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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:29:59 -0500
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Subject: [IFACTION:2420] Orders to purge records have librarians worried
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I am forwarding this item from ALA's intellectual freedom listserve. Just
curious if mappy titles have come up for return or destroy under orders
from GPO.

As I theoretically watch out for "freedom to read/intellectual freedom"
issues for the Map and Geography Round Table of ALA, I would like to hear
of any maps, atlases, geographic reports which are requested to be
withdrawn.

As Map Division, NYPL is not in the vicinity of the government documents
department here at NYPL, I might not hear about same as soon as others
might. Thanks in advance for your input.


Alice C. Hudson
Chief, Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788

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Librarians are protesting  government orders to destroy public information
in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.







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