Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Today's Academic Library

Privacy and Confidentiality Issues in Today’s Academic Library

U.S. Legal Documents Related to Privacy and Confidentiality

The Code of Iowa – 2007.
SEE provisions related to confidential records in Section 22.7.
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IowaLaw.html 22 April 2008 .

FindLaw. "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT Act) Act of 2001." Public Law 107 – 56 – October 26, 2001.
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/hr3162.pdf

THOMAS – Legislative Information on the Internet. Library of Congress. "The Bill of Rights."
http://memory.loc.gov/const/bor.html 16 October 1996.

Library Associations

American Library Association. "Code of Ethics of the American Library Association."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/codeofethics/codeethics.cfm Adopted by the ALA Council 28 June 1997. Amended January 22, 2008.

American Library Association. "History of the Code of Ethics: 1939 Code of Ethics for Librarians."
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=History1&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8875 13 August 2003.

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. "The Glasgow Declaration on Libraries, Information Services and Intellectual Freedom."
http://www.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/gldeclar-e.html 30 August 2002.

Other Associations and Entities

"Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union."
SEE Chapter II – Freedoms, Article 8 "Protection of personal data."
http://www.europarl.eu.int/charter/pdf/text_en.pdf 2000.

The European Convention. "Draft Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe. Part II. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the Union."
SEE Article II-8: protection of personal data.
http://european-convention.eu.int/docs/Treaty/cv00850.en03.pdf 18 July 2003.

General Assembly of the United Nations. "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
SEE Article 12.
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."
SEE Article 17.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm

Guidelines for Protecting Patron Privacy

Intellectual Freedom Committee. American Library Association. "Guidelines for Developing a Library Privacy Policy."
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/iftoolkits/toolkitsprivacy/guidelinesfordevelopingalibraryprivacypolicy/guidelinesprivacypolicy.cfm March 5, 2005.

Sample Academic Library Privacy Policies

Boston College Library. "Confidentiality of Library Use Records Policy."
http://www.bc.edu/libraries/about/confidentiality/ March 2003.

Duke University Libraries. "Privacy Policy for Duke University Libraries."
http://www.lib.duke.edu/privacy.htm 19 December 2002.

Jean and Alexander Heard Library,Vanderbilt University. "Privacy Policy: Confidentiality of Library Records."
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/access/confidentiality.shtml March 2003.

Syracuse University Library. "Patron Privacy Policy."
http://libwww.syr.edu/policies/privacy.html 30 July 2003.

Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida. "Privacy Statement."
http://www.unf.edu/library/info/privacy.html 10 June 2003.

Yale University Library. "Confidentiality of Library Records."
http://www.library.yale.edu/about/confidentiality.html 12 November 2002.

Other Resources

American Library Association. "Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights."
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8551 Adopted by the ALA Council 12 July 2000.

American Library Association. "Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights."
http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=Interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=31883 16 May 2003.

Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education. "Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)."
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html

Hibbert, Chris. "History and Significance of the Social Security Number."
http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/SSN-History.html#PrivacyAct 10 December 2001.

Intellectual Freedom Committee. American Library Association. "Questions and Answers on Privacy and Confidentiality – January 22, 2003."
http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Our_Association/Offices/Intellectual_Freedom3/Statements_and_Policies/Intellectual_Freedom2/Interpretations/Questions_and_Answers_on_Privacy_and_Confidentiality.htm 17 August 2003.

Social Security Administration. "Social Security Online – History, Research, & Data."
http://www.ssa.gov/data_research.htm 28 November 2003.

United States Government Printing Office. "The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. Fourth Amendment – Search and Seizure."
http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/constitution/con015.pdf 27 September 2002.