As is occasionally my habit when a big story breaks, I have gathered together all the relevant documents I could find concerning the recent controversy about the Canadian Conservative government's recent consolidation of the libraries at their Department of Fisheries & Oceans. The consolidation has resulted in severely weeded collections, library closures and staff layoffs.
I have more to say on the situation, probably next week, but I thought I'd compile this list first both for the common good and to help me frame my own thoughts.
As usual, if you note any errors or omissions in my, please let me know in the comments or by email. You can reach me at my work email, jdupuis at yorku dot ca, or my personal email, dupuisj at gmail dot com.
We haven't heard much from librarians at the DFO, so I'd very much welcome such feedback, either in the comments or via email. Please let us all know the details of what is going on, particularly with regards to how carefully and thoroughly the weeding was done as well as details on planning and resourcing for document delivery and digitization. Your anonymity will be respected.
General Resources
- Save Ocean Science -- resource site with many links to articles, etc.
- Internal government memo related to DFO cuts, including libraries
- Cuts and Closures at Canada’s federal libraries
- The Council of Fisheries and Oceans Librarians -- Twenty Five Years and Still Going Strong by Gordon Miller, Pamela L. Olson and Anna Fiander
- Evidence for Democracy online letter-writing campaign to save DFO libraries
- Original source of book dumpster picture & libricide term
- Related: Evironment Canada Comment on Closing of Libraries
- DFO Library Closures a Disaster, undated from the Atlantic Salmon Federation
- Wikipedia List of destroyed libraries
- Information via Access to Information Request Re: DFO Library Closures
- >What do you think of the DFO library consolidation? (Rabble.ca reader poll)
- Comments for the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on the Future of Libraries and Archives in Canada by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT)
- Unprecedented number of cuts to library programs in Canada (Timeline by Ontario Library Association)
- TIME LINE: The Closure of Canadian Government Libraries, Archives and Research Collections by Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
- When a Library Shuts Its Doors: Collections and Information Services After a Library Closure by Tara E. Murray
- Sauvons la bibliothèque de l'Institut Maurice-Lamontagne (Facebook page)
- Library Science (LS) Positions in the Government of Canada, 1990 to 2012 by CLA Govt Library and Info Mgmt Professionals Network
- New Report on Information Management in the Government of Canada by CLA Govt Library and Info Mgmt Professionals Network
- Recent CLA Statements and Advocacy Tools by CLA Govt Library and Info Mgmt Professionals Network
- CHLA/ABSC Save our Science Libraries Advocacy Toolkit by Canadian Health Libraries Association
- >The Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives by the Canadian Library Association
- CAPAL Report to Royal Society of Canada
- Open Letter Against Libricide, from the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts
Links about other recent federal government library cuts & closures
- The war on knowledge: notes from the front by John Dupuis
- Library Science (LS) Positions in the Government of Canada, 1990 to 2012
- Cuts and Closures at Canada’s federal libraries
- Last chapter for many Environment Canada libraries by Margaret Munro
- Article which includes list of libraries closed since 2012
- Cutbacks reduce revenue agency’s nine libraries to one by Jason Fekete
- Health Canada library changes leave scientists scrambling by Laura Payton
- Health Canada scientists setting up unofficial libraries as national libraries fail by Cory Doctorow
- Canadian Health Scientists Resort To Sneaker Net After Funding Slashed, slashdot thread
- Q-785: Order Paper on Federal Library Closures by Myron Groover (order paper here)
- OLA Poster: Federal Library Closures of 2012: A Rescue Effort by David Sharp and Colin Harness; Carleton University Library
- Not just Environment and Health: Canadian government attacks libraries from 12 ministries by Cory Doctorow
- Loss of Librarians Devastating to Science and Knowledge in Canada by Erika Thorkelson
- Library Association Requests 'Informed Dialogue' with Feds on Library Closures by Erika Thorkelson
- Health Librarians Decry Loss of Federal Research Libraries by Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA/ABSC)
- CLA Statement regarding Federal Government Library Consolidation and Closure by The Canadian Library Association
- Writing on the wall in closing of federal libraries by David Sharp
- More Reasons to Arrest Harper: Feds Shutter World-Class Libraries by Janet Kimantas
- Letter to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages from the Canadian Association of Learned Journals (Minister's response)
- Environment libraries : endangered species? by Danielle Dennie / Feliciter 2007
- The Harper Government Has Trashed and Destroyed Environmental Books and Documents by Jordan Sowunmi
- Dismantling of federal libraries is quite concerning by Kevin Voon
