The Steering Committee of CAPAL is troubled to learn that Access Copyright is taking legal action against a number of institutions which it claims “copy -and promote the copying – of copyright-protected materials without a licence.” (http://www.accesscopyright.ca/media/35670/2013-04-08_ac_statement.pdf) This includes York Continue reading Access Copyright Legal Action
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
L’Association des archivistes du Québec, l’Association canadienne des archivistes, et le Conseil canadien des archives ont publié une déclaration conjointe publique pour protester contre le nouveau « Code de conduite: Valeurs et éthique » annoncé par la Bibliothèque et Archives Continue reading Le « Code de conduite:Valeurs et éthique » de BAC — Nouvelles déclarations publiées
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”
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”
