[11271] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Pictures on the Web--Responses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Mon May 5 20:12:25 1997
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 19:00:39 -0500
From: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <LIBPACS@UHUPVM1.UH.EDU>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
2 Messages, 47 Lines
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From: Daniel Cwiertniewicz <dan@www.ugl.wayne.edu>
Subject: Re: Pictures on the Web-Response
Thanks. One minute I'm convinced that we shouldn't have cameras, and
then someone like Dan Lester has a really clear and well thought out
response that drags me back the other way.
Dan
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From: Wilton Library Association <wla@mail2.nai.net>
Subject: Re: Pictures on the Web
I finally have to chime in on this one now that Dan Lester has pointed
out that, in fact, there is no real legal issue involved here.
There are, however, as so many people have pointed out, some very
personal ones. How obvious are the cameras going to be? Where will the
cameras be (right behind the librarian allowing full front views of the
patrons)? How close-up will the images be? Is there even a chance that
a nervous student would fear their face were going to be broadcast to
the world at large (forget for a moment that interest in this site will
likely not be worldwide - the potential is there)? Will cameras trained
on reading areas be capable of picking up magazine and newspaper titles
(if not those of books)?
It is one thing to place cameras in public "transitional" areas, those
places where little business is transacted as people pass from one place
to another, but give me the wrong answers to the above questions, and we
are no longer talking about a cute gimmick but something that seriously
hampers the performance of the duties which are our purpose (and that of
the institution).
And on a VERY personal note: I have a hatred of cameras that borders on
a phobia. Have had since I was a child. Forcing me to work in an
environment where I knew a camera was capturing and broadcasting
everything I did would be like forcing a claustrophobic to work in a
crowded elevator.
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wla@ct2.nai.net Wilton Library Association
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