Elisabeth:
News today that the DOJ has changed their mind about the removal of the
documents. Here's the info along with a couple of other unrelated items.
+ Fom the ALA Washington Office
UPDATE: Dept. of Justice Rescinds Withdrawal/Destruction of Publications
"As you know, on July 22, 2004, a notice was posted to FDLP-L advising
depository libraries that the Department of Justice had requested the
withdrawal of five publications that were intended for internal use only.
In response to the Government Printing Office's further inquiry into this
matter, the Department of Justice has requested that I advise depository
libraries to disregard the previous instructions to withdraw these
publications. In making this request, the Department of Justice said,
although these materials were "intended only for the internal training use
of Department of Justice personnel and, as such, were inappropriately
distributed to depository libraries through an administrative oversight,"
the Department has determined that these materials are "not sufficiently
sensitive to require removal from the depository library system." Since
1995, GPO has issued recall letters for 20 publications at the request of
the publishing agencies. Seven of these publications were recalled because
they were for official use or internal use only, as occurred in this
instance. Both GPO and the Department of Justice regret any inconvenience
resulting from the initial request for withdrawal."
This item is posted at:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2004/08/dept-of-justice-rescinds.html
and in other news...
++ The Vault, a well-known job and career info site has released
their 2005 Law Firm Prestige Rankings.
"Vault surveyed in excess of 14,000 associates at more than 100 major law
firms across the country and asked them to rank 150 firms in terms of how
prestigious it would be to work for them."
The Top 100 list is available for free. Other lists are fee-based.
http://www.vault.com/nr/lawrankings.jsp?law2005=1&ch_id=242
+++ Tomorrow.
"Two nationally-known companies will be named to compete to design a system
that will capture electronic information, regardless of its format, save
it permanently, and make it accessible on whatever hardware or software is
currently in use."
This announcement about the Electronic Records Archive will be webcast.
http://www.archives.gov/media_desk/press_releases/nr04-73.html
cheers,
gary
Gary D. Price, MLIS
Librarian
Gary Price Library Research and Internet Consulting
gary@freepint.com
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http://www.resourceshelf.com
>
> >FYI
> >
> >Statement regarding DOJ request for removal of government publications
> by
> >depository libraries
> >
> >The following statement has been issued by President-Elect Michael
> Gorman,
> >representing President Carol Brey-Casiano, who is currently in
> Guatemala
> >representing the Association:
> >
> >July 30, 2004
> >
> >Statement from ALA President-Elect Michael Gorman:
> >
> >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 these 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.
> >
> >The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how
> >citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the
> >government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and
> >destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select
> >Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes;
> Asset
> >forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset
> >Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).
> >
> >ALA has submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the
> >withdrawn materials in order to obtain an official response from the
> >Department of Justice regarding this unusual action, and why the
> >Department has requested that documents that have been available to the
> >public for as long as four years be removed from depository library
> >collections. ALA is committed to ensuring that public documents remain
> >available to the public and will do its best to bring about a
> satisfactory
> >resolution of this matter.
> >
> >Librarians should note that, according to policy 72, written
> authorization
> >from the Superintendent of Documents is required to remove any
> documents.
> >To this date no such written authorization in hard copy has been
> issued.
> >
> >Keith Michael Fiels
> >Executive Director
> >American Library Association
> >(800) 545-2433 ext.1392
>
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