Privacy and Freedom of Information in 21st-Century Libraries

by Jason Griffey, Sarah Houghton-Jan, Eli Neiburger, Office for Intellectual Freedom

Overview

In the November/December issue of Library Technology Reports, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom has assembled an all-star cast of writers to explore the challenges to privacy that ongoing shifts in technology have created, and how librarians can address them.Topics Covered in this Issue: * Libraries, Technology, and the Culture of Privacy by Barbara M. Jones * User-Generated Content by Eli Neiburger * Internet Filtering by Sarah Houghton-Jan * Social Networking and the Library by Jason Griffey * RFID in Libraries by Deborah Caldwell-Stone

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838991374
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	12/01/2010
Series:	Library Technology Reports
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	36
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jason Griffey is an associate professor and head of library information technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His latest book, Mobile Technology and Libraries, is now available as a part of Neal Schuman’s Tech Set. Jason’s previous book, Library Blogging, with Karen A Coombs, is available through Amazon. He can be stalked obsessively at www.jasongriffey.net and at Pattern Recognition, his personal blog. He is the author of the American Libraries Perpetual Beta blog, and is also a columnist for the ALA Techsource blog. Jason was named one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers in 2009 and is regularly invited to speak on libraries, the social economy, mobile technology, and other technology-related issues. He spends his free time with his daughter, Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.

Table of Contents

* Libraries, Technology, and the Culture of Privacy by Barbara M. Jones * User-Generated Content by Eli Neiburger * Internet Filtering by Sarah Houghton-Jan * Social Networking and the Library by Jason Griffey * RFID in Libraries by Deborah Caldwell-Stone