My MLIS school is in the middle of a director search. Because of employment laws and such we can't talk about the individual candidates, I understand the privacy concerns. However, a fellow student with a blog (dangerous objects these blogs) had been blogging about her impressions of the directorial candidates (without naming names or institutions or anything). I felt she was being discreet (maybe other then naming her school - but I've probably slipped and done that in tweets - oops). Personally I don't have time or money to go and sit in on the candidates speaches and forums and such and was happy a friend was blogging about it. I'm close enough to graduation I don't feel a huge stake in this - but I'm still curious and concerned and would like to stay informed.
She was asked to yank her posts. Then we all got this email:
this email is to remind you about the confidential nature of the Directors Search process. If you are blogging, twittering, facebooking or using other social software to formally/informally report, or comment on the candidate visits, you must stop and delete all postings immediately. When such discussions and statements are posted on a blog or on any other web software, they are considered published, and therefore are stripped of their confidentiality. As result, such postings jeopardize the integrity of the search process, and must stop.
The student did take down her posting in compliance with the school policy which is pretty much the only action she could take. I am starting to get frustrated with administrations all around.
Oh well, back to my regularly scheduled end of semester chaos.
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