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(Editor's Note: This marks the first published "Letter to the Editor". It is not meant to criticize anyone but to raise a valid point regarding patron privacy. What do we mean when we say patron privacy? Does it only apply to the materials that are checked out? I feel many of us might have done the same … but should we? -- Susan Babb, Editor)

"I am glad the adoption story on p.9 of the recent (May) NMRLS newsletter had a happy ending. But I was surprised to see what the library staff member had done. Isn't it a violation of patron confidentiality to have told the young couple the woman's name? What if the older woman didn't want to be faced with her daughter whom she had given up for adoption decades ago?"

Virginia Bowen, LMS
Marblehead High School