OK, not long before the new library blog was causing trouble. The point of it is to 'engage' students and provide the possibility of dialogue with library related stuff/staff without being too formal.

So the first suggested link that I get, I take a look at and decide to use. But it is a bit bizarre.

Deep unhappiness in certain quarters that this maybe presenting the university/library in a bad light and what if the powers that be came across it?

One deputation to persuade me to remove it, then their head coming to see me to suggest the same. While not the very first in line to defend censorship (if I really didn't like a suggestion I'd not post it!), it seemed particularly churlish to refuse the first bit of 'engagement' and 'dialogue' that had happened. Of course, with hindsight I might have waited a week or two till the blog was more settled.

Anyway, after some forty minutes of hassle at the end of a long day when I really couldn't face it and had an appointment elsewhere that was now being eaten into, I said I'd sleep on it and see the head of the library in the morning. If he wants me to remove it (and as his deputy said, being a bit staid, it's likely), it'll go. Then I'll just need to decide whether I want to keep going with the thing.

In the meantime, thank goodness this blog is anonymous and unknown in these quarters.