Took A Break For A Bit

The holidays have been a nice break from the craziness of school and work, but I have been delinquent in all my blogs. I was able to transfer my wordpress blog from my library science class to an edublog but it is still in need of major work and it seems that it would make the most sense for these two blogs to be merged. I will look into this over the next few weeks.

Over in the Kept-up Academic Librarian, there was a recent post on instructors and students friending each other on Facebook and the new challenges and opportunities this application and interaction presents to both communities. Although the article is referring to teachers (and not librarians), some of the concerns can be applicable to librarians. The article is not particularly scholarly or rich with informative content but it raises some valid questions that I have been wondering about for myself. For example, how will I manage my personal facebook account with having a professional presence? I have a friend who informed me that I could make lists of my friends and then customize the level of viewability friends within these lists could have with my other friends. So perhaps this is an appropriate route. I still need to explore it and see how it would actually play out.