An easy flight west again to San Jose's Dr. King Library and San Jose State University on whose campus we hope to meet a famous peregrine falcon family. "Does this library have a blog," asks Zhar. "There are several branch blogs on this library's tree: Almaden and Seventrees. I expect every branch will have one, once library administration has come up with a design template, guidelines for content, a plan for sharing skills and responsibility for weekly postings." This sort of complicated planning always delights a byzantine bird. "The SJLibrary.org website," I explain, "is very complex because it provides information about two different entities: a public library and a university library. Imagine two trees grafted together which still branch out to produce different fruit." (Oops, Zhar is looking hungry again.) "The website is shared wood, but blogs could be the several sorts of fruit, satisfying very different customer needs." "Immediate needs," murmurs, Zhar, eyeing a campus fig tree. "Blogs are a comfortable way of making friends," I continue, ignoring his hint. " I suppose it's a question of deciding which communities of friends a library wants to attract. There could be a blog for seniors (sort-lived humans have serious problems with aging), for children (Conroy Cougar can earn his keep), for business-minded city citizens, for parents who never have enough time or resources, and a blog to assist students find their library footing, and so on." "I might have an idea, too," suggests Zhar, "if I just munch a fig or two." Well, that's a firebird's genetic relationship to a kitchen stove for you.
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