"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
– Ben Franklin
My brother used to have this quote hanging on the wall in his room when we were growing up. As he wanted to be a writer (which I’m happy to say that he is), it was a reminder to keep working on his craft and create stories and novels worth reading. It’s a writer’s version of Ranganathan’s law of “save the time of the reader” by working hard to make it worthy of the reader’s attention and effort.
I’d like to think that I have written things worth reading over the last five years I’ve had this blog. I’m appreciative of the compliments I’ve received and reports of post sharing within various workplaces. It’s been crazy look at the WordPress dashboard and see readers from all over the world in addition to pingbacks in different languages. It really speaks volumes about the power of the internet as a platform.
This isn’t a “so long and thanks for all the fish” post, but a signal in a shift in gears. I picked that Franklin quote for both parts: writing and doing. The writing period is not completely past me, but with the new job I have shifted into the do things portion of the quote. I’m in a place where I can channel my creative energies so as to create, develop, and implement ideas and concepts for the library. When I get home these days, writing is the last thing on my mind (and I have some half finished drafts to prove it).
In closing, I had typed out a rant about the current state of librarian blogosphere in which I went on at great lengths. I took a long look at it before erasing it; the whole thing just depressed the hell out of me. Since it would eclipse everything above it, I just left it out.
This blog isn’t dead, just dormant. If you need me, I’m still on Twitter.
Ciao.
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