- Forum: The feds have been closing the libraries of its departments and commissions as a way to cut the budget deficit, but a deficit of knowledge may be worse by Valerie Knowles
- Federal Library Closures and the Harper Government’s “Monoculture of the Mind” by Michael Quinn Dudley
- Managing ocean information in the digital era – Events in Canada open questions about the role of marine science libraries by Peter G. Wells
- An Update on the Experimental Lakes Area, and Other Aspects of Science and Reason in Canada by D.W. Schindler, FRSC
- For Frack's Sake #250 by Science for the People (My podcast interview about DFO library closures)
- Library changes seen as risk to Health Canada's credibility by Susan Lunn
- Health Library Closure is Latest Blow to Canada’s Researchers by Special Libraries Association
- Response to Federal Library Cuts by Progressive Librarians Guild – London Ontario Chapter
- Federal libraries, archives shutting down: Researchers, academics, genealogists losing important research tools for their work
- Nature’s Past Episode on the Closing of Federal Libraries
- Shutting down our libraries broke the law by Elizabeth May, Green Party
- Questions from MPs on Issues of Interest to the Library Community by CLA Govt Library and Info Mgmt Professionals Network
- US Environmental Protection Agency library closures
- Why we should listen to Elizabeth May: Paul Wells on the Harper government’s latest cuts by Paul Wells
- Letter to Dr. Guy Berthiaume in Opposition to LAC’s Proposal to Move Hosting of AMICUS to OCLC (Online Computer Library Centre, Inc.) in the United States by Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians
The main list of articles, etc. for Department of Fisheries and Oceans library closures
- 2011.12.14. Union: Scientists scared to talk about DFO cuts by Paul McLeod
- 2012.05.17. DFO tells more than 1,000 workers they could lose their jobs by PSAC British Columbia
- 2012.05.17. DFO tells more than 1,000 workers they could lose their jobs - BC search and rescue station shut down, Coast Guard regional offices close, DFO's capacity to protect aquatic ecosystems and fisheries further diminished
- 2012.05.18. Fisheries cuts could claim 29 N.B. jobs
- 2012.05.22. Conservative MPs argue DFO cuts won't hurt research: About 16 scientists and librarians at the St. Andrews Biological Station received layoff notices last week
- 2012.06.27. Ottawa axes fisheries staff, offices by Paul McLeod
- 2012.08.27. Scientists fight to save library from federal cuts
- 2012.11.12. Est du Québec : fermeture dénoncée de la bibliothèque de l'Institut Maurice-Lamontagne by Radio Canada
- 2012.11.27. Fortin (BQ) critical of the Government’s closure of the sole DFO French-language library by Environhansard
- 2012.11.29. Fortin (NDP) asks government to reconsider closure of Maurice Lamontagne marine research institute from Enviro Hansard
- 2012.12.01. Lettre - Bibliothèque de l’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne by Richard Nadeau
- 2012.12.19. Pétition contre la fermeture de la bibliothèque de l’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne (IML) by Association des étudiantes et des étudiants de l’École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information de l’Université de Montréal
- 2013.04.13. Closure of fisheries’ libraries called a ‘disaster’ for science by Margaret Munro
- 2013.04.15. April 15, 2013 Question on closing DFO libraries by Robert Chisholm
- 2013.04.17. Seven DFO libraries closing by Susannah Tredwel
- 2013.04.24. DFO Library Closures "Unworthy of a Democracy" by Erika Thorkelson
- 2013.05.01. Feds stand by decision to consolidate fisheries libraries in Telegraph Journal May 1. 2013 by Derwin Gowan posted in Save Ocean Science
- 2013.05.29. Disturbing news on Canadian Fisheries/Oceans libraries by Steve Watkins
- 2013.06.27. Subject: Reply from Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- 2013.06.28. Bibliothèque de l'IML : des livres retrouvés dans un conteneur by Radio Canada
- 2013.07.05. L’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne est en péril, selon le syndicat by Sonia Levesque
- 2013.07.21. Consolidating holdings- “Libricide” at DFO by unmuzzledscience
- 2013.08.20. Canada’s Drowning Ocean Science
- 2013.09.19. DFO’s archives leaving N.L. by Andrew Robinson
- 2013.10.02. Federal cuts nix DFO library by Nanaimo Daily News
- 2013.10.12. Federal cuts nix DFO library
- 2013.10.15. Francophone Libraries: Official Languages Commissioner Agrees with NDP by Philip Toone
- 2013.11.10. Report to WGC: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) by Erland MacIsaac
- 2013.12.05. Scientists go fishing for old documents: Library kept books, rare reports by Mary Agnes Welch
- 2013.12.09. Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists: Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2013.12.09. Fisheries library's closure in Winnipeg worries scientist
- 2013.12.09. Green Party condemns destruction of world-renowned Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries by Elizabeth May
- *2013.12.19. Frequently Asked Questions re: DFO libraries consolidation
- 2013.12.23. What's Driving Chaotic Dismantling of Canada's Science Libraries? Scientists reject Harper gov't claims vital material is being saved digitally by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2013.12.24. Shutting Science Libraries Means Shutