Robert Freeman, executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, will speak on “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Freedom of Access” on Monday, Oct. 29, at 3 p.m. in Reamer Auditorium.
His talk is in conjunction with “Documents Through the Decades,” an exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of Schaffer Library's designation as a Selective Federal Document Depository.
Pieces of American history from Union College's Government Documents collection are on display through Nov. 9 in the Lally Reading Room of Schaffer Library. They include the Pentagon Papers, Gemini photos of Earth, a 1942 publication on the internment of Japanese, and a 2000 document titled Patterns of Global Terrorism.
“I think people are unaware of what we have here,” says Donna Burton, reference librarian and government documents specialist, who has curated the exhibit. “If we lead them to (the documents collection) they are surprised.”