Agreed totally. There's a great article for LJ waiting to be written
titled: The Wrongs of Privacy. I'm not suggesting that libraries throw
out our sensitive and nuanced understanding of a library user's
rights. But can we at least realize that there are some advantages for
users to sharing (in a limited way) some information that would
normally be considered "private"
Karl Maria
On Jan 25, 2008, at 3:47 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
>>
> This question is worth asking. I'm scratching my head as to why we
> believe people should have much greater privacy expectations when
> using a library than when using a credit card, email, ecommerce site,
> or just about any other service. As a group, we librarians seem to
> think our data and technology-based services require enough privacy to
> satisfy any black helicopter conspiracy theorist.
>
>
> We need to be concerned about appropriate use of data, but over the
> past few years we've gone over the deep end.
karl maria fattig / systems and digital initiatives librarian /
bowdoin college library
kfattig_at_bowdoin.edu
Received on Sun Jan 27 2008 - 21:34:41 EST