Horizon Information Portal

HSPLS site

eBooks/Audiobooks

Reading Program

Refuge of a scoundrel : the Patriot Act in libraries / Herbert N. Foerstel.

by Foerstel, Herbert N.

View full image

Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

United States. Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001.

Library records -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Library surveillance -- United States.

Bookstores -- Records and correspondence -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Libraries and state -- United States.

1591581397 (alk. paper) :

xiv, 218 p. : forms ; 24 cm.

Introduction -- ch. 1. A recent history of library surveillance -- Background -- The library awareness program -- Origins in the New York office -- The FBI meets Congress -- The controversy escalates -- It only hurts when we laugh -- A selective survey of library visits -- Winding down a troubled program -- The role of librarians in FBI surveillance -- The Special Libraries Association -- Librarians as potential KGB agents -- Paint the critics red -- The law and library surveillance -- Notes -- ch. 2. The USA Patriot Act -- Passage of the bill -- General provisions -- Provisions directly affecting libraries -- National security letters and emergency foreign intelligence warrants -- Sunsetted provisions -- Blurring the distinction between criminal justice and counterintelligence -- Notes -- ch. 3. The Patriot Act in libraries and bookstores -- Fearing the worst -- What are you going to do when they come for you? -- Destroying patron records before they can be seized -- FBI advice and reassurance -- Documenting those elusive federal visits to libraries -- Gag orders -- Notes -- ch. 4. Making things worse : government actions beyond the Patriot Act -- Executive orders, regulations, and administrative guidelines -- Homeland Security act -- Total information awareness -- TIPS program -- CAPPS II -- Patriot Act II and the Victory Act -- Ashcroft's national tour -- State anti-terrorism legislation in the wake of 9/11 -- Notes -- ch. 5. Fighting back : responses to the Patriot Act -- Congressional oversight of the Patriot Act -- Public oversight of the Patriot Act -- The Patriot Act in art and humor -- Legislative attempts to modify the Patriot Act -- State, local, and professional resolutions opposing the Patriot Act -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Ashcroft on the offensive -- The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? -- Notes -- Appendix A. Public libraries and civil liberties - questionnaire -- appendix B. California Library Association Patriot act survey -- appendix C. U.S. Attorney preservation demand letter -- appendix D. U.S. District Court ECPA Order w/schedule -- appendix E. U.S. District Court subpoena in a criminal case -- appendix F. U.S. District Court search warrant -- Selected bibliography -- Index.

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

Powered by Dynix

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.

Horizon Information Portal