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- Title: Security, Access, Intellectual Freedom: Achieving Balance in a Global World (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 280 KB
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Abstract Security, privacy, access, and intellectual freedom are words that are loaded with emotional meaning and context for current societal issues. How do we ensure all without sacrificing or compromising others? Balancing a government's need to control information with the individual's right to freely access government information is a global concern that must be addressed. Following 9/11, this balance was challenged by the government limiting access to information, or in many cases removing it from access entirely. Challenges to access include: 1) restricting use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 2) increased secrecy within the government, and 3) removal of or disappearance of government information. This article will discuss the role and efforts of libraries and librarians to ensure public access to information. U.S. legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act and the USA Patriot Act and how it challenges access are explored. Efforts to restore the balance, by both the government and by those in the academic and journalism communities, will illustrate how both sides of the scale need to be examined so we can move forward.