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Michael Casey on Privacy and Failure

When a library customer comes into our building and makes use of our resources and services, we extend to that user a shield of privacy so long as they agree not to violate our policies or the law. The protective shield of privacy can only be pierced when the individual violates the contract regarding use. [...]

Privacy Fiends?

Via Katharine, a Dom GSLIS student,

Librarians want to turn us all into privacy fiends

The ALA’s new campaign wants to 1) educate people, and then 2) turn them into activists. The education component of the three-year program will make people aware, for instance, that “checking out a biography of Osama Bin Laden could prompt [...]