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    • LIS 691 The Virtual Library - Crises and Controversies
    Week Twelve: Privacy and Surveillance - The Library as Panopticon ?

    July 29, 1999

    Debate Topic:

    "Only paranoids worry about what digital librarians do with patron information."

    Readings:

    Shuman, Bruce. Beyond the Library of the Future. Englewood, Col: Libraries Unlimited, 1997.

    Fouty, Kathleen G. "Online Patron Records and Privacy: Service vs Security." Journal of Academic Librarianship. 19.5 (1993) 289-293.

    Caroogian, Rhoda. "Librarian/Patron Confidentiality: An Ethical Challenge. " Library Trends 40.2 (1991) 216-33.

    Friedman, Mathew. Fuzzy Logic Ch.5 & 6.

    >Last revised: June 2, 1999
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