著者

山本 順一

出版者

桃山学院大学

雑誌

桃山学院大学経済経営論集 (ISSN:02869721)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.58, no.2, pp.17-68, 2016-10

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Now we are living 21st century social lives. Information technology and Internet have been changing our society and our daily life. Everything continues to be different day by day. Public libraries all over the world are also changing. They have taken new digital contents and various databases. While lots of library users now use e-books and electronic journals, they use PCs in the libraries and enjoy cyberspace. Librarians believe in intellectual freedom, and library privacy as well. This paper deals with the legal history and construction of library privacy. Substantial idea of library privacy protection style nowadays is different from 20th century's way. Japanese public libraries would like to protect users' library privacy through general ordinances for the protection of personal data held by administrative organs. The author considers such Japanese legal way of style is inappropriate, and U.S. public libraries enforce better protection of the personal library use information through their privacy policies and various privacy protection laws. This paper introduces some examples, including San Francisco, Boston, New York, and so on.