Email, Social Media Ukase @ the Salt Lake City Public Library

That would be sense 2 of the word.

Haven't been able to access the library's webpage this morning.

Clampdown on free speech at Salt Lake City Library? (Salt Lake Tribune, 10/18/2011)

Excerpt:   A just-launched crackdown on any opinionated email — and on criticism of management expressed via social media — has some veteran librarians fearing for their jobs and a chorus of others crying censorship.

Now, for the first time since controversy enveloped Director Beth Elder last year, the library’s nonprofit fundraising arm, Friends of the Library [ditto with the access thing], is openly questioning the library’s direction and its “chronic problems.”

In recent days, the past president of the Utah Library Association was placed on administrative leave for challenging new restrictions placed on all-staff email. Another librarian was forced to delete a Facebook post critical of Elder. Others were scolded in private meetings called by Elder’s administrative team.

And, according to several sources at the award-winning library, supervisors have told staffers they will sift through individual email accounts to look for any proof of insubordination and any criticism of library leadership or its policies.

Related posts:
Continued turmoil at library.  (4/30/2011)
Unhappy employees air grievances.  (3/15/2011)
'Boomeranging twist' at Salt Lake City Public Library.  (1/18/2011)
Management shake-up at library.  (1/3/2011)