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As early as 1973, the FBI was running a program aimed at securing information about reading habits of many library users; this program was ultimately called the "Library Awareness Program". [1] The Library Awareness Program was designed as a counterintelligence effort that would provide information to the FBI including the names and reading ...
Letter from the Patron: Justice Z.M. (Zak) Yacoob, Former Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and Chancellor of the University of Durban, South Africa. Items portrayed in this file depicts
The Library Bill of Rights is the American Library Association's statement expressing the rights of library users to intellectual freedom and the expectations the association places on libraries to support those rights. The Association's Council has adopted a number of interpretations of the document applying it to various library policies.
Historically, MAC was strongly associated with multilevel security (MLS) as a means of protecting classified information of the United States.The Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC), the seminal work on the subject and often known as the Orange Book, provided the original definition of MAC as "a means of restricting access to objects based on the sensitivity (as represented by ...
Every patron his information. Every medium its user. Save the time of the patron. The library is a growing organism. [15] In 2016, Dr. Achala Munigal recommended the following edits to Ranganathan's laws due to the introduction and application of social tools in libraries: Social Media is for use – increasingly in libraries by librarians.
Letter writing campaigns are chiefly intended to inform law makers, library officials, and citizens about the ramifications of decisions regarding public libraries and to promote library-related causes. [2] Letter writing has been a valuable form of communication among public library advocates.
After receiving a request, the borrowing library identifies potential lending libraries with the desired item. The lending library delivers the item physically or electronically, and the borrowing library receives the item and delivers it to their patron, and if necessary, arranges for its return. Sometimes, fees accompany interlibrary loan ...
Library card for the National Central Library in Taiwan. A library card can refer to several cards traditionally used for the management of books and patrons in a library. In its most common use, a library card serves similar functions as a corporate membership card. A person who holds a library card has borrowing or other privileges associated ...