{"id":7876,"date":"2010-02-01T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7876"},"modified":"2010-02-01T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T14:14:00","slug":"stepping-back-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/02\/01\/stepping-back-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Stepping Back a Little&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/98010-5-x-6-Open_Will-Return-w-Clock-side-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7889\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/98010-5-x-6-Open_Will-Return-w-Clock-side-1-869x1024.jpg\" alt=\"98010 5 x 6 Open_Will Return w Clock side 1\" width=\"313\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/98010-5-x-6-Open_Will-Return-w-Clock-side-1-869x1024.jpg 869w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/98010-5-x-6-Open_Will-Return-w-Clock-side-1-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/02\/98010-5-x-6-Open_Will-Return-w-Clock-side-1.jpg 1518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been around just a little over five months and have put up well over 400 posts.<\/p>\n<p>However, most of that effort has fallen to just a handful of people, and, given the particularly heavy demands this semester upon the daily administrators, this may be a good time to step back a little to let our new byline correspondents and our guest bloggers take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Since starting out last August, we&#8217;ve put up posts at the average rate of about three a day.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve also added (besides Joe Adamson and me) <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 byline correspondents<\/a>, as well as another handful of regular guest bloggers &#8212; not to mention an online <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/articles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frye journal<\/a> and the truly remarkable (and always expanding) <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/library\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denham Library<\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re pleased to say that the comments we&#8217;ve received slightly outpace the posts we&#8217;ve put up so far. We&#8217;re therefore curious to know what the blog might look like if we let our occasional contributors become the main source of new material.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we&#8217;re working very hard behind the scenes to add an extensive audio\/visual Frye collection to the library, which will take some time pull together and convert into digital format.\u00a0 In fact, the project as a whole will probably stretch out into the summer.\u00a0 But, once this remarkable material is available, it will provide a new dimension to the resources already available.\u00a0 Beyond that, we are also planning to organize study and resource material for students and teachers alike.\u00a0 In other words, there&#8217;s still much more we intend to do.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re here.\u00a0 We&#8217;re for real.\u00a0 So while you may not see original posts from us on quite so regular a basis, we are hoping to see more of them from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been around just a little over five months and have put up well over 400 posts. 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