Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Privacy. Show all posts

Patron Privacy

Privacy: an Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
<http://tinyurl.com/aahtmfo>

This document explains the value of protecting the confidentiality of patron records.

K.S.A. 45-221 (23)
<http://tinyurl.com/agffqcy>
Library records not required to be open to the public. K.S.A. 45-221 (23) says the Kansas Open Records Act does not apply to patron and circulation records which identify individuals.

Guidelines for Developing a Library Privacy Policy
<http://tinyurl.com/k9gblxl>

This document:
  • Defines Personally Indentifiable Information

  • How to draft a library privacy policy

  • Special conditions such as public library services to minors.

  • Checklist of basic questions to ask about collecting information, providing privacy and reviewing your policy

Examples of policies protecting patron records.

Kansas City Public Library
http://tinyurl.com/bc8xh8l

Topeka Shawnee County Public Library
http://tinyurl.com/am5o3rz

Overbrook Public Library
http://tinyurl.com/aqg45jt (Scroll down to confidentiality)

Newton Public Library
http://tinyurl.com/c5qbdjw (Scroll down to confidentiality)

Library Bill of Rights

Library Bill of Rights <http://tinyurl.com/ck7jybp>
This is American Library Association's basic policy on intellectual freedom. It's six points demand library materials are for the whole community, library collections should represent all points of view, librarians should resist censorship, everyone should be allowed to use the library and library exhibit spaces and meeting rooms should be available to everyone. Through the years, ALA has written a number of interpretations related for a variety of situations.