Comments on: That wasn’t what I checked out! http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/ The library voice of the radical middle. Wed, 22 May 2013 05:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-91 walt Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:38:48 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-91 You’re required to provide your email address in the slot specified–but that’s never posted; I’m the only one who can see it. Will you get spammed because you put it on the open response? Probably, given harvesters. I’d only put my email address in the open if I was inviting private replies from other people who read this blog. (Not that my own email addresses are that hard to find, although I’ve tried to make them hard to harvest.)

]]> By: Michael May http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Michael May Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:03:12 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-89 The woman’s odd behavior does lead one to suspect that it was she who dubbed the video, à la “finger in my chili.”

The arrest in Decatur, IL apparently did occur after police used a court order to obtain circulation records. More info at http://tinyurl.com/96nj7

Recommended Sites

Crime in the Library at http://crimeinthelibrary.blogspot.com/
Strange, though many of the same stories appear at LISNews, Library Journal, and American Libraries.

Marginalia and other crimes at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/marginalia/
Should they add streaming video of a tape dubbed with porno, as an example of what not to do?

Mike

p.s. I wish I hadn’t included my email address to my previous comments. I’m going to get spammed, aren’t I?

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-88 walt Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:40:22 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-88 Ruth Ellen: I don’t use emoticons; that was a bit of irony. Maybe a sloppy bit…

]]> By: Ruth Ellen http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Ruth Ellen Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:43:49 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-87 Um… it’s YOUR blog. You’re allowed to express an opinion on it. Don’t have to apologize.

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-86 walt Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:31:28 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-86 That’s true–if the library can track them (which, for reasons of borrowing-history confidentiality, the library may not be able to do). But for that to happen, the mother would have to talk to the librarians, not grandstand (oops, sorry, opinion there) to the media.

]]> By: Michael May http://walt.lishost.org/2005/04/that-wasnt-what-i-checked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Michael May Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:32:24 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=26#comment-85 Hi Walt,

While not preventative, the library could prosecute people caught defacing or destroying videos in this manner. For example, see this blurb from Library Journal (not sure if I need html to activate this link):

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA458073?display=searchResults&stt=001&text=decatur

But what about political or pornographic tracts, e.g. graphic anti-abortion pamphlets, intentionally placed in library books? That seems even harder to prevent or prosecute than destruction of videos.

Michael May
Appleton, WI
michael.p.may@earthlink.net

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