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Monday, 5th February 2007

NCLIS Restates Position on Federal Libraries and Access to Public Information

NCLIS Restates Position on Federal Libraries and Access to Public Information
3 pages; PDF.

From the opening paragraphs of the full text documents:
Beth Fitzsimmons, Chairman of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science NCLIS), has announced that the Commission discussed Federal libraries and access to public information held in Federal libraries at its last meeting. At the meeting, held December 11-12, 2006 in Washington, DC, the Commission addressed the issue of the closing of libraries at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and library closures and library service reductions at other Federal agencies.

At the NCLIS meeting, Vice-Chairman Bridget Lamont informed the Commission that this situation had been addressed by NCLIS before, and that in 2001 an important NCLIS report was published on the subject. In the report, A Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination, the Commission took a very strong position on the role of the Federal government in assuring access to Federal government information.

"The statutory role of the Commission is to provide policy advice to the President and Congress about matters pertaining to library and information science," said Dr. Fitzsimmons. "In her presentation to the Commission at the meeting, Vice-Chairman Lamont reminded us of our debt to previous Commissioners, and this report is an excellent case in point. This important document addresses many of the issues currently of concern in the scientific community and, particularly, in the library and information science profession. We have informed the President and Congress that this document should be re-visited, and it is the Commission's hope that the report will provide insight and help to governing authorities as this important issue is addressed.

See Also: Direct to Mention in the news release:
A Comprehensive Assessment of Public Information Dissemination
Summary (8 pages; PDF) ||| Full Text

Source: U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

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