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There is apparently no general agreement on this.
Loughborough University's Charles Oppenheim believes that
they are exempted (see his briefing paper on the DPA at
http://www.sconul.ac.uk/publications/publications.htm). Most
lawyers I have spoken to disagree with this, but argue that
from the point of view of liability it is hard to see how an
author could claim that they had suffered if the details of
their publications were inaccurate, or whatever. However,
Charles refers (as I recall) to a case in Germany where a
politician complained about the bibliographic record a
library held on a political tract he had penned while a young
man. (I am not sure of the details of the case, or
how/whether it was resolved).
I have in fact been trying to obtain a view from the
Information Commissioner's office on this in connection with
an article I am writing on the DPA and libraries, but have
yet to connect with the right person.
For all that, if they are not exempted clearly it would seem
to place a greater emphasis on maintaining accurate records
would it not?
Richard Poynder
Phone: + 44 (0)191-386-0072
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> issues [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Gil Richardson
> Sent: 07 October 2002 09:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Library Catalogues
>
>
> Charles
>
> I haven't thought this through really - but wouldn't this be
> taking the DPA
> a touch to far? Isn't there some sort of explicit consent
> from authors that
> there treasured works will be advertised, promoted and made
> generally known
> via publishers lists, bookshop catalogues, library catalogues
> and so forth,
> Otherwise how would the fruits of their labours ever get
> known, purchased,
> borrowed or used for research and educational purposes. I
> would include
> theses in this as well as they are contributions to subject
> research. I am
> presuming that no more than the authors name and, maybe, institutional
> affiliation, in terms of personal details, are available on
> the catalogue.
>
> Catalogues I would say are exempt, not that I have any
> evidence for this!
> Interesting point and I would be interested in others views.
>
> Library borrowers databases on the other hand........
>
> Gil
>
> Gil Richardson
> Senior Information Manager
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Christacopoulos
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 04 October 2002 17:54
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Library Catalogues
>
> Hi,
>
> See what people do to me on a Friday.
>
> Our Library Catalogue is available for everyone to see (over
> the WWW too).
> It
> contains personal info. eg. names of authors. We also add
> our PhD theses to
> it
> .. (and elsewhere in the Uni. we act as publishers ... ouch).
>
> Do we need to notify for the library catalogue (if it did not
> included our
> students) ?
>
> Now that it does include our ex-phd students what?
>
> The real problem I got is ... what is the "Purpose" of
> processing catalogue
> data?
> Would I use "Education" on the standard template or invent another
> purpose?
>
> Ta for any thoughts.
> Charles
>
> PS. Sorry if it has been asked before. I can't search the
> list at jiscmail,
> I'll
> check it and report it if the problem remains.
>
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