RE: Identifying Library Patrons By Personal Name

[Michele Newberry <fclmin@cns.ufl.edu>]

We would not agree to such a clause and, if it couldn't be 
removed, would not license this database.  We have, rarely, 
agreed to a license where users had to self-identify to use 
optional features required saved data but never to do searching 
or use the database content.

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Michele Newberry        Assistant Director for Library Services
Florida Center for Library Automation              352-392-9020
5830 NW 39th Avenue                          352-392-9185 (fax)
Gainesville, FL  32606                       fclmin@cns.ufl.edu
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----------------Original Message---------------------------
Subject: Identifying Library Patrons By Personal Name
From: "Cheryl Kugler" <Cheryl.Kugler@libraries.claremont.edu>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:04:02 EDT

We are considering purchasing access to an electronic resource 
which will require that our library patrons register and provide 
their personal names -- not a username -- before accessing the 
database. Several of us feel that the identification of each user 
by personal name voids privacy and we should seek to negotiate 
this requirement out of the license agreement.

Have any of you dealt with a database provider who required this 
form of identification and registration? How did you view this 
requirement and how did you handle the license as a result of 
your assessment of this aspect?

Thanks for your comments.

Cheryl C. Kugler
Head, Bibliographic Access Services
Honnold/Mudd Library
Claremont, CA  91711