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

[Ben Clark]

Disgusting news, thanks for sharing. I come from the UK originally and so
feel just in saying why is it that it's always the Conservative's that make
these idiotic cuts? The UK lost its aviation industry, Canada experience
the same after the Avro Arrow, now again the Conservative government seeks
to close the Canadian Air & Space Museum and now the LAC, next thing
they'll start closing parliament!

On 28 May 2012 06:37, Javier Ruiz <javier at openrightsgroup.org> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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>
>
>  <http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=64e444f75abeb3eef34afc6a89ef19a0&p=1>
>
> URL:
> http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-xAVnMG_sFs/canadas-national-archives-be.html
>
>
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