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 […]
Month: June 2013
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 […]
Canada’s Past Matters – Save Library and Archives Canada
Greetings, We learned today that Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is planning to turn over exclusive rights to millions of its holdings of publically-owned books and artefacts to a private consortium to make available digitally for the next ten years. During that time, access to these LAC holdings will require payment to the private […]