Much bad news this week. Our Library doesn't allow staff to create or write blogs, however we can read them and post to them. This is in part due to regulations that state that any staff produced information must be housed on city computers. This is to avoid the possibility of someone hacking into our library's MySpace page, or our library's Learning 2.0 blog and putting up child pornography or something. If that were to happen we would have a history on our own computers showing that our site never had that kind of information and we wouldn't be dragged through quite as much mud. After yesterday's discussion with my boss, I believe that even this "under the radar" blog is in violation of this kind of policy.
In my defense I've tried hard not to brand this blog with my employer's logo or name, I've made it non-searchable so only those that know the URL can find it, and I've only posted to it off city time. However I'm sorry to say I think I'm going to have to bring this blog to an end.
I know there are only a few of you who subscribe to this blog and I'd like to thank you for your encouragement and energy. Library employees; you have access to it on Staff Source; for the others who are interested I'll keep you on my email list for postings.
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I can't believe how sad this news is. Our users are in cyberspace, and we need to be able to serve them. This blog helped in that regard. Please keep me in touch with what you're doing.
*wipes*tears*
I deeply hope you will not delete this blog, even if it must go dormant. (I want to type "dormant, for now." Surely, surely, it could revive in the future!?)
If you must, please tell me before you do so, so I can archive the information for myself!
Liz, That might be an idea to keep it alive but dormant until something else can be done. I certainly won't delete it without putting the info in some other format.
Or now that I think about it, I wrote these blog posts so that library staff would read and try out library 2.0 technologies. It might be time to refresh those posts anyway and take a new approach, maybe more formal training or some other format.
Thanks for your comments Liz.
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