I have enjoyed and learned a lot from this exercise. Most basically, it  has helped me in word processing ( I do not use it much in my library work, so the mechanics of the blog were relatively challenging to me at the beginning.) Writing book reviews has been a great joy, it has improved my critical skills and forced me to consciously evaluate the quality and content of my creations throughout various revisions. The information about review sites, booklists, critical sites was extremely valuable and helped break me out of the usual places I go to find information about media. Reading other librarian's blogs was a real eye opener --how differently we all view and respond to the same question! Just when I thought I had a most ideal response to a question, I read somebody else's blog which had an equally legitimate, and completely different answer -- this really has expanded my knowledge and added to my respect for my colleagues. It has also forced me to think about divergent ways to learn and create and how important these are to younger readers who are growing up in an almost 180 degree different learning environment from the one I experienced . Although we all have a structurally similar brain,  our view of the world, our methods of creating and disseminating information, the very structure of our thoughts has been completely transformed by the computer- this is the most basic difference among  the generations at this time and that revelation is one of the keys to providing excellent customer service.