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I'm curious if this is still a thing. Libraries in my county have moved to a completely online system for checking out books, renewing, etc. The system regularl
by craftyguy 8y ago
I'm curious if this is still a thing. Libraries in my county have moved to a completely online system for checking out books, renewing, etc. The system regularly recommends books to me 'based on previous borrows', which indicates they are tracking/storing information about what I have borrowed in the past. The next question is, who has access to this information? My guess in the library system here does not have a strong infosec department, nor a strong legal department to resist subpoenas/police shenanigans.
- cokernel 8y agoMany libraries will purge checkout records once a patron returns books, but the increasing reliance on centralized cloud-based ILS vendors is making this harder to do reliably. I'd appreciate it if you could name the online system your county uses. (Or if you can provide a link.)
- craftyguy 8y agoSure, here's the website: https://www.wccls.org/ https://www.wccls.org/ I'm not sure what backend they use for data storage, etc.