It’s so much easier to throw up the smaller updates once you’re done with the larger one.
Remember when the gummint made waves, trying to track terrorists and similar undesirables through library records? Well, this is heartening, at least.
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I happen to be friends with a librarian and have met some of her librarian friends on occasion. Apparently there are lots of librarians who believe in not keeping these records–and not for financial reasons, but for privacy reasons. I don’t know how universal it is at all, and I’m not going to try to guess based on the nature of the core service librarians supply, but I’ll just point out that I bet most librarians are pretty strongly anti-censorship, and let you draw conclusions from there.
S’true. When Congress laid upon us the multi-ton cowpie which is The Patriot Act, the library system for which I work re-examined all information retention policies to determine what records we could throw away without actually losing functionality as a library. Several libraries’ policies were re-written, or written for the first time, and not one resulting version would be called ‘law-enforcement friendly.’