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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Who Are you? Who? Who?

Yes, you! Who are sitting at your computer reading this very text!

Inquiring minds want to know!

First, we want you to know that the three of us who post here each week, enjoy it thoroughly. Though I must confess … I didn’t believe. I didn't think anyone would read this. I never accepted the ‘if you build it they will come’ philosophy. I suppose, that makes me generally a pessimist at heart.

Still, I like to write and usually do not have time. I'm used to no one reading my writing. And I still cling to a fantasy that some day I will become a well known fiction writer and will retire in luxury from royalties. I suppose now I’m a pessimist with an active imagination.

When I committed to writing once a week, I believed it would be a fun, slight diversion that certainly wouldn’t hurt. But you’ve surprised me. First, the numbers reading this blog were 500-600 hundred. I secretly wondered if this really represented only a half dozen of us, continually peeking in to see if anything was happening.

Then … it grew.

We puzzled over this. We decided the statistics MUST be wrong. We experimented and checked, but they don’t seem to be wrong. So far this month, our statistics say that over 1600 times human eyes have looked at this page.

Wow.

Thank you.

Is this really possible?

If you are reading this, here is our message in a bottle, our request: comment, e-mail, send a carrier pigeon, but let us know you are real and reading this.

In the words of The Who (they’ll be performing in Connecticut next week):

Well, who are you?
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
I really wanna know
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)
'Cause I really wanna know
(Who are you? Who, who, who, who?)

Who's @ your Library?

With over 1100 biographies at the library, you might be surprised!

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posted by Su

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Comments

Mercedes said, on Oct. 23 at 12:41PM
Wow! Congratulations on all the great numbers! Its a lot of fun reading what you have to say. Keep up the good work! (You know who I am :)

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library lady said, on Oct. 29 at 5:23AM
I'm a collection development librarian from St. Louis who's reading your blog after the link appeared in a Publib thread. I love the Who reference--Who has a special place in our hearts ever since an attempt at an automated authority file clean-up changed all our author catalog entries for Who into the World Health Oraganization!

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M said, on Nov. 2 at 6:44PM
Libraries can be the heart of the community -- SBL is certainly the heart of Columbia! Warm, friendly, caring, fun, and, best of all, filled with the books/movies/newspapers/magazines/DVDs/computers.... Please know how much you are appreciated.