You Like Us, You Really Like Us

I wish that I could say that we at the library are above letting a little praise go to our heads, but we're only human, and we're here to serve you, so when we know you're happy with our services, well, it makes us smile (to say the very least). We love our jobs, but it isn't always easy to know how to judge our work. We depend on you, the library user, to provide us with feedback. In this way we're very much like beauty queens and Olympic gymnasts, it doesn't matter how well we think we did, what matters is what the judges - in this case, you - think (thankfully, unlike the Miss Americas and Shawn Johnsons of the world, we are not required to be judged on our work while wearing bathing suits or body-conscious leotards).

Why do I mention this? Well, we have been trying to add some Web 2.0 technology to our service offerings as another way of connecting with you, dear user, when you're online wherever you are: on a laptop in Panera, on your phone in a store, or even using one of our computers here at the library. We have a Meebo so you can chat with us (username: alsiplibraryref), a Flickr account so you can see what goes on here, this blog so we can ramble on & on, and a Twitter account because, well, why not! The last one is a lot of fun for us, and we recently heard that you're liking it, too, thanks to a patron who was happy to share with us. Not only are we glad that you're finding us online, but we're glad that you're telling us as much!

And so we would just like to thank you for sharing with us. We'd love to hear more, so please let us know what we are (or are not) doing right, and as always, thanks for stopping by - really, thank you.