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https://www.wordsend.org/2004/01/18/libraries-and-privacy/ searching for the ineffable Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:52:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://www.wordsend.org/2004/01/18/libraries-and-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=306#comment-112 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.

]]> https://www.wordsend.org/2004/01/18/libraries-and-privacy/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Tue, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=306#comment-113 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.’

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