That's true. At some level a library needs to know who has books out. But I
think true social networking and user-contributed content adds to the
problem. I mean, you wouldn't give your Facebook password to a library,
would you?
Tim
On 1/25/08, Charley Pennell <cpennell_at_unity.ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
> Doesn't Sirsi/Dynix (or III or ExLibris or Geac or Polaris) already have
> this ability? They certainly have the ability to dial into your system
> with sys admin privileges for troubleshooting purposes, and one presumes
> they can see anything resident in there. How else could they untangle
> data corruption and other insidious issues?
>
> Charley
>
> Tim Spalding wrote:
> > You can, of course, embed the sign-in within another site. But you would
> > need a separate sign in.
> >
> > How can we ask users to do that? By making a service that's interesting
> > enough to use. The average teenager today has dozens of accounts at
> dozens
> > of sites. Want a widget on your blog? Sign in here. It's unfortunate in
> some
> > sense, but separation is also a good thing insofar as it embeds privacy
> by
> > default. This is why drivers licenses no longer use social security
> numbers.
> >
> > It's also not always necessary to require sign-in immediately. Lots of
> > social sites allow you to things before you make a commitment to join.
> >
> > You can think of that as a pointless extra step, or as the thing that
> keeps
> > somebody in library administration or, as I suspect it will go,
> SirsiDynix,
> > from having the addresses of everyone at your school who reviews gay
> > literature. Think social networking in libraries is hard sell now? Just
> wait
> > until someone abuses the data.
> >
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