With the impending release of the final Harry Potter book this weekend, yesterday the New York Times posted the questions “who was your Harry Potter? what were your favorite books when you were a kid?” on their blog, and they’ve already received more than 1000 responses from readers. See: http://news.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/19/who-was-your-harry-potter/

For those of you out there with library blogs, “who was your Harry Potter?” sounds like a great question to ask your library users on your blog. Based on the NYTimes response, the question seems likely to drum up a lot of interest among your readers.

And on a personal note – what were your favorite books when you were younger? Mine was Nancy Drew (ironically – not available at my public library in the 1960s b/c series books were not seen as suitable for public library collections back then – nice to know that times have changed in public libraries!).