SJRLC Connections

OCLC Report: Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World

The next in OCLC's great series of Membership Reports is now available for download from: http://www.oclc.org/reports/sharing/.  If it's half as good as their previous reports, it will give us all a lot to think about and discuss!

From OCLC's site:

Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World Now available! This OCLC membership report summarizes the findings of an international study on online social spaces, including social networking attitudes and habits of both end users and librarians. This international study on social networking, privacy and trust opinions surveyed the general public in six countries—Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—and library directors from the U.S. Social networking was also discussed at the OCLC Symposium “Who’s Watching YOUR Space?” at ALA Midwinter 2007, while property law and privacy rights were discussed at the OCLC Symposium: “Is the Library Open?” at ALA Annual 2007.

Joan Bernstein has an article in CIL

Joan Bernstein, Director of the Mount Laurel Library, has a feature article in this month's Computers in Libraries entitled, Train Employees and Officials to Be Ready for Privacy Challenges.

If you don't subscribe to the wonderful magazine, don't fret:  You can access the full text online at: http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun07/Bernstein.shtml.