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Library and Technology Services fully subscribes to the Library Bill of Rights and the Intellectual Freedom Principles for Academic Libraries, approved by the Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors in 1999. "A strong intellectual freedom perspective is critical to the development of academic library collections and services that dispassionately meet the education and research needs of a college or university community. The privacy of library users is and must be inviolable."
In order to uphold and support the intellectual freedom of its user community, the Library and Technology Services Department maintains confidentiality of all library borrowing records and of other information relating to personal use of library information and services. All library employees with access to circulation records or any other personal information about library staff or library users will not divulge such information to anyone except the borrower him/herself.
If and when an employee of LTS is asked by an official representative of a government agency for this kind of information, he/she will immediately refer the agent to LTS designated legal liaison, who will then direct the requester to the University General Counsel. This is true even if the agent produces a subpoena or a search warrant. University Counsel will review the documentation and work with library staff to comply with its demands.
