Now that I'm fed and have had my Monica Vitti/Terence Stamp fix ;-)
Hysteria, huh? When I was still at the college, I belonged to the Voyager listserv (a list for users of the Voyager library software); the membership was predominantly American librarians and a couple of them HAD had law enforcement agents wanting to look through their records ... as I recall, the requests were in regard to particular patrons already under suspicion, not a general snoop through everybody's transactions. The Patriot Act has always been a major concern in the American library community; Endeavor (the maker of Voyager) was receiving requests and working on enhancements to allow purging of patron records without erasing materials use statistics while the thing was still in the proposal stage.
Heaven help OUR government if they try to pull a stunt like that ... it'd take 'em fifty years to undo all the privacy protection laws first ***grin***
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Date: 2003-09-24 08:10 pm (UTC)Hysteria, huh? When I was still at the college, I belonged to the Voyager listserv (a list for users of the Voyager library software); the membership was predominantly American librarians and a couple of them HAD had law enforcement agents wanting to look through their records ... as I recall, the requests were in regard to particular patrons already under suspicion, not a general snoop through everybody's transactions. The Patriot Act has always been a major concern in the American library community; Endeavor (the maker of Voyager) was receiving requests and working on enhancements to allow purging of patron records without erasing materials use statistics while the thing was still in the proposal stage.
Heaven help OUR government if they try to pull a stunt like that ... it'd take 'em fifty years to undo all the privacy protection laws first ***grin***