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this article talked about a lot of the topics we have been reviewing and discussing in our LSC 597 class. The last section of the article reviewed the challenges, which have already come up and been debated recently in our classroom forums, such as: "Technology outdistancing policy" We discussed this in the Forums recently, as it applied to Face book. This thorn has been a factor of the equation since the world wide web was invented. As soon as a program to stop a hacker is invented a new way to hack comes along. The repercussions for someone hacking into your personal and financial privacy in a country where it is laughed off or even encouraged doesn't help you as a user to bee secure, or have your rights protected.

For librarians, "Defining a "record" in a complex electronic environment" is going to be a challenge. I just finished taking a cataloging course. Cataloging has only just begun to adapt to the challenges by having records be online vs. being formatted to adhere to and be consistent with the card catalog system!

We discussed the "Gauging (of) legal responsibilities" as it is becoming murky to define. If you truly embrace the theories, advantages, and freedom we can all be afforded in our current "free" information culture, it stands to reason that our old way of viewing copyrights and copyrights infringement must evolve to reflect the current modes of operation.

If we as librarians seek to embrace the opportunities afforded to us by new technology we will need to become part of the solution in solving the challenges presented by social networking and other available information technology.