In the New York Times today (April 8)... "Librarians Use Shredder to Show Opposition to New F.B.I. Powers". It starts off with a description of librarians in the Santa Cruz Public Library system doing a daily shred of patron activity documents. They were also one of the first library systems in the country to post signs warning patrons of the implications of the PATRIOT act. They're even now handing out flyers that go into more details about their concerns, and they are reviewing their records to make sure they're only keeping what they need to.
Depressingly, though, a survey by the Library Research Center at the University of Illinois last fall found that almost half of all responding libraries had complied with law enforcement requests for information on their patrons.
The library's board has issued a resolution on the PATRIOT act.
(I went to UCSC, and did a freelance project a few years ago for the Santa Cruz Public Library's website)
