City Council Hearings Regarding The Giuliani Papers

On both February 20 and April 5, the City Council heard testimony from archivists, historians, legal experts and others who protested the control of former mayor Giuliani's offcial papers by a private archiving facility. Thus far, the Council has responded favorably to the testimony, and the coalition fighting to keep Giuliani's papers accessible to the public is hopeful that it might take action to resolve this crisis. Click on a link below to read a transcript of selected testimony.

February 27, 2003 Janet Linde, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York Gene Russianoff, New York Public Interest Research Group June 25, 2002 Testimony of the New York Civil Liberties Union April 5, 2002 Thomas Connors on behalf of the Society of American Archivists Testimony of Jeffery M. Flannery, The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Testimony of Janet Linde, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York Testimony of the New York Civil Liberties Union February 20, 2002 Mike Wallace, Director, Gotham Center; John Jay College Robert C. Morris, Director, National Archives & Records Administration - Northeast Region Donna Lieberman, Executive Director, New York Civil Liberties Union Gene Russianoff, Senior Attorney, New York Public Interest Reasearch Group, Inc. Geof Huth, New York State Caucus Chair, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Thomas Connors, Society of American Archivists Janet Linde, Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York Thomas Kessner, Graduate Center, City University of New York Idilio Gracia-Peña, Former Commissioner, NYC Department of Records and Information Resources