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"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]

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• Checking What You Check Out - Librarians unite against government\\'s new ability to peek at what usa patriot act you read. [Time Magazine]
• The Readers' Rights Project - Information and resources on the Patriot Act and library and information library and information science science library surveillance. From the Center for Cognitive Liberty library and library and information science information science and Ethics.
• Library Restrictions Borrow from Colonial-Era Abuses - Editorial comparing the colonial British suppression of media intellectual freedom with the FBI\\'s current powers to spy on intellectual freedom readers. [USA Today]
• FBI's Reading List Worries Librarians - "At New York City\\'s Queens Borough Public Library, director Gary intellectual freedom Strong is an uneasy draftee on the front line of intellectual freedom the war on terrorism." [USA Today]
• Library Records Post-Patriot Act - A chart of changed legal authorities, by Law Library Resource library and information science Xchange.
• Librarians Make Some Noise Over Patriot Act - "Concerns about privacy prompt some to warn patrons, usa patriot act intellectual freedom destroy records of book and computer use." [Washington usa patriot act intellectual freedom Post]
• ALA Council: Patriot Act a Danger - Report on a resolution passed against the act. [Library Journal]
• Five Technically Legal Signs for Your Library - PATRIOT Act awareness materials from librarian.net.
• Patriot Act Foes Say Tide Now Turning in Their Direction - Reviews legislation and lawsuits challenging the Patriot Act library and information science library provisions. [Publishers Weekly]
• The USA PATRIOT Act and Patron Privacy on Library Internet Terminals - Annotated bibliography and review of research.
• Librarians as FBI Extension Agents - Comments on the Patriot Act's Section 215. [CounterPunch]
• Reader Privacy - Details the impact of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act on reader privacy, and provides methods to protest to Congress plus an on-line petition.
• Freedom to Read / Big Brother Out of Our Libraries - Opinion piece against the act, concluding that "we run the usa patriot act risk of letting the terrorists claim victory by allowing their usa patriot act attacks to chip away at our constitutional rights." [San Francisco usa patriot act Chronicle]
• Privacy and Security: A Librarian's Dilemma - Editorial about library privacy laws. [San Francisco Chronicle]
• EPIC USA PATRIOT Act Page - Information overview and news updates from the Electronic library and information science Privacy Information Center.
• Librarians Heroes in War to Save Freedom - Commentary on "a battle to preserve Americans\' freedoms." [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
• The USA PATRIOT Act - Three librarians examine the act and how you intellectual freedom librarians can protect patron privacy without breaking the intellectual freedom law. [Library Journal]
• Librarians Receive Advice on Law and Reader Privacy - Report on a library teleconference about dealing with library and information science new legislation. [NY Times]
• Effects of the Patriot Act on Librarians - Slashdot article and discussion about the gag orders library and information science for FBI library investigations.
• Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers - Libraries destroy patron records to preserve privacy. [NY Times]
• Libraries Fear Loss of Privacy as FBI Searches for Terrorists - "Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, librarians library and information science across America have been waging their own struggle library and information science against what they regard as an attack on library and information science sacred ground: government intrusion into their patrons\\' reading library and information science records." [The Toledo Blade]
• Literary Groups Decry Patriot Act as Invasion of Privacy - Report on resistance to the Patriot Act. [The intellectual freedom Boston usa patriot act Globe]
• Online NewsHour: Libraries and Liberties - Transcript of a report on libraries and the Patriot Act. usa patriot act [PBS]
• Why the Patriot Act Worries Booksellers - Opinion piece by the owner of the Harvard Book Store. intellectual freedom [The Boston Globe]
• Defending the Right Right to Read - Bookstores and libraries are taking steps to protect their clients usa patriot act from what they say is a dangerously snooping government. [ABC usa patriot act News]
• Library Officials to Mull Privacy - Librarians\\' concerns about the Patriot Act and privacy. library and information science [The Valley Independent]
• Subversive Reading - Comments a face-off between the American Library Association and Attorney library and information science General John Ashcroft. [New York Times Magazine]
• PATRIOTS, ACT - Information article by Jessamyn West on the Patriot Act.
• No, YOU Check THIS Out: Librarians Respond To The USA PATRIOT Act - Summary essay by Jessamyn West on librarians\\' response library and information usa patriot act science to the act.
• Librarians are on Front Lines Against Easier Access to Records - "The public library in Boulder, the home of usa patriot act library and information science the University of Colorado, has adopted one of usa patriot act library and information science the country\\'s most aggressive policies to keep circulation usa patriot act library and information science records private." [The Boston Globe]

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