Re: Internet monitoring software

[Carol Simpson <csimpson@TENET.EDU>]

Karen DeFrank wrote:

> And don't forget the privacy laws that restrict librarians from keeping
> check out cards, so that students' borrowing records can't be traced.  How
> is this different?
>

Interestingly, if you check with ALA and with your state attorney
general, those laws only protect PUBLIC libraries. We found that out the
hard way when we attempted to deny a parent access to what books their
kid had checked out currently. We don't maintain historical records, but
the parent wanted to know what the kid had out AT THAT MOMENT. We
declined, citing the library priacy acts. The principal made us document
the law, so we contacted ALA and the atate attorney general. Both agreed
that the federal Family Records Act supercedes the library laws when it
comes to students enrolled in schools which receive ANY federal money.

Carol Simpson
Mesquite (TX) ISD
csimpson@tenet.edu

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