More on the USA Patriot Act....How strongly do librarians oppose the provisions in the act that allow the FBI to seize borrowing records and keep the seizure a secret? They are willing to destroy the records first. Librarians at a national teleconference "offered one consistent piece of advice: the fewer records that were kept, the less information the government could see. Even necessary records should be promptly destroyed after use." (Thanks to LawMeme.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 12/12/2002 04:29:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
