[Peace-discuss] Fwd: ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act, ILA Update # 4, 22 April 2003

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Subject: ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act, ILA Update # 4, 22
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>2003 ILA Update # 4
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>NEWS RELEASE
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>For immediate release		From:  Robert P. Doyle
>Tuesday, 22 April 2003		Illinois Library Association
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>ILA Adopts Resolution on the USA PATRIOT Act
>Illinois is the fifteenth state* to adopt a resolution regarding the 
>USA PATRIOT Act.  The resolution states, in part, that "Illinois 
>Library Association considers sections of the USA PATRIOT Act to be 
>a present danger to the constitutional rights and privacy rights of 
>library users and urges the United States Congress to:
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>1)	provide active oversight of the implementation of the USA 
>PATRIOT Act and other related measures, and the revised U.S. 
>Attorney General Guidelines to the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
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>2)	hold hearings to determine the extent of the surveillance on 
>library users and their communities; and
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>3)	amend or change the sections of these laws and the guidelines 
>that threaten or abridge the rights of inquiry and free expression."
>
>Illinois Library Association affirms and upholds efforts of all 
>libraries to adopt and implement patron privacy and record retention 
>policies that affirm that "the collection of personally identifiable 
>information should only be a matter of routine or policy when 
>necessary for the fulfillment of the mission of the library."  The 
>association further urges librarians everywhere to defend and 
>support user privacy and free and open access to knowledge and 
>information.  Finally, the association opposes any use of 
>governmental power to suppress the free and open exchange of 
>knowledge and information or to intimidate individuals exercising 
>free inquiry.
>
>On Tuesday, 13 May 2003, a delegation from the Illinois Library 
>Association will be speaking with our elected officials in 
>Washington, D.C.  The delegation will be delivering a number of key 
>library messages to our elected officials, including this recently 
>adopted resolution regarding the USA PATRIOT Act.  Traditionally, 
>the Illinois delegation to National Library Legislative Day is the 
>largest delegation in the nation.  To register for this event, the 
>form is available at www.ila.org/events/regforms/legis_day.pdf or 
>the February 2003 ILA Reporter, pages 31-32.
>
>For further information on the USA PATRIOT Act, see the April 2003 
>ILA Reporter, pages 14-15 or Privacy & Confidentiality in Libraries, 
>www.ila.org/advocacy/privacy.htm.  The full text of the resolution 
>is available on the ILA Web site at www.ila.org/advocacy.
>
>*  According to the ALA Web site, to date, the following state 
>library associations have passed resolutions regarding the USA 
>PATRIOT Act:  California (February 12), Connecticut (February 13), 
>Georgia (February 13), Kansas (January 31), Minnesota (February 21), 
>Missouri (February 28), New Hampshire (February 19), New Mexico 
>(January 31), New York (February 6), Texas (February 13), Vermont 
>(October 21), Virginia (February 7), Washington (February 14), and 
>Wisconsin (February 21). 
>
>This list was compiled from the ALA Web site 
>http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=IF_Resolutions&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=13887
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>Robert P. Doyle
>Illinois Library Association
>33 W. Grand Ave., Suite 301
>Chicago, IL  60610-4306
>phone:  312-644-1896
>fax:  312-644-1899
>www.ila.org


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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