Resource Center: Libraries/Library and Information Science/Intellectual Freedom/USA PATRIOT Act

ALA Council: Patriot Act a Danger

http://www.libraryjournal.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA274528

Report on a resolution passed against the act. [Library Journal]

Checking What You Check Out

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,449469,00.html

Librarians unite against government's new ability to peek at what you read. [Time Magazine]

Defending the Right Right to Read

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90681&page=1

Bookstores and libraries are taking steps to protect their clients from what they say is a dangerously snooping government. [ABC News]

Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/20/1525253

Slashdot article and discussion about the gag orders for FBI library investigations.

EPIC USA PATRIOT Act Page

http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/

Information overview and news updates from the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

FBI's Reading List Worries Librarians

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-12-16-librarians-usat_x.htm

"At New York City's Queens Borough Public Library, director Gary Strong is an uneasy draftee on the front line of the war on terrorism." [USA Today]

Five Technically Legal Signs for Your Library

http://www.librarian.net/technicality.html

PATRIOT Act awareness materials from librarian.net.

Freedom to Read / Big Brother Out of Our Libraries

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2003/05/29/ED237674.DTL

Opinion piece against the act, concluding that "we run the risk of letting the terrorists claim victory by allowing their attacks to chip away at our constitutional rights." [San Francisco Chronicle]

Librarians are on Front Lines Against Easier Access to Records

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/08/librarians_are_on_front_lines_against_easier_access_to_records/

"The public library in Boulder, the home of the University of Colorado, has adopted one of the country's most aggressive policies to keep circulation records private." [The Boston Globe]

Librarians as FBI Extension Agents

http://www.counterpunch.com/price03062003.html

Comments on the Patriot Act's Section 215. [CounterPunch]

Librarians Heroes in War to Save Freedom

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/121307_shaplibcol.html

Commentary on "a battle to preserve Americans' freedoms." [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

Librarians Make Some Noise Over Patriot Act

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A1481-2003Apr9

"Concerns about privacy prompt some to warn patrons, destroy records of book and computer use." [Washington Post]

Librarians Receive Advice on Law and Reader Privacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/12/politics/12LIBR.html

Report on a library teleconference about dealing with new legislation. [NY Times]

Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/07/national/07LIBR.html

Libraries destroy patron records to preserve privacy. [NY Times]

Libraries Fear Loss of Privacy as FBI Searches for Terrorists

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20030223&Category=NEWS15&ArtNo=102230078

"Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, librarians across America have been waging their own struggle against what they regard as an attack on sacred ground: government intrusion into their patrons' reading records." [The Toledo Blade]