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Librarian Fired for Reporting Child Porn Web Surfing, but Questions Linger

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Chronicles of Dissent reports the story of librarian Brenda Biesterfeld, who says she was fired after alerting authorities that a patron was viewing child pornography on library computers. Apparently she notified her supervisor (Hill) who told her merely to give the patron a warning, and not to notify the police. Biesterfeld notified the policy anyway, […]

Outsourcing Libraries

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Chronicles of Dissent points to this troubling story of a county in Oregon that is outsourcing the operation of their (formerly public) libraries to Library Systems and Services (LSSI), a private, for-profit company. LSSI tries to downplay any affect privitizing the institution of the library might have:
“The average citizen, when they walk into the library, […]

Wiki of State Laws on the Confidentiality of Library Records

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Paul Neuhaus, a reference librarian at Santa Clara University, has assembled a wiki of state laws on the confidentiality of library records. This is a great resource providing instant access to the relevant statutes, such as New York’s:
New York State Statutes
Section 4509. Library [fig 1] records.
Library records, [fig 1] which contain names or other personally […]

A Bit More on Libraries, Privacy, and Intellectual Freedom

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Continuing the theme of libraries, privacy, and intellectual freedom from a few weeks ago, two items popped up in my blogroll today:

Wired’s Threat Level tells an incredible story about the plight of two Connecticut librarians who received national security letters and the requisite gag orders. (And did you know that the reauthorized PATRIOT Act included […]

Libraries and Privacy: Following up with CASSIE

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Following up - again - on recent posts on libraries and privacy here and at Chronicles of Dissent, CoD has received a response from the makers of the CASSIE Internet access management system. Excerpts from their e-mail exchange:
1. Can the feature to be able to view a patron’s screen remotely be disabled library-wide via […]

Libraries and Privacy: Following up with the ALA

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Following up on recent posts on libraries and privacy here and at Chronicles of Dissent, CoD contacted Deborah Caldwell-Stone, a Deputy Director at the American Library Association, for reactions of some of the issues we’ve been discussing.
Regarding concerns about libraries requiring a valid library ID in order to access the Internet, Caldwell-Stone stated, in part:
requiring […]

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