Academic Libraries and Classified Documents
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- February 28, 2019
- Creator
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Cheng, Christine
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- Classified national security information, as governed by the most recent presidential directive, is not always as securely protected as it should be. Sometimes classified documents get mixed in with the files of Congressional members. If former members decide to donate their personal papers, these documents may appear in the special collections of libraries. This study is a survey of a number of academic libraries that keep classified documents outside of government control in their holdings. The results reveal how many participant libraries house congressional records and the amount that have classified items in their collections. The results also provide an account of how many respondents have policies, or if none exist - then a general understanding - about the handling of classified documents. The findings indicate how prevalent the existence of classified documents is in library collections.
- Date of publication
- April 2011
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- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Rowe, Beth L.
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Language
- Extent
- 48
- Deposit record
- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
- Access right
- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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