CHAPTER 35

The Importance of Technical Security Measures

Historically, libraries have been one of the earliest adopters of technology. From the outset, libraries have used computer systems to increase the selection of resources that they can provide to users and to keep track of which consumers have checked out which products. And, given their core mission, the protection of users’ privacy has been a consistent, top priority for libraries, which have, as a community, adopted a proactive stance in assessing the potential and privacy implications of new technologies, realizing that it is far more challenging to raise privacy concerns after a technology has been adopted.1 The following subsections address several of the core technology privacy standards ...

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