Registration for the Borders Without Borders CAPAL annual conference at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences 2014 at Brock University, May 25-26. Click on the tab on the upper menu, 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE to review the current highlights and Continue reading Early Bird Savings Until March 31, 2014 for the Conference 2014
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/purge-of-canadas-fisheries-libraries-a-historic-loss-scientists-say/article16237051/ The facts on library consolidation at Fisheries and Oceans http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2014/20140107-en.html Scientists say DFO library closure defence “doesn’t add up” http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/01/08/Scientists-Say-DFOs-Library-Closure-Defence-Doesnt-Add-Up/ [Canadian] government cutting more than $100 million related to protection of water http://o.canada.com/technology/environment/harper-government-cutting-more-than-100-million-related-to-protection-of-water/
The Royal Society of Canada’s panel on the status and future of Canada’s libraries and archives is holding a consultation at the University of Toronto on the afternoon of January 16 from 1:30 to 4:30 in Room 4422 at OISE, Continue reading Royal Society of Canada, Expert Panel on Future of Library and Archives Canada at UofT
See today’s opinion piece in the New York Sunday Times, Jan. 5, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/silencing-scientists.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&
For what has been financially gained, the loss is scandalous. See the report in the Huffington Post, Jan. 3, 2014 entitled, “How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre” which states: “Scientists are calling it “libricide.” Seven of the nine Continue reading New Information about the closure of major science research libraries in Canada…
