I am president of my local library board. The frightening thing is that the Feds now have authority to come in and ask for the reading habits of patrons if they chose to do that. Patriot Act. Great acronym for something it is not.

The policy of the ALA, and ours, is to ask for a supboena. In addition, our computers (ah what happened to the kindly ladies with the pencils that had a stamp at the other end to tell you when the book was due)are programmed not to store any patron's use in memory. Only overdue books are stored there.

As to the thoughts above about the teen-ager's situation vis a vis birth control and such subjects.   What a sad state of affairs when we limit our youth in garnering information to, perhaps, help them in making safe and sane decisions regarding their lives and sexual habits.   The prurient always seem to feel they have to instill their values on the masses and the self serving politicos go along for some votes. W being no exception---though he may really believe this (expletive deleted). What do we get---AIDS. Among other things.   

Bill Hahn