Blog management as the new facet of rejuvenated library management in web 2.0 era: a live managerial experience with the library blog at library, Kendriya Vidyalaya, no.1, Narimedu, Madurai

Customer is the king in any profession and so are our library users. Librarians have started striving all the ways and means, utilizing all the available formats and forms and using all channels of communication in fulfilling the information needs of library users – who are techno savvy in this modern web era. The tools of web 2.0- library 2.0- have come handy to LIS professionals to reach the wider online users easily. Reaching library users with the required information or a note on the information at their desktops have become feasible due to the comprehensive technological applications available in this information superhighway. Blogs are the best vehicles for online information dissemination. Blogs facilitate keeping the library web pages interactive and attractive. Managing the blogs involve a) general managerial functions like planning, organising, staffing, directing , co-ordinating and reporting and b) technical management functions like post management, page management and link management. This paper attempts to depict the various aspects of library blog management at wordpress domain – a free web hosting –cum-weblog software. It elaborates multi-faceted components of library blog management – layout management, content management, home page management, web 2.0 tools incorporation management, interactive management, Export-Import management, user survey management, widget management etc. This paper mirrors the blog management experience of the authors in creating and maintaining the library blog at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Narimedu, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India – the blog which has got more than 10,66,000 online users as on 27/04/2013