This week at ACL

Our new library hours are to be officially announced this week. I am wondering how the public is going to take this change. I am sure we will have the people who will be very upset and very vocal about the change in hours. Hopefully everyone will understand that with the budget cuts from the state there wasn't much we could do, and that this change may not be the last of the changes for the library. I am hoping that our system can start doing more with our catalog to encourage people to read and keep using their libraries. Make it more exciting for them as we won't be open as much, but they can keep up with what is happening online, find new books online, request them online for pickup.. maybe an Anoka County Blog? Anoka County is on Twitter but it is not being used to it's full potential in my opinion. Come on Anoka County, lets use the tools we have available and not make the hours we are open be a bad thing, lets turn it into a great time to experiment with all library 2.0 'things' that are at our fingertips.