Photo of Herb, an older man wearing a blue button down shirt. He has a mustache. He is sitting behind a cake decorated with chocolate frosting. It has two candles, an 8 and a 9 which are lit.

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   Jessamyn (jessamyn@glammr.us)'s status on Monday, 21-Oct-2024 07:55:39 JST Jessamyn

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   Herbert Foerstel was a science librarian at the University of MD. The FBI came to his library on a fishing expedition looking for patron records of people with "Eastern European or Russian-sounding names." He was not ok with this. Through FOIA requests, he was able to learn about the FBI's "Library Awareness Program" which he eventually wrote a book about, along with many other books about patron privacy and book banning in the US. This was a fun article to write.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Foerstel