IM legal issues?
I'm writing a chapter on the future of chat reference for an edited book to be published by ACRL and busy trying to track down citations for various things I learned from other people. When I asked Caleb Tucker-Raymond if he could recall where I may have read his comment that library use of commercial IM products might actually violate their terms of service, he went and did the research all over again, e-mailed it to me, and then posted it on the L-net blog.
I'll put my comments about the content of his post on the L-net blog, but I will take a moment now to say that I think Caleb consistently proves himself to be one of the most innovative people writing about digital reference services. Check out all the great work of his on the L-net blog to see what I mean, then go search the archives of the Dig_Ref list for more proof.
posted by Stephen Francoeur @ 4:32 PM
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Interesting stuff, thanks for passing it along. If you'd like your chapter to be international, and haven't already addressed this, we're being told by our privacy watchdogs in Canada that we may not be able to use IM for reference because of potential logs being kept on US servers. Seems a bit over the top to me, but they're reading the TOS and seem to be coming to that conclusion. Time will tell.
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