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--- Forwarded Message from Jim Hogg <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 15:40:00 -0400
>From: Jim Hogg <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7135.12 lab attendance tracking (!)
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> I forgot to mention another issue that also turned us from this...
> there isn't a library in the free world that will report to a third
> party just who has materials checked out (well, at least they
> shouldn't).


Unless the third party is the government of the United States. Part of 
the Patriot Act made into law after the attacks on 9/11/01 allows the 
government to get checkout information from libraries. In fact if they 
are investigating a library patron, a librarian cannot disclose to 
anyone that the patron is being investigated. By third party were you 
excluding the government? I wonder if language centers would be 
considered as libraries in this sense. The FBI may very well be 
interested in Arabic language students. That would be reason enough not 
to have tracking information associated with a particular individual in 
my opinion. I hadn't even thought about this before. Very interesting.

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