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Letter to the editor in this morning's NY Times



Dear colleagues:

I thought you might like to see this letter from today's New York Times.

Greg Hunter



>
> February 13, 2002
> The Giuliani Papers
> To the Editor:
> Re "Giuliani Defends Removing Papers From City Control" (news article,
> Feb. 6):
> Rudolph W. Giuliani still does not seem to grasp the need for the public
> to have access to the important papers of his mayoralty. The removal of
> his official records from public control attacks a basic American value -
> that public records should be under the control of public institutions.
> A basic tenet of American archival tradition is that professionally
> trained government archivists should process government records. Even at
> the presidential libraries, the archivists work for the National Archives,
> not the former presidents.
> At a time of renewed commitment to the values of our nation, the transfer
> of public records to private control is unseemly at best.
> GREGORY S. HUNTER
> Mineola, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2002
> The writer, a certified archivist, is an associate professor, Palmer
> School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University.
>
>
>
>

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Gregory S. Hunter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY  11548
(516) 299-2171
(516) 299-4168 (fax)
ghunter@liu.edu

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