February is Library Lovers Month, a time for everyone to recognize the value of libraries and to work to assure that the nation's libraries will continue to serve.

I’m here to tell you that if you’re a content creator and you’re sleeping on your library system that you are missing out on one of the most useful resources in your arsenal that costs you literally nothing.

So sorry for the unexpected hiatus, but as you’ll learn in this post the last several months have been consumed with a lot of work. This is a long one, so be prepared to take a few minutes to get through it. And at the end of it all, I hope you’ll share your thoughts or questions with me. Thanks for reading!

One thing I’d like to do for my readers and followers is to regularly share content from outlets and blogs that I follow and believe in. Many of these sources receive daily or weekly visits from me and have helped me grow my knowledge in so many different areas. Here are my recommendations for required reading this week.