Devon County Council - Library Services

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This is one of the original sections of SeeRed. In the following pages are documented a dispute between the author and Devon County Council that has been ongoing since June 2002. It had two causes:

The manner in which People's Network computers were installed in Devon libraries - effectively giving users no privacy, and the subsequent refusal by Devon Library Services to answer letters on this subject, and

the failure of Devon County Council to answer questions related to the potentially repressive degree of 'snooping' that had been incorporated into local 'command and control' systems for People's Network computers.

A considerable amount of Press coverage was generated. Pages in this section appear in chronological order. Discussion of People's Network computer systems in UK libraries has been moved to a new section. The future of public libraries and the role of computers in 'dumbing down' is also discussed elsewhere.

It is acknowledged that the entire SeeRed website probably owes its existence to the despotic behaviour of Lynn Osborne, previously head of Devon Library Service within Devon County Council.

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