Perhaps that should be pacing? #blogjune has officially started and from our experience last year we all know this is a marathon and not a sprint! So pace yourselves bloggers, keep some in your reserves for those busy days, those uninspiring days and those icy days where its too cold to type.

This year looks bigger and better than ever – more than doubling the participating bloggers from last year to 75+ with a broad Australia and New Zealand bloggers and lots of brand new peeps to the blogging scene! That’s 2250+ blogposts to read this month! So to help everyone a long a little Libraries Interact this year will again provide a daily round up of the #blogjune mayhem…starting now!

As the mercury rises a little less each day, and even the sun stays tucked in bed longer it seems many librarians are taking these cooler months as an opportunity to prioritise, refocus and reconsider their life balance. It seems many librarians are overcommited and insanely busy with several discussions on needing to prioritise, refocus, reconsider work life balance such as Rien d’Important and Virtually a Librarian.

Many took the opportunity to introduce themselves, declare the start of #blogjune and give a taste for what the month may hold – Discourse Analysis Overdose promises us a superlative a day, With great power…comes a great GN collection will focus on all things graphic novels and video games in libraries (yay!), Read, watch, play and participate promises to takes us on a world tour of thirty libraries in thirty days and Bun Toting Librarian promises a daily musical challenge!

Some started with a bang such as The Adventures of HappyLibraryKat with the er…cleaning of her desk?! But my it does sparkle so! Others had us considering more serious things – the boundaries between our digital and offline selves, the blending of our professional and personal lives. And then there were the really serious library matters to focus on – mobile learning and the future of information literacy, the challenges of the overlapping of knowledge management and library roles and the ever provoking Mal Booth on how to select a hashtag.

The most impressive contribution to day 1 of #blogjune though I think has to go to @newgradlib who not only blogged (albeit a day early) but also commented on what seemed to be almost all of the first day postings! You win a…hmmm…an immunity pin to be used (Masterchef style) on any blogging day in June as a day’s reprieve from the chaos.

And to finish off the day (as it will take you a full day to read all the day’s posts in full…) I highly recommend heading over to see Ari the tiny koala from Angels Have the Phonebox & the cute puppy photo at Ruminations and close with a smile, a sigh and an awwww