LAC’s “Code of Conduct:Ethics and Value” – New Statements Released

A joint public statement by the Association des archivistes du Québec, the Association of Canadian Archivists, and the Canadian Council of Archives issued a public statement protesting the new “Code of Conduct:  Ethics and Value” announced by the Library and Continue reading LAC’s “Code of Conduct:Ethics and Value” – New Statements Released

“Promoting Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Canadian Academic Librarians”

One of the issues that members of the CAPAL Steering Committee have discussed and the CAPAL membership-at-large have noted as important, is the issue of ethnic diversity in academic libraries and related matters pertaining to this topic in the work Continue reading “Promoting Racial and Ethnic Diversity among Canadian Academic Librarians”

Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms vis a vis Library Archives Canada’s “Code of Conduct”

In January 2013, Library and Archives Canada released to considerable debate and concern a Code of Conduct: Ethics and Values for its employees. The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians has examined this code of conduct and believes that several Continue reading Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms vis a vis Library Archives Canada’s “Code of Conduct”