Rich writes “Tuesday’s Boston Globe has an article on the growing opposition to the Patriot Act in Massachusetts.
“Dozens of Commonwealh libraries have purged lending records–or stopped keeping them–to protect patrons from federal agents newly empowered to monitor their reading habits.
“What people read is their own business and as professional librarians we don’t feel it’s appropriate to share that information,” said Ann Montgomery Smith, libarian at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and president of the Massachusetts Conference of Chief Librarians of Public Higher Educational Institutions.”
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