Comments on: Privacy, Censorship, and Good Records Management: Brooklyn Public Library in the Crosshairs http://thesecretmirror.com/records-management/bpl-in-nytimes EAD: Everything Ain't Done. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: MARY JOE http://thesecretmirror.com/records-management/bpl-in-nytimes/comment-page-1#comment-41495 MARY JOE Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:24:30 +0000 http://thesecretmirror.com/?p=230#comment-41495 <p>Thank you for redacting out the name above.</p> <p>Best regards, Mary</p> Thank you for redacting out the name above.

Best regards, Mary

]]> By: MARY JOE http://thesecretmirror.com/records-management/bpl-in-nytimes/comment-page-1#comment-41473 MARY JOE Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:36:37 +0000 http://thesecretmirror.com/?p=230#comment-41473 <p>Hello, I wonder if you can empathize with [name redacted]. Her privacy is lost. Is it possible you can remove her name from your blog post and start a new post. The issue is major and you raise important privacy concerns. But in so doing you are also hurting someone else.</p> <p>Forever grateful Mary</p> Hello, I wonder if you can empathize with [name redacted]. Her privacy is lost. Is it possible you can remove her name from your blog post and start a new post. The issue is major and you raise important privacy concerns. But in so doing you are also hurting someone else.

Forever grateful Mary

]]> By: Keep Reading http://thesecretmirror.com/records-management/bpl-in-nytimes/comment-page-1#comment-41424 Keep Reading Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:17 +0000 http://thesecretmirror.com/?p=230#comment-41424 <p>Another interesting story about Brooklyn Public Library is in Library Journal: </p> <p>http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6677263.html</p> <p>Evidently, Brooklyn Public Library thought it would be a GOOD idea to PUBLICIZE its layoffs and invited the Washington Post to view employees getting laid off. The Washington Post recorded intimate details and printed them in "The Art of Letting Employees go" on August 9, 2009. It was just like one of those cheap reality TV shows. </p> <p>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802659.html</p> Another interesting story about Brooklyn Public Library is in Library Journal:

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6677263.html

Evidently, Brooklyn Public Library thought it would be a GOOD idea to PUBLICIZE its layoffs and invited the Washington Post to view employees getting laid off. The Washington Post recorded intimate details and printed them in “The Art of Letting Employees go” on August 9, 2009. It was just like one of those cheap reality TV shows.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/08/AR2009080802659.html

]]> By: Janon Fisher http://thesecretmirror.com/records-management/bpl-in-nytimes/comment-page-1#comment-41263 Janon Fisher Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:50:23 +0000 http://thesecretmirror.com/?p=230#comment-41263 <p>The law does not protect anonymity. It protects privacy in certain circumstances. What's going to happen to [name redacted - ed.] if her name appears on a website?</p> The law does not protect anonymity. It protects privacy in certain circumstances. What’s going to happen to [name redacted - ed.] if her name appears on a website?

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