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Report on a library teleconference about dealing with new legislation. [NY Times]

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Librarians Receive Advice on Law and Reader Privacy Published: Thursday, December 12, 2002 WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 ? Concerned about how federal access to their records would undermine readers' privacy, thousands of librarians gathered today around the
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3. Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers

Library and Information Science > Intellectual Freedom > USA PATRIOT Act

Libraries destroy patron records to preserve privacy. [NY Times]

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Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers Published: Monday, April 7, 2003 SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 4 ? The humming noise from a back room of the central library here today was the sound of Barbara Gail Snider, a librarian,
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4. Subversive Reading

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Comments a face-off between the American Library Association and Attorney General John Ashcroft. [New York Times Magazine]

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Published: Sunday, September 28, 2003 From a certain perspective, there is something thrilling about the recent face-off between Attorney General John Ashcroft and the librarians. The American Library Association and many of its members, indignant
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5. Librarians Trade 'Shhh' for 'Va-Va-Voom'

Library and Information Science > Librariana > Librarians in Society

News of a pinup calendar featuring New Jersey librarians. [NY Times]

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Librarians Trade `Shhh' for `Va-Va-Voom' Published: Wednesday, January 1, 2003 TOMS RIVER, N.J., Dec. 31 ? As pinup calendars go, it has many of the standard features: models in black leather perched on beefy motorcycles. But the men and women on
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6. New York Historical Society

Research affiliation: Research Library Group.

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Chrysler Building, 1928-30 Designated as a landmark September 12, 1978 Photograph by Michael Kingsford New-York Historical Society Courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) New-York
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7. New York Public Library

Research affiliations: Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.

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© 2009 The New York Public Library 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10023-7498. 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, 10037-1801. 188 Madison Avenue, 10016-4314. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, 10018-2788. 917-ASK-NYPL (917-275-6975) 40 West 20th Street,
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8. New York State Library

Research affiliation: Association of Research Libraries, Research Library Group.

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The New York State Education Department (NYSED) network is currently unavailable due to scheduled infrastructure relocation. Because of this, all web services residing on the NYSED network are currently unavailable. These include, but are not
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9. Pierpont Morgan Library

Research affiliations: ACLS, Research Library Group.

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Located in midtown Manhattan, the Morgan houses one of the world's greatest collections of artistic, literary, and musical work, from ancient times to the medieval and Renaissance periods to the present day.
In 1891 Oscar Wilde met a young Oxford undergraduate named Lord Alfred Douglas, known to friends and family as Bosie, the youngest son of the ninth Marquess of Queensberry. This letter—the earliest to survive from the passionate (and tragic)

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10. New York University

Research collections include law, medical and dental studies, environmental medicine, real estate, mathematics, the fine arts, conservation, and near-Eastern studies. Research affiliations: Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, Center for Research Libraries, Research Library Group.

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