Confidentiality
Daemen Library respects the privacy of all patrons and staff; as such, under no circumstances may workers give out personal information.
Requests for personal information should never be honored. Personal information includes, but is not limited to:
- Circulation records for any person other than the requestor
- Identification of students/staff who borrowed reserved items
- Circulation records of students suspected of plagiarism
- Interlibrary loan borrowing records
- Personal information (addresses, phone numbers, etc.) of people in the patron database
- Non-college associated library users
- Fines and fees of a student requested by a parent without the student's permission
- The name of a person who has checked out a particular item
- Review of past users of an item or book
- The nature of a person's reference request or database search
- The names of persons who have used DVD or Reserve materials
- A list of articles photocopied or emailed to a patron
- A list of suggested acquisitions submitted by a patron
- The identity of anyone conducting research on a particular subject