Interlibrary Loan Monitoring Story Smelling Fishy

[Ruby Romaine]

There is now another version of this story about a Dartmouth student who received a visit from Homeland Security after requesting an original version of Mao's Little Red Book. The latest version takes place at University of California/Santa Cruz and mentions History Professor Bruce Levine. I emailed Levine to see if he could verify the story, but my email was the first he'd heard about it. He was a bit amused, as his specialty is Civil War history, and curious about his name got tacked on to the story. ALA's Public Information Office is digging into the story as well. More details as they become available!
http://www.lisnews.com/
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The bit about student needing to give his SSN to get an ILL book set off flags for me.
I can't think of a library anywhere that would require a SSN.