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The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

What Does This Mean to Me, Laura? » Want a better presence online? Get over yourself

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This, so, so this.

An effective online presence really comes down to not putting one’s ego first.  That could be the collective ego of the library as an institution,  the ego of the director, the ego of the board of trustees, or the ego of that territorial librarian who controls the library’s online content with an iron fist.  As soon as any person or entity’s ego overrides the need of the online patron, the library, as a whole, loses.