The Petoskey News Review (PNR) provides space twice a month for a library column. It’s really more of a guest editorial of about 600 words. The PNR’s coverage is throughout many library districts. Petoskey, Charlevoix, and Boyne City directors rotate the writing duty. Once in a while we have a guest librarian from one of the other neighboring libraries take one of the columns. The librarians decide up front what topics to write about, to keep us from overlap. We have written about a wide variety of topics – from censorship and selection – to volunteerism and professionalism – to programs and books. We have been doing this for about a year and it seems to work out very well. Lots of good feedback from our patrons. If you go to the Petoskey News website and search for library guest commentary – quite a few of them will pop up. Valerie Meyerson, Library Director Petoskey District Library 231.758.3120 Please think about the environment before printing this message. From: michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org] On Behalf Of Kimberly Young via Michlib-l Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 11:26 AM To: Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org> Subject: [Michlib-l] Newspaper Columns Hello to all of you! I have been in a conversation with the editor of our local paper on the idea of library column. I was wondering if any other libraries are doing this sort of thing and if you are willing to share your experiences with reference to the following: 1. Frequency? 2. Topics covered? 3. Who writes? Samples would be greatly appreciated! Thank you in advance for your time! Kimberly Young Library Director Houghton Lake Public Library 4431 W Houghton Lake Drive Houghton Lake, MI 48629 989-366-9230 kyoung@hlpl.org<mailto:kyoung@hlpl.org>