E-problem puts library patrons' info on Internet

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http://www.mlive.com/news/muchronicle/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1166631362312200.xml&coll=8

A technical problem on the Lakeland Library Cooperative Web site made
available personal information of more than 15,000 patrons across West
Michigan on the Internet.

Information that was displayed included names, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses, street addresses and library card numbers of library
patrons registered on the site.

Minors were also indicated on the spreadsheet type document by a
listing of parents' names.

"(Our systems manager) thinks there was a software malfunction," said
Martha McKee, interim director of the Lakeland Cooperative Library.
"They fixed that, so the information is not accessible anymore."

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