More than 200,000 petitions have been gathered to repeal the section of the Patriot Act that pertains to libraries. “The Campaign for Reader Privacy has been collecting petitions at libraries and bookstores since March 2004. It gathered 100,000 last year. Supporters are the Association of American Publishers, the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association and PEN American Center. There’s more urgency this year because of the law’s expiration date.”