Abstract

Government documents librarians may feel that periodic requests from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents to withdraw and destroy documents conflict with their responsibility to the library profession to resist censorship. This paper argues that government documents librarians have a prima facie duty to refuse to comply with official requests for document withdrawal and destruction, though in practice there may be countervailing reasons why such requests should be respected.

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