Posts Tagged ‘ Policies ’

Flickr – the other side of social networking

November 15, 2007
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Flickr – the other side of social networking

This week has been a bizarre, if not ironic, clash of work and personal life. I love social networking sites, Facebook, Myspace, Flickr etc. In fact I teach my coworkers and patrons at the Library about them. I present to other Librarians about them and why they should do them. I spent a lot of my personal time on Flickr and blogs. I have a pro Flickr account, but a couple of weeks ago I made the choice to move a LOT of my pictures to private due to some weird comments and emails. Then Monday Robin points me towards this article about Library Flickr accounts and polices regarding them. I read it I think about my Library and our policy and how I will write it the policy, becuase that’s my job. I think about what I’ll do if someone “favorites’ a picture of child and when I look at their pictures or profile it seems inappropriate to me. How will I write a policy that address freedom of speech and expressions and interests of the individuals and at the same time protects the children and patrons of my Library. I’ve been roughing this all out in my head

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Myspace Guidelines

September 7, 2007
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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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