The Library has had a Myspace page since our Learning 2.0 program. Part of the duties for my new position is to create goals and guidelines for all of the Library’s social networking sites. When I started writing the Myspace Guidelines I was surprised to find despite the proliferation of Libraries with Myspace pages, I could find only one with a policy. The Guidelines have been approved and MRRL’s Myspace page is official! The administrator of the Library’s Myspace page will follow these guidelines in addition to the Library’s Public Service Policies Purpose • Connect with teens, authors and pertinent adults • Promote library programs, events and services through blogging and bulletins Content • Information about library programs, events and services • Materials owned by the library • Information about authors and their works • Links to other webpage. As a social networking site, links will be made to pages created by people outside the Library; the Library has no control over the content of those pages. Comments • All comments will be held for approval by the administrator • Comments deemed inappropriate for a public space will not be approved • Comments containing html that may interfere with the
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Control is an Illusion You Need to Let Go
The issue of control comes up over and over again when we talk about the online world. It recently it came up at Internet Librarian in many different ways, including: How do I stop a staff member from wasting time on Facebook? How do we control what staff are saying online? Management wants everything posted online (Twitter, Facebook, blogs etc) to go through PR. We don’t want employees to be able to access social networking sites? What about privacy? We can’t allow just anyone to post a comment without approving it first. How do we know a student is who they say they are? I have answers to all of these questions, but these questions aren’t what this is about, what they represent is, control. Or the illusion of control. The desire for control comes from fear. Fear of change, of the unknown, of doing things differently, of a situation not created by us, of taking risks. It is human nature to fear these things, it’s how we’ve survived. So is adaptation and times are changing, just as they always do, and we need to adapt. In the internet age your image/brand no longer belongs to you. It belongs to
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