Resisting Censorship and Defending the Integrity of Federally Supported Information | Schiff | DttP: Documents to the People

"Federal information is under significant threat from the Trump administration’s unprecedented levels of censorship, expressed through direct suppression of specific terms, distortion and deletion of research, and targeted cuts to agencies’ funding and staffing that are the engine of federal information generation. These acts challenge the ongoing development and integrity of the federal research record and impede public access to that record. A flourishing, democratic society requires the free flow of reliable government-sponsored information, from its creation by qualified researchers to its use by other scholars and the general public. Ensuring access to reliable information is foundational to the profession of librarianship; as librarians, we must now work to protect that principle as it is being deliberately dismantled."