Identifying Library Patrons By Personal Name

["Cheryl Kugler" <Cheryl.Kugler@libraries.claremont.edu>]

We are considering purchasing access to an electronic resource 
which will require that our library patrons register and provide 
their personal names -- not a username -- before accessing the 
database. Several of us feel that the identification of each user 
by personal name voids privacy and we should seek to negotiate 
this requirement out of the license agreement.

Have any of you dealt with a database provider who required this 
form of identification and registration? How did you view this 
requirement and how did you handle the license as a result of 
your assessment of this aspect?

Thanks for your comments.

Cheryl C. Kugler
Head, Bibliographic Access Services
Honnold/Mudd Library
800 N. Dartmouth Ave.
Claremont, CA  91711

909.607.8108   phone
909.607.7327   fax