[Publib] Library to rescuers: We don't help

[Bruce Bumbalough]

Maybe it is just the lack of common sense about some issues * I know patron privacy is one of the professions scared cows, but maybe * just maybe to help the authorities * we needn't go to the mat on any time we feel a ptron's privacy may be compromised.

Putting on asbestos suit and awaiting the flames.

Bruce Bumbalough
Grapevine Public Library
Grapevine, Texas

Bruce Bumbalough
Reference Librarian
Grapevine Public Library
1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051

817-410-3404 or 817-410-3449
bbumbalough@ ci.grapevine.tx.us


>>> Joe Schallan <jbsphx at cox.net> 3/9/2007 1:43 AM >>>
Is it just my paranoia, or does the press seem overly
eager to spin any story involving us as negatively as
possible?  Maybe it's all the shushing we used to do
in the 50s and 60s?

 From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:

Librarian refused to ID hurt woman
Cardholder found struggling in river

Saturday, February 03, 2007
by Mary Beth Lane

LANCASTER, Ohio * A woman who carried no identification except her  
public library card was plucked from the icy waters of the Hocking  
River on Thursday night.

Lancaster police were able to identify her as 51-year-old Sheila  
Springer, but no thanks to the Fairfield County District Library . . . .

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Find the complete story at

http://tinyurl.com/3ctsua 

Methinks that the poor circulation manager had been
instructed that one does not give out patron data, EVER,
without a subpoena.

-- Joe Schallan
     Phoenix

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