Blogger

• Customisable themes, and some options for page layout.

• Easy to use interface (less functionality than Wordpress)

• Provides a range of useful statistics

• You need to have/set-up a Google Account (but many people will have one already)

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Wordpress

• A lot of open source themes

• Can customise design with fonts and css sheets (make it look more like your library website if you want to)

• Can customise blog with widgets

• Very good usage data and statistics

• Set-up users with different rights (useful for team blogging)

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Tumblr

• Different kinds of post for different media (text, photo, audio, video, quote, link, chat)

• Simple interface, though fewer features (no stats, no native comments feature)

• Social/community aspect – like, reblog, follow

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Posterous

• Very easy set up

• Less functionality than other platforms.

• Can post text and photos by email

• Limited scope for layout via email posting but additional editing is possible through browser

• Mobile app allows you to post on the go.

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