This chapter covers the experience of being a library blogger. Lucas Maxwell will provide tips on which platforms to use, different topics to cover, and how to effectively promote your blog. He will also discuss the professional and social benefits of blogging and how to involve students in the blogging process. Lucas will also provide a short overview of his blogging story, what inspired him to get started and why he continues to blog on a weekly basis.
Author Biography
Lucas Maxwell
Lucas Maxwell has been working with teens in libraries for close to ten years. Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, he spent five years as a teen services librarian. He then moved to the UK and became a high school librarian at Glenthorne High School in South London. In 2017 the School Library Association named him the UK’s School Librarian of the Year. He lives in southeast England and writes for the website Book Riot and School Library Journal in his spare time.
