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A Study of Digital Library Service Records and User Privacy

디지털도서관서비스기록과 이용자프라이버시에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2012.08.14
  • Accepted : 2012.09.10
  • Published : 2012.09.30
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Abstract

Libraries are founded to ensure the intellectual freedom of citizens, and citizens have the right to confidentiality regarding their needs, information access, and information use. Protecting users' privacy is critical to safeguarding their freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of assembly. Libraries and librarians should seriously concern themselves with their users' privacy because protecting this privacy is part of their most important mission, and, in doing so, users can truly enjoy their intellectual freedom. This study extensively investigated and analyzed the possibility of privacy invasion that may occur in libraries. As a result, cases of potential invasion of privacy in libraries were summarized in the following three categories: violations occurring in the process of national or law agencies' enforcement operations; violations occurring in the process of routine library services such as circulation, reference, online searching etc.; and violations occurring by outsourcing library services.

도서관은 시민의 지적자유를 보장하기 위해 설립된 기관이며, 시민은 그들이 요구하고, 접근하고, 이용한 정보가 기밀로 유지될 권리를 갖는다. 그들의 프라이버시 보호는 언론의 자유, 사고의 자유, 집회의 자유를 실현하는데 핵심이 된다. 도서관과 사서가 이용자의 프라이버시 문제를 심각하게 생각해야 하는 이유는 도서관 이용자의 개인정보 보호는 사서가 가장 중요하게 생각해야 하는 임무중의 하나이며, 이용자가 지적자유를 진정으로 누릴 수 있도록 하기 위함이다. 본 연구에서는 도서관에서 발생할 수 있는 프라이버시 침해가능성에 대해서 포괄적으로 조사 분석하고자 하였다. 그 결과 국가나 법률관련기관이 업무를 집행하는 과정에서 발생했던 프라이버시 침해 사례, 대출반납서비스, 참고서비스, 온라인탐색서비스 등 일상적인 도서관서비스를 하는 과정에서 발생했던 프라이버시 침해가능성 및 사례, 그리고 도서관업무를 아웃소싱하는 과정에서 발생할 수 있는 침해 가능성 및 사례 등이 있는 것으로 조사되었다.

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