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A Study of Digital Library Service Records and User Privacy

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2012, 29(3), pp.187~214
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2012.29.3.187
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 14, 2012
  • Accepted : September 10, 2012
  • Published : September 30, 2012

Younghee, Noh 1

1건국대학교

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ABSTRACT

Libraries are founded to ensure the intellectual freedom of citizens, and citizens have the right to confidentiality regarding their needs, information access, and information use. Protecting users’ privacy is critical to safeguarding their freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of assembly. Libraries and librarians should seriously concern themselves with their users’ privacy because protecting this privacy is part of their most important mission, and, in doing so, users can truly enjoy their intellectual freedom. This study extensively investigated and analyzed the possibility of privacy invasion that may occur in libraries. As a result, cases of potential invasion of privacy in libraries were summarized in the following three categories: violations occurring in the process of national or law agencies’ enforcement operations; violations occurring in the process of routine library services such as circulation, reference, online searching etc.; and violations occurring by outsourcing library services.

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