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BC Legislative Library
On Friday, March 16th, 2007 we learned the BC Government will be closing the Legislative Library for seismic upgrades. Here is what we know to date:
- The current staff of 29 will be reduced to 15. Places within other ministries have been found for seven of the displaced staff and there is optimism that no one will be laid off
- The bulk of the library's collection will be boxed up and sent to remote storage in Saanich (a suburb of Victoria) approximately 25 minutes from the Legislature while a small core collection will be kept at the library's temporary location. Assessments need to be taken to determine how much space is available to house this core collection and determine what it will comprise.
- The remaining staff hope to maintain a presence in the legislative building in the form of a staffed desk but this remains to be determined.
- The decisions regarding the future of the library are under the Speaker of the House. It will be discussed in the Legislative Assembly Member Services Committee (LAMSC) which is chaired by the Speaker and consists of 3 Liberals and two NDPers.
- The ACT indicates that the library needs to be near the building. Legislative Library Act
Articles
In the New Yorker: "Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents" http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton
Copyright to the extreme! Have a laugh at this satirical article: http://www.newstarget.com/022437.html . If you're not laughing yet, read the comments posted below, from some people who need to look up the word "satire" in the dictionary.
Archives
Information Policy
Everything you wanted to know about copyright, but were afraid to ask:
If you have, or maybe haven't, been following the buzz about Canada's new copyright legislation, law prof and blogger Michael Geist's interview with George Stroumboulopoulos on The Hour provides a pretty succienct overview.
Extra Curricular Reading
The Late Mattias Pascal by Luigi Pirandello, the connoisseur of black humour himself--and Italian to boot!
- A recommendation from Luciana Duranti to ARST 510-ers everywhere.
- Find out what Amazon has to say about it.
All the Names by Jose Saramago
- The story of a clerk in an archives.
- According to one SLAISer, "it will give you an idea of what to expect from your future workplace."
- Like Pirandello, Saramago is a Nobel Prize winner.
Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
- Every book in the series features a different kind of library, including a records library, and archival library, a grammar library, an understocked library, a forbidden library, and a burned down library.
- Hilarious.
The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown
- A recommendation from John Mac Donald (sessional instructor).
Secrecy, Archives, and the Public Interest by Howard Zinn
- An article by the radical historian, Howard Zinn, wherein he observes that archives archival collections are "biased towards the important and powerful people of the society, tending to ignore the impotent and obscure." Looks at archives from a political point of view.
And Extra Curricular watching!
CBC is airing a new series this fall, called "Who Do You Think You Are." Partnered with Library and Archives Canada and genealogists, they are tracing the family trees of Canadian celebrities like Steven Page (Barenaked Ladies), Shaun Majumder (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Margot Kidder (the original Lois Lane) and Chantal Kreviazuk (singer/songwriter). It airs Thursday nights at 7:30- check out http://www.cbc.ca/whodoyouthinkyouare/index.php
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