The Chronicle: Career Network | Where are the bodies buried?

Ever wonder if you should tell the new librarian all the details concerning library politics? Perhaps that deep dark reason as to why Tech Services and Reference doesn't get along--(you know the sordid tale involving water balloons and Chippendale dancers)... Well--before you do you may want to read this suggestion from Ms. Mentor, over at the Chronicle of Higher Education, and how to handle power politics and new recruits.

The Chronicle: Career Network: 11/02/2004: Q: "Because I've paid attention to power politics, I know which colleagues are decent and helpful, and which ones are dishonest, even dangerous. Should I share those stories with more vulnerable, recently arrived colleagues, on the theory that they deserve to know where the bodies are buried? Or is that unprofessional?
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A: Ah, a question dear to Ms. Mentor's heart. What, indeed, do we owe the new and the naïve? Should we spew what we know and risk being pushy, disloyal, or unsporting? Or do we keep a demure silence, freeing the young to learn about minefields and treachery on their own? ..."