Do you really think the FBI believes that asking librarians to keep records of customer useage is an efficient way to read the customers minds? Do you really think that the FBI foreign counter-intelligence squad has nothing better to do than keep a database of who is reading Che Guevara memoirs?
Yes.
Heck, I remember this was a big issue about 15 years ago. Try asking someone who was active in library science in the late 70's, early 80's.
The general reaction of the library community was, I am glad to say, entirely pro-privacy.
Ask Sean at dra.com. The s/w industry even designs library systems so as to purge data the Feebs might want. That that does not exist can not be surrendered. And this is not a cost-free choice to them. There is & will be a percentage of book vandals. If your circulation system could tell you: Who checked out X, Y, Z & T? You might catch the creeps. But they prefer buying new books to the alternative.... -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433