WLUFA

Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty Association

Month: June 2013

2013 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award

CAUT is soliciting nominations for the 2013 CAUT Distinguished Academic Award. The Award is given annually to recognize an academic who has excelled in each of the three principal aspects of academic life: teaching, research, and service to the institution and to the community. The recipient will be an individual whose teaching, research and service […]

Cecret agreement to privatize digitizing LAC records

Greetings,   In light of the discussions over the past several days about the secret agreement to privatize digitizing LAC records, I thought you would like to see the article in today’s Ottawa Citizen “Former Library and Archives Canada boss criticizes private digitizing deal.”   Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada Ian Wilson  finds the deal […]

Minister Moore and opposition critics

Greetings,   We want to thank the many of you who have written to Minister Moore and opposition critics about the secret agreement to outsource digitization of Library and Archives (LAC) material to the consortium Canadiana.org.   Our concerns about the project have been several:   (1) This whole arrangement was negotiated in secret without […]

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