The Atlanta Booklover’s Blog is an experiment in trying to make it a bit easier for fellow booklovers to share information about their love of reading.
Blog entries are posted by employees of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library’s Peachtree Branch and Ponce de Leon Branch, but the blog is not sponsored by the library system. The library system’s blog is What’s New at AFPLS?
Comments to postings at the Atlanta Booklover’s Blog, “book culture alerts, ” and links to online resources for bibliophiles are invited from booklovers everywhere; and comments and event alerts from patrons of the Ponce branch are especially welcome.
To respond to a particular blogpost, click on the COMMENTS link at the end of that blogpost (or, if your comment is the first one, click on the LEAVE A COMMENT link). Usually by the following day, your comment will be appended to the entry; you and others can read your comment by clicking on the COMMENTS link.
I was at the library the other day picking up books on hold for me when I noticed a handout about the Atlanta Booklover’s Blog. I asked the Librarian who was checking me out “How did the blog know that Ponce was the Library I went to because it always tells me about the new books that have arrived here.” He said the Blog was written at Ponce and he was the Blogmaster!!
I really love this blog and read it all the time and it makes me proud that our local branch it taking the lead in putting together such an excellent resource for those of us who love to read. I hope it will expand city wide so that readers at other branches can have access to its general content (e.g. Booklovers Toolbox,Bookish Quotes, etc) and also see what is new at their own local libraries.
So, Thank you, Thank you Mr. Blogmaster and the Ponce Library staff – this blog and the Internet based book hold system are two of my favorite things about living in Atlanta. Now I am off to reserve a book I just read about here!
What a great idea! We need something like this to unite the many booklovers in our neighborhood. I will be reading regularly.