CAPAL supports the appointment of a professional librarian and/or archivist, to the position of Deputy Head and Librarian and Archivist of Canada. In addition CAPAL endorses the list of qualities as outlined in the Joint Statement on Qualities of a Continue reading CAPAL Supports Appointment of Professional Librarian or Archivist at LAC (update)
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
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”
See http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/03/10/historical_letters_not_wanted_at_library_and_archives_canada_critics_say.print.html
EX LIBRIS ASSOCIATION STATEMENT ON LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA – Feb. 2013 After 2004, when the functions of a national library, archives, and potential museum were assumed by LAC under new legislation, various studies were undertaken to determine what LAC Continue reading EX LIBRIS ASSOCIATION Call for a Parliamentary Review of Libraries and Archives Canada
