Confidentiality
When a student provides us with the personal information we need to operate a Circulation system, he has every right to expect that this information be used only for the purpose for which we gather it. When he signs out a book or places a Hold on it, he expects that we will keep confidential his academic interests. If he receives a fax message using our fax service, he expects that we will be disinterested in its content. When he discusses personal circumstances that led to a late return of a Library book, he expects confidentiality.
This is an increasingly significant principle in the collection and use of personal information everywhere, and no more so than in libraries, who have always expected our staff to make confidentiality a strict guiding principle in all we do.
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