Dept of Justice Rescinds Order for Libraries to Destroy Documents

Fang-Face writes “There is
a very brief follow up at American Libraries Online about that DOJ order to destroy five pamphlets dealing with asset forfeiture. In a nut shell: the order has been rescinded.“

July 31, 2004 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. donwarnersaklad says:
    July 31, 2004 at 10:26 pm

    Ignorance. Intellectual freedom advocatelibrarians
    The general ignorance among intellectual freedom advocate librarians when it
    comes to municipal public documents affects the quality of our cities’
    public libraries.

    The collecting, acquiring and accessioning of municipal public documents needs
    to be made an more of an intellectual freedom issue when city hall is not
    providing transmittal of public documents of city departments.

    In the case of our Boston government documents, Boston Public Library president
    Bernie Margolis and government documents curator G. Fithian have not asked
    for a mayoral directive, have not asked for a city council order that would
    require the more regular transmittal to our public library of city department
    publications and grey literature http://greynet.org

    Denial is rife among the so called experts when greater leadership is needed
    that our cities’ current public documents and grey literature http://greynet.org
    is available at our cities’ public libraries.

    Collaborative WebLog
    http://guidetoproblematicallibraryuse.library-blog s.net/

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  2. Daniel says:
    August 1, 2004 at 11:47 pm

    Ironic
    I suspect that we won’t see future editions of these titles.

    The ironic part is that if DOJ had simply stopped sending future editions to GPO and asked for the “Depository Item Number” to be made inactive, I doubt more than a depository or two would have noticed. Now asset forfeiture is a hot book topic.

    I work in a selective depository, but so far, none of the “high-profile” withdrawals (Water CD, DOJ asset forefeiture documents) have been selections in my library.

    Overall, I’d say I prefer gov’t attacks on freedom of information be as ham-fisted as this one was. Those are much easier to counter! 🙂

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