[bksvol-discuss] Re: International issues and building the global library

Sarah,

Bookshare either has copies of the books after they're fingerprinted or the
fingerprints themselves since they would need that in order to identify
which book was downloaded by whom.

NLS does keep a record of books they've sent you in order to provide better
service.  I've been told several times when I request a book a second time
that I've already read that book.  The info is also needed to allow the
computer to select books from a category you've requested.  I remember when
I told MS that I was moving to TX, they said they'd forward my records so I
wouldn't be sent books I've already read if I request books by category.

HTH

Gerald


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Is it the bookshare system that keeps track of the books or is it only the
file that is downloaded.  If only the file holds the information then
bookshare would have no opertunity to know unless someone misused or
distributed that book file.
Honestly I didn't know that there were rules against keeping track of the
books a person took out from the public library.

Something makes me suspect that NLS can keep track of books members get,
because they hardly ever send you a book you have already read from them.
I don't know how the system could automatically send you books without
sending some twice if no records were held.  that wouldn't mean that just
anyone could look at the records, though. Maybe it is only allowing others
to see the records that is forbidden.

Sarah Van Oosterwijck
Assistive Technology Trainer
http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity

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Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 2:38 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: International issues and building the global
library


> -It was interesting to me to read that introductory
> notice, Gerald.  What caught my attention in
> particular was the line about bookshare's having a
> record of every book a person downloaded.  I asked my
> public library about that once, to see if there was a
> way to find out who had a book before that was
> damaged. They said that they can't keep records of
> what a person reads--that it's illegal. Once the book
> is returned to the library, it's expunged from the
> borrowers records. I don't know what law it is, or
> when it was passed, but it occurs to me that, in the
> case of public libraries, with the wrong sort of
> government (imagine Joseph McCarthy as president) a
> person could get in trouble for the books he's known
> to read.
>
> If bookshare can keep a record, I suppose there's some
> exemption in some law that allows it--or that in the
> membership agreement the member gives explicit
> consent.
>
> Cindy
>
>
>
>
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