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How to read public information without a budget for retrieval



How would any citizen read state local public
information
http://www.state.ma.us/sec/arc/arcrmu/rmuidx.htm

when you have no budget for retrieval or
photocopying?,,,



In spite of  Free to All
engraved in stone over the entrance
http://www.bpl.org/WWW/generalinfo/mission.html
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/reviews/br-vanslyck.html


and after too long denials and delays, recently
our regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
City of Boston Public Library Departments'
Director of Operations Ruth Kowal
http://www.bpl.org/www/news/directors.html

indicated availability of disclosure for public
archives with payment of rather inhibiting fees.

Similarly City Council minutes have not been available
to citizens because of prohibitive fees for cable
television video recordings or prohibitive fees for
council chambers stenographic transcription produced
for our City Clerk already.




I remain, as always, one among many advocates for
letting the sun shine on city hall's open government!

oo-- dWs
Guide to Problematical Library Use
http://guidetoproblematicallibraryuse.weblogs.com/stories

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