Libraries are a haven where people should be able to seek whatever information they want to pursue without any threat of government intervention.
Joan Airoldi, the director of the Whatcom County Library System
Much of my growing up took place in the adorably tiny Deming Library, in the very northwest corner of the United States. When Airoldi refused to release information about patrons to the FBI acting under the Patriot Act, she received national recognition, and the Deming Library was called The Little Library That Wouldn’t.