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...sheet tells Harvard’s librarians how to respond to unexpected requests for information from federal agents. Since Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act passed in October 2001, government officials no longer need a court order to review records—including users’ borrowing histories—at libraries and bookstores across the nation...
Concern at Harvard peaked at a series of Faculty meetings last spring, when some faculty members criticized the Patriot Act’s library clause as a violation of their academic freedom. Some expressed concern that the nature of their own research could be misinterpreted if it were to come under scrutiny by federal agents not acquainted with their fields...
Sidney Verba ’53, Pforzheimer University professor and director of the University Library, says he was concerned about the intellectual integrity of Harvard’s libraries—10 divisions of the Harvard College Library and 90 University-wide—following the passage of the Patriot...
...various concerns people had about the Patriot Act, I think that this was a very legitimate one,” he says. “We take the Library and free access to it and the like very seriously...
Many faculty members agree. John Womack Jr., Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, said he was concerned about the influence the Patriot Act could have on his own research, which sometimes brings him into contact with materials that could conceivably be traceable to Latin American terrorist organizations...