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According to the American Library Association (ALA), "Privacy is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association. In libraries, the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by others."
The purpose of this website is to identify teen rights to privacy within a library setting. The aspects that are covered within this website include: evaluation of the ethical theories, discussion of the current regulations, assessment of the advocates and opponents for privacy rights in libraries for teens, and real world examples of privacy policies from various types of libraries. Definition of "teen" for this study of teen ethics includes young adults between the ages of 12 to 18.
Teens are the highest growing generation that are computer knowledgeable. By becoming part of the library community, teens have multitudes of information available to them, and what rights to they have? We have found that teens do not have many rights, since they are still considered minors, in custody of parents and/or caregivers.
Please view our topics for discussion page to begin the conversation about teen privacy in the library environment.
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