Introduction
The Ionian University, School of Information Science and Informatics, Depart-
ment of Archive and Library Sciences, in collaboration with LiSS (Living in Sur-
veillance Societies Programme), organized a workshop titled ‘Surveillance in
Academia’, which took place in Athens, February 23-24, 2012. A series of pa-
pers were presented in the two-days seminar, in which more than 25 speakers
discussed their work together in Athens. The Seminar was selected for funding
after a review process of many workshop proposals, by the European LiSS Man-
agement Committee. This volume is the workshop’s proceedings, where some pa-
pers from the International Conference on Information Law and Ethics 2011 and
2012 were added, to make a more complete work. The aim is to offer a volume
not only on surveillance in connection to academia, although this is the main
theme, but more widely, on modern privacy issues as well. Twenty one papers
comprise this volume.
I thank Professor William Webster, Chair of LiSS, for his constant support of my
work and especially of this Seminar. I could not be more grateful. I thank Ass.
Professor and Head of the Library of the Hellenic-American University in Ath-
ens, Dr. Roxana Theodorou for her participation and the wonderful poster she
designed for the Seminar. I thank Dr. Andreas Giannakoulopoulos, Lecturer, Io-
nian University and Mrs. Roubini Oikonomidou, MSc., for the beautiful website
they designed and run, for the Seminar. I thank my publisher, Nomiki Bibliothiki
–thank you Lila Karatza!-for hosting the seminar in one of the most inspiring ven-
ues in Athens, Lycavittos Hall. I thank Theodore Mastrogiannis, Art director of
this edition, Andreas Menounos, producer, and Aristea Diakomopoulou and The-
oni Charalabaki. I thank you all for your excellent work and patience.
I thank all the colleagues who accepted the invitation and came to present their
work, especially Mihalis Lianos, Professor, who flew in from France, Nikitas
Hatzimihail, Assoc. Professor, who flew in from Cyprus and Minas Samatas, Pro-
fessor, who came from Crete. I believe all of us will have a very positive recollec-
tion of this workshop, as evident also from the photos we have uploaded in the
workshop site (
). This is the kind of
work academia is about, and I am grateful to all participants for these two days
in Athens, in late February 2012.
Maria Bottis
Ass. Professor
Information Law
