Walking the line
Damn ethics! If it wasn’t for them we’d have cracked this revenue things ages ago. I find myself spending quite a bit of time thinking about this project and my mind keeps trying to find parallels in the private sector. Who else gives away their product or service to heaps of diverse users and yet also generates revenue? Inevitably my mind turns to the like of facebook and google and their advertising revenue. On paper it seems like libraries’ golden goose. Someone requests a book and they get an advert in the hold pickup notice e.g. request a book on deck building get an advert for a hardware store. Great, except for one problem: ethics. The LIANZA code of conduct kinda rules it out without spending a lot of time seeking permission from various people* 11.4 Any information about identified clients and their individual interests obtained by librarians in the course of their professional duties is privileged and should not be used for any purpos...
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