A lot of people were worried that challenges would go up under President Bush, but the highest numbers were during the Clinton administration, ... I think that came from resentment among conservatives that Bill Clinton was president. You had the whole thing about gays in the military. You had people who believed that somehow Clinton was not a legitimate president.

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The history of electronic technology has been that once a new capability emerges, someone finds ways to go around ... protections - in this case potentially avoiding payment to authors. I can't believe that, if [Google] were to go ahead with this, that someone, somewhere wouldn't find a way to illegally exploit it.

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These are just the challenges that we've heard of, ... It's estimated that there are probably four to five times as many that we don't hear about.

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The voices and stories of gays and lesbians cannot be silenced in our culture or on our bookshelves.

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The American Library Association (ALA) is saddened by the tragic loss of life and widespread damage to homes and communities by Hurricane Katrina, ... Libraries are an indispensable part of their communities, providing support and resources for everyone. Dozens of libraries in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama need our assistance so they, in turn, can meet the many needs of their communities.

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There are times when I've been so depressed I can't see straight. At my age I should have been 80 percent in bonds. I could have had a comfortable income sitting on my duff. Instead, I had to go back to work.

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It's a perpetual problem, and it attacks fundamental American liberties -- the attempt to impose one's own positions on society as a whole.

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[ALA officials said they are battling these efforts as contrary to the nation's tradition of intellectual freedom.] It all comes down to the imposition of your views on other people, ... To be honest, it seems to me to be downright un-American.

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This is a project that is being done because they have the resources to do it and [because] people have gone overboard in their [eagerness] to digitize everything.

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