You need to understand that privacy in the US is on a whole different level as compared to privacy laws in Germany. What appears to be an admirable effort by l

You need to understand that privacy in the US is on a whole different level as compared to privacy laws in Germany. What appears to be an admirable effort by librarians to Americans would still be a gross violation of privacy over here. For instance, did you know that Apache logfiles are technically forbidden over here because they contain IP adresses which can be traced back to individual users? Now, during my Student years in the early 2000s, I jobbed in a large University library in southern Germany. Systems were compartilized and there were organizational firewalls between departments so people without a need to know had no way to determine circulation records of or by anyone.