Libraries and other organisations might consider using free blogging tools such as Blogspot or Wordpress because they're free, simple to use, and can be updated from anywhere in the world, and by anyone with the login details, which is great for people who like to work from different computers, or from home. They're also web-based, which means that there's no software to beg your IT department to install on your work computer.
Of course, there are downsides. While there are dozens of themes available on Blogspot, the basic layout of any pages created on them look pretty much the same, and the format offered by Blogspot is more suited to personal blogs because of its 'scrolling style', and while it would be possible, it would be colossally time consuming to create a searchable OPAC.
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