Conduct in an Insitution

What do you do in a situation where you interact with the police? Homeland security?
In a library's position, in an institution; whether its private or public
the librarians in these institutions must make decisions based upon either
judgments or based on the American Library Association Standards.
Either way, there are Ethics in Libraries and Librarians
are faced with preserving YOUR first amendments rights.

What do you care about your first amendment rights? Do you care at all?

I know I care.

The FBI and CIA and NSA have been using
the Patriot Act to access information for terrorism cases,
and to save lives, but at what price? Do you want people to know
what you've been reading? What you've been studying? Those
are the questions a Librarian answers in an Institution whether it be public
or private.

I know you support to end terrorism, but the government takes that information and could use it against you in the court of law, place you in jail, and you would never have a trial. This is what happens to terrorist, but wait there is a trial, 9 months after prison sentence and that is if your lucky. Then most likely your found guilty, cause the government doesn't care if you were just using the information for school, research, documentary, assignment, or for personal use to better assist you to understand what is going on in the world. They don't care.

That is why, its important for librarians to keep the
first amendment right safe, and in place because
without the first amendment, the constitution
isn't being followed. Without the first amendment right we
have no reason to call ourselves a democracy, and are hiprocrits
to calling other countries lesser cause they
fight in the name of terrorism.

But within the Librarians, and Institutions sometimes
they need to be able to make decisions for the better good
but what's good? To loose your rights to protect the public? Or to
loose your rights to protect the World?

Ponder this, and I'll write another blog on
Institutions and our Privacy within the work of Librarians and Libraries
today.

University Insitution Library

What is a library without a University Library? They are considered an Academic Library. It's a particular library where students, faculty, and staff come together to use the library as a resource for research, development, and education for the next generations. Constantly, Academic libraries get overlooked cause they are often too common. But, Academic Libraries are the best source of information for referencing, researching, and reporting on school, medical, commercial, and special libraries. They often have access to resources that at often times normal libraries do not have. For instance, if you belonged and go to a university or have a university library card, you can gain access to Legal libraries, medical libraries, statistic libraries, databases, and journals for your studies. Often if you don't belong to a university library, the card could cost anywhere between 50-100 dollars. Though, if you need to resources the card is well worth the cost.