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The President's Papers Are the People's Business

                                How can a democratic people have confidence
in elected officials who hide the records of their actions from public view?

                                        On Nov. 1, with no announcement,
President Bush signed Executive Order 13233, overriding the 1978
Presidential Records Act, which provides that a president's papers will be
made available to the public 12 years after he leaves office. Bush's new
order gives the White House, as well as former presidents, the right to veto
this release of documents, thereby taking the responsibility for
administering presidential papers away from the archivist of the United
States. By forcing citizens to go to court to obtain the right to view an
administration's records, the order effectively blocks access to information
that enables Americans to hold our presidents accountable for their actions.

                                                Steve Hensen, Washington
Post, 12/16/01

The School of Information and Library Science (SILS) and the Student Chapter
of the Society of American Archivists (SCOSAA) are pleased to announce that
they will host a presentation by Steven Hensen, President of the Society of
American Archivists and Assistant Director, Special Collections Library,
Duke University, concerning Executive Order 13233 and its impact on
information access in a free and open democracy.

Please attend this talk and discussion on this very timely and important
topic and pass this announcement along....


February 14, 2001
Pleasants Room, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:00 PM, Reception to follow

For more commentary on this topic please visit the Society of American
Archivists' website at www.archivists.org <http://www.archivists.org>

Dr. Helen R. Tibbo
Frances Carroll McColl Term Professor
School of Information and Library Science
201 Manning Hall CB#3360
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
Phone: 919.962.8063
SILS Office: 919.962.8366
Fax: 919.962.8071
Email: tibbo@ils.unc.edu

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