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Information is both a social good, that should benefit the largest number of people in the most significant way possible, and a resource, that can be disseminated and withheld as a means of exerting power. The global access to information crisis accentuates the need for sustainable, coordinated efforts by institutions around the world to collect and preserve information and make it accessible. It is imperative that librarians, information professionals, information users, and other stakeholders develop resilient, sustainable collections that counter current disruptions and withstand future attacks. This talk proposes the development of Sustainable Information Access Goals (SIAGs) to serve as a framework for fostering resilient collections and protecting access to information globally.
Jennifer E. Chapman is the foreign, comparative and international law librarian at the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Law. Her recent publications include “Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures” in Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community and “Navigating the Legal Globe: Strategies for Foreign and Comparative Law Research” in Virginia Lawyer.