Banned Library Turns Two

Two years ago today, I published my first real post to this blog, How to Deal With an Unruly Patron.  You can read it, but I would not recommend it.  It's mostly the product of an unruly mind expressing itself and trying to make somebody, anybody laugh.

Not that I have gotten any better, but at least there is a little more focus these days.

Anyway, I'll keep this short.  Thank you everyone who has read this blog.  Thank you for sticking with it when I stopped updating for a time.  Thank you for sticking with it, even through my rants and raves.  Thank you for reading.  You can never know how much it means to me that you do.

If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, let me know below, on Twitter, on Facebook, on Tumblr, on Google+ or by emailing me.  Carrier pigeons or owl also accepted, if you can find me.

Also, this is not today's only post.  Dave's wedding will be up later tonight.  And if I may say so... I'm not saying anything.

And yes, Mom, I will try to keep the swears to a minimum.  

Banned Library Blog Anniversary

I haven't read this.

Today celebrates the day I wrote and published the first post for the Banned Library, How to Deal with an Unruly Patron.  Well, the first post was this video filler, but the patron one was the kicker, the idea starter, the meat to my library sam'mich.  The site has changed over the past year, from one-note top ten list style articles to a commentary on the news and what-not, and I feel that it has grown organically.

I want to thank you all for reading this sad little bit of rambling.  I want everyone who sees this to know that by reading this and responding you have kept me sane and in a job.  Without this vent to let out the pressure, I may have quit being a librarian months ago and right now arguing with some grandpa over whether or not his salad is "too cold."  Well, the blog and a mountain of debt, but you guys are awesome!

Okay, enough of this crap.  Thanks for reading, here's looking to another year, who let the dogs out, bark bark, where's the beef?  Hit the jump for links to my most read articles and some really boring statistics for the site.

Top 5 articles ever read on the site:
5 Reasons Libraries Should Not Use Ebooks... Yet.
How to Get Banned From a Library
5 Ways to Prevent Cabin Fever
Used eBook Store? Kindle Lending Club
6 Library Holiday Party Games

Total amount of views as of 8:00 this morning: 30,661

Total amount of posts: 414

Average words per post: Um, math.  More than 5.

Average reading level:  apple

AR Points for blog: 0-15000, I'm working on it.

Post with the most amount of views: 5 Reasons Libraries Should Not Use Ebooks... Yet. 2,270 views

Post with the least amount of views: I don't care to think about that

Average daily view count:  115-150ish

Biggest Traffic Source: Twitter

Followers on Twitter as of this writing: 444

Bots as followers on Twitter: Don't care, numbers are numbers.... I mean... I love talking to you guys... heh...

Countries that viewed the most: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany

Oddest country to view me: Nepal.  Who do I know in Nepal?  

Total money Google and Amazon ads claim I have earned: $9.61

Total money my bank account claims I have earned: $0.03 (to check my account)

Top reasons for continuing to use ads: Filler and copyright-free images

Shape my Overall Statistics graph most resembles: Mt. Everest... which is in Nepal, clever girl.

Biggest WOW moment of the blog:  Mentioned in the NYPL blog for this post.  That really made this little Mississippi boy's year.  Whoever out there reads my drivel, thanks and I hope you didn't get fired for it.

All stats from blogger statistics unless I made them up.  I didn't apply Google Anyalytics until April or so, and the numbers are way sadder anyway as they give an "accurate" view.