1. Discovering your staff’s passions 2. Incorporating blogs into your library website 3. Developing outreach projects Objectives :

Objective 1: Discovering staff passions Sit down with each staff individually and ask them: What are you passionate about? Examples: knitting, baking, chess, reading comics, helping people... Encourage them to share their passions with the community by creating short blogs one a month or one every two months

Objective 2: Incorporating blogs into the library website Introduce blogging to your staff: if they are not familiar get a youth in the community/a relative /a volunteer working at the library to do a short session on blogging. Their presentation could include: a) What is blogging? b)How its used? c)How to create one? d)Examples of blogs/links from the internet. e) A hands on activity to create a short blog Get each staff to write a short blog about the topic they are passionate about Incorporate these on the library website

Objective 3: Developing outreach projects For a knitting/baking/crafts blog target your senior population. Get them to form a group and allow them to use a room in the library to engage in knitting projects. No need for staff involvement other that setting up and checking every now and then Once projects are completed donate these to different community or global charities This will give seniors something to do and make them feel they are contributing to the community/society

Conclusions: With tapping into passions within your staff you save money outsourcing library programs Hopefully it will make it an enjoyable part of their job Not all staff members have to contribute if they do not feel comfortable with the idea May lead into creating stronger partnerships with the community And will certainly help incorporate web2.0 tools within the ever evolving public library