Finding the Unfindable in an Access to Information Crisis
In an earlier post on this blog I wrote about the Access to Information Crisis precipitated by the current Administration’s removal or altering of information and chilling of speech. Since I wrote that post things haven’t gotten better: government information continues to be removed or altered; Executive Orders targeting law firms, non-profits, higher education, and other institutions and individuals are chilling speech; and now the dismantling of agencies, like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is directly targeting archives and libraries. Our ability to find, access, and use information is rapidly deteriorating. As librarians we pride ourselves on finding the unfindable, but finding the unfindable is becoming harder or impossible.