Comments on: Traffic delays due to library campaigners https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/05/traffic-delays-due-to-library-campaigners.html What's happening to your library? Wed, 25 May 2016 08:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Frank Daniels https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/05/traffic-delays-due-to-library-campaigners.html#comment-7757 Wed, 25 May 2016 08:25:39 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11062#comment-7757 Disagree with you Mr Smart, CILIP has a code of ethics, which it makes, it says, central to its activities, and although CILIP is not a statutary body it says it expects its members to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. Losing data is not appropriate, imho, for any library service. Politics drives what happens in libraries, which means cost-cutting both of stock and staff budgets. A librarian cannot be held to account by CILIP for that, but a loss of data goes to the heart of professional ethics and should be acted upon, but that would require some individual person with first hand knowledge and evidence to step forward.

Ian, data migration, if that is what it was in Barnet, costs money. It cannot be done on the cheap, so if something goes wrong, even if the Chief Librarian had no choice about what was to happen, it still reflects very badly on any such person “overseeing” such events. I know it won’t be acted upon because nobody cares enough. It has all happened before, elsewhere …

]]> By: darren smart https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/05/traffic-delays-due-to-library-campaigners.html#comment-7756 Tue, 24 May 2016 06:55:48 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11062#comment-7756 Also worth noting CILIP has no authority to investigate data protection issues & has no authority over individuals or organisations, it is a member organisation not a statutory body

]]> By: Ian Anstice https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/05/traffic-delays-due-to-library-campaigners.html#comment-7755 Mon, 23 May 2016 18:07:39 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11062#comment-7755 In reply to Frank Daniels.

Hi Frank. From my understanding, it was out of their hands – the council decided to outsource everything and no choice was had. Perhaps thirty years ago librarians had power to dictate such essentials but too often nowadays it is the IT department that calls the shots.

]]> By: Frank Daniels https://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/2016/05/traffic-delays-due-to-library-campaigners.html#comment-7753 Mon, 23 May 2016 14:58:53 +0000 http://www.publiclibrariesnews.com/?p=11062#comment-7753 Did the Chief Librarian at Barnet tender his/her resignation over the loss of computer data mentioned in your blog? Thirty years ago that might have happened, but today’s post holder would probably be expecting a big bonus in the pay packet for carrying out the orders at the least, i.e. cheapest cost to the Council. Cilip should look into it as loss of data looks like professional misconduct. If libraries are not about data and its protection then what are they about?

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