![Destiny Library Manager has begun working on a system to automatically notify parents when their kids check out a school library book... [more in self-text]](https://i.imgur.com/YOcHApg.png){kind=link}
Destiny? That's fucking dystopian.
The system is a dominant library management solutions provider and it's owned by a private equity firm...
Follett School Solutions Sold to Private Equity Firm | American Libraries Magazine
What does acquisition of dominant library management solutions provider mean for K–12 libraries?
A school library system vendor has "begun working on" the ability to automatically notify parents when their kids check a book out of the school library and to allow parents to prevent kids their kids from checking out books on certain topics. This sucks.
Feel free to let @FollettLearning know what you think :)
If you are a Follett Destiny library, now would be a very good time to talk to them about your concerns about the option being built into the systems that you and your students use.
Destiny? Like the video game?
bad game, bad streamer, now bad library technology.
the word is cursed I guess
Don't forget Manifest Destiny.
:astronaut-2::astronaut-1:
Probably because the word itself can be reactionary. It's the idea of people's actions being pre-determined or ordained by God or whatever, that people aren't accountable for things they do.