Why Auckland Libraries is mostly off Twitter today

"What you hear
What you see
Ain't always what's it's s'posed, to be..."
- Misty Frequencies by Che Fu


The day is a little bit crazy, and certainly nothing is as it's supposed to be right now.

In light of the explosions that took place during the Boston Marathon, our Auckland Libraries tweetstream will keep the channel clear for today. We will, of course, respond to queries and feedback as needed.

I feel that it is not the time to be all about us. It is not the time to tell people what events they should come and see, what books to read, what blog posts we've written lately, or which community libraries to visit. Even less is it the appropriate time to be my usual fangirl squeeing self about all things geeky. At a time when people are needing updates, and to contact family and friends, and to make sense of the day's events, I feel like anything we have to say today on Twitter would only get in the way of that.

Take care of each other, people.

Boston, you are in my thoughts.
 - tosca