Ley de acceso a la información pública, bibliotecarios y archivistas = Mexican freedom of information act, librarians and archivists

Abstract

This article analyses the importance for Mexico to legislate in favor of the Federal Law of Freedom of Access to the Public Governmental Information and Transparency to avoid the corruption in the government and to guarantee society their rights to information for their development and betterment of their lives. It arguments and criticizes that the major stakeholders performing on this debate have left librarians and archivists out when they historically have been the experts to collect, process, organize, disseminate and guarantee society an effective and efficient access to such information. It advocates for the welfare of librarians and archivists and call them to play a leadership role on the debate of this law in order to get better labor and wages conditions, and it projects that if these stakeholders be left out of this debate and the actual passing of this law, the Mexican society will be on risk to have a written law on freedom to public government information, but not an effective access to such information, since only librarians, archivists and information workers are the better trained for those tasks, but today they are excluded.