[Opengenalliance] Fwd: Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered

[Javier Ruiz]

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From: "Ben Laurie" <ben at links.org>
Date: May 28, 2012 10:04 AM
Subject: Fwd: Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered
To: "Javier Ruiz" <javier at openrightsgroup.org>, "Nick Poole" <
nick at collectionstrust.org.uk>, "Camilla von Massenbach" <camilla at links.org>

Thought this might be of interest.

Very interesting meeting on Friday, I look forward to the next installment.

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From: Boing Boing: Cory Doctorow <bozo at dev.null.invalid>
Date: Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:00 AM
Subject: Canada's national archives being dismantled and scattered
To: ben+boingboing at links.org


Canada's national archives being dismantled and
scattered<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-xAVnMG_sFs/canadas-national-archives-be.html>A
reader writes,

 The Canadian government is slowly doing away with Canada's ability to
access its own history.

Library and Archives Canada's collection is being decentralized and
scattered across the country, often to private institutions, which will
limit access, making research difficult or next impossible. It should be
noted that Daniel Caron, the new National Archivist hired in 2009, doesn't
even have a background in library nor archives but, a background in
economics.

"The changes and cuts are being justified by reference to digitization. A
generous estimate is only 4% of the LAC collection has been digitized to
date -- a poor record that will be made worse by the cuts announced on
April 30, 2012, which reduced digitization staff by 50%."

 Save Library & Archives Canada
<http://www.savelibraryarchives.ca/update-2012-05.aspx>

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URL:
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