Comments on: Think Personally, Act Professionally http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=73 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:31:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: librarybob http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-248 librarybob Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:18:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=73#comment-248 I tend to think that a "profession" doesn't stop when one walks out the door. A professional can't, in my view, cleanly separate the personal and the professional. To think that "professional" occurs only at work is to gravely mistake what "professing" is all about ... it is having a point of view that exists outside the work environment and interprets the world 24/7. <br /><br />I'm concerned when I see library boards, blogs, and such only being active during work hours. I tend to think that a “profession” doesn’t stop when one walks out the door. A professional can’t, in my view, cleanly separate the personal and the professional. To think that “professional” occurs only at work is to gravely mistake what “professing” is all about … it is having a point of view that exists outside the work environment and interprets the world 24/7.

I’m concerned when I see library boards, blogs, and such only being active during work hours.

]]> By: Dorothea http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=73&cpage=1#comment-247 Dorothea Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:56:00 +0000 http://www.lisjobs.com/blog/?p=73#comment-247 Most of the stuff that lives behind friendslocks in my LJ isn't terrifically personal -- it's just stuff that fails the "would I be okay with my colleagues seeing this?" test. Most of the stuff that lives behind friendslocks in my LJ isn’t terrifically personal — it’s just stuff that fails the “would I be okay with my colleagues seeing this?” test.

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