What do we do if our wider organisation's IT department has blocked our access to social media sites?

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I'm a fangirl who spends far too much time online with her life a finger tap away from overtweeting, and I have opinions and feels and thoughts about libraries and social media. Hopefully, this is useful to some of you. Tonight's post is a relatively quick one. So let's get to it.

Query: What do we do if our wider organisation's IT department has blocked our access to social media sites?

Short answer: Libraries got swag. Libraries got game. So wield it. Use it. Hold your IT department accountable to the wider organisation's digital strategy. In short - do your job, and show them why they need to do theirs.


As a manager, how can I support our library staff who use social media on our behalf?

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As usual I've been slack at updating this blog. Because life is what happens when you're busy making other plans :/ The road to hell is paved with good intentions, right, and I bet most of them are mine. So here I am with an offering of sorts after having been absent for so long. An offering that will, hopefully, be useful to somebody. I am not an expert on social media in libraries. I don't consider myself an expert in much of anything except eating chocolate, and Jensen Ackles. (And if I imagine the two together that's nobody's business but mine and the interwebs). And none of what I talk about here is a one size fits all thing. So if you're okay with that, let's rock on with our bad selves.