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Information Management

Research + Analysis

Classified Government Information: What Librarians Can Do Beyond the News

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

11:15am – 12:15pm CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom A (West Tower Gold Level)

Moderator/Coordinator(s)

Rebecca Chapman (she/her/hers)

Senior Assistant Law Librarian
Charles B. Sears Law Library, University at Buffalo School of Law (SUNY)
Buffalo, New York, United States

Slides (PDF) Handouts

Speaker(s)

Don McIlwain

Director
National Archives and Records Administration
Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Wordly Closed Captioning: https://attend.wordly.ai/join/HWNA-3354

If you have been watching the news, then you know that classified government information has become a big part of the news cycle. Everyone wants to know what it is, what counts as classified information, what that means, and what it means to violate some of the statutes and executive orders around the subject. Join us for a one-hour program where we dive into the questions of what constitutes classified information, what is the scope and breadth of it, what laws center on the subject, what it means to violate some of those laws, and what librarians can do when faced with classified information and a researcher that wants to use it.

Target Audience:

Directors, Managers, Reference Librarians, and Staff, as well as anyone interested in classified information and managing the surrounding issues.

This program is sponsored by the Government Documents SIS (GD-SIS).

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to identify what items fall under classified information and what sort of items may be in their own collections.
Participants will be able to list five reliable sources of classified information.
Participants will be able to utilize effective strategies, including the risks of use, obtain guidance, and manage reference interactions with scholars seeking to use classified information.