SPRING BOOK SALE
April 25: Wed. from 3-6 pm
(Friends' Members Only)
April 26: Thur. from 10-5 pm (Open to the public)
April 27: Fri. from 9-4 pm (Open to the public)
April 28: Sat. from 9-4 pm (Open to the public/Special Bag-of-Books Sale)
You receive the first choices for the best-of-the-best titles on Wednesday as a special membership benefit. (Membership is also available at the door.)
The bargain prices are incredible! Yes, there are thousands of titles available.
Purchase books for yourself, your friends, your family, your neighbors, your schools and your organizations. Buy books as inexpensive gifts for later in the year or as occasions arise!
This issue of your newsletter, the Liaison, has some very unique articles that cover everything from a library project by an Eagle Scout to how much money your private information is sold for.
Please pass this email along to your friends and share what the Suntree/Viera Library means to you.
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Preview:
Privatization is not private - for
you
"Privatization"
is not the same as a "private" corporation or business.
People are often confused by the similarity of these words.
A private
corporation uses its private financial sources to profit itself.
Privatization is
when a private corporation is paid your taxes to take over a public
service while it is also allowed to make as much money as it can from
public services by creating fees, charges and any other methods it
chooses. It keeps the taxes and all other profits to itself. Win-win
for its own corporate wealth.
Below is just one
small example of how a private company can sell information about you
that public service employees must, by law, protect. This is true for
prisons, police departments, schools, libraries, animal services,
etc.
"Personal information: How much
profit per-sale can be made?
And your personal information is pretty
cheap as the following examples illustrate: address - $0.50; phone
number - $0.25; unpublished phone number - $17.50; cell phone number
- $10; Social Security number - $8; drivers license - $3;
marriage/divorce - $7.95; education background - $12; employment
history - $13; credit history - $9; bankruptcy information - $26.50;
shareholder information - $1.50; lawsuit history – $2.95; felony
record - $16; sex offender status - $13; and voter registration -
$0.25.
The leading data brokers are Acxiom,
ChoicePoint, Intelius, Lexis Nexis and US Search Profile. They
acquire, slice and dice your personal information as if they were
running sausage factories – and your personal life is the unlucky
pig."
[Source: www.turbulence.org]
Please note that there are about a half million people in Brevard County, and each individual can have their information sold to multiple sources annually. (You cannot do the math, but the private corporation will know the profit.) Actually, there is no way to know if, when or how your personal information would be sold. The corporation is private, and laws protect its corporate privacy.
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Welcome to the Suntree-Viera Friends of the Library site which brings you information about how you can help support your great library and communities!
Please become a member of Friends.
YOUR donations paid 100% for the Kids' Summer Reading Program and more.
The books you donate at the front desk and membership donations are the financial basis for book sales and library support. Thanks!
(See "up-to-date-news & links" for important news and the 2012 LIAISON SPRING NEWSLETTER)
Friends of the Suntree-Viera Library
902 Jordan Blass Drive
Melbourne, FL 32940
( 321) 255-4404
Library Hours:
Sunday: Closed
Monday and Tuesday: 9:00 - 8:00
Wednesday and Thursday: 10:00 - 6:00
Friday and Saturday: 9:00 - 5:00
E-BOOKS ARE NOW AVAILABLE - FREE.
Visit www.MyLibraryWorld.com
Or you may visit the full card catalog for Brevard at http://discover.mylibraryworld.com/
