I'm in shock.

Long time readers may recall that this time last year I was tasked with starting a blog that would find fun/weird things from around the web and be a 'fun' side to the library that people could read or become fans of on Facebook. The blog is a year old next week and part of my appraisal was to report on the experience at our board meeting this morning.

I put together five pages of report and statistics and so on and seem to have persuaded them to let us go on for another year at least.

But the shock came in a revelation that the University Librarian made.

Through the year there's been a reasonably regular contributor with a Scottish sounding name who's only occasionally wound me up somewhat with his pernickty comments. On the whole I've just been glad that someone's been taking an interest and contributing items as well as comments. But I'm really glad my responses were polite.

Yes, you've seen it coming way before I did. It turns out that the Scot (who for some reason I'd vaguely thought came from a university there), is in fact my own bosses' boss, the Head.

Oh dear. Apparently my face was a picture when he owned up to this and several others were quite surprised/shocked/appalled as well.

I don't know if I'm disappointed our 'fan' isn't really someone "out there" whom we've engaged with; pleased that he was taking an interest; humiliated by the whole experience. It's certainly a lesson learned and I hope it doesn't put me off bothering with the thing...