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>Last week, the American Library Association learned that the Department
of 
>Justice asked the Government Printing Office Superintendent of Documents 
>to instruct depository libraries to destroy five publications the 
>Department has deemed not "appropriate for external use." The Department 
>of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are 
>texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and 
>destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a 
>law office or law library.

This has been resolved.  Unfortunately so much information has already
been 
removed  by similar orders.  Good thing we don't have partisan people 
managing this stuff.

>-- 8/3/2004
>DOJ Reverses Documents Order After Librarian Protest

<http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=news&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=72230>

>http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA441047?display=breakingNews
>
>After a government documents recall notice posted on the Government
>Printing Office (GPO) web site generated strong reactions from
librarians,
>the Department of Justice (DOJ) said late last week that depository
>libraries could keep the disputed materials on their shelves after all.


                                           Scott Peterson

--
The world is full of willing people:
some willing to work and some willing
to let them.


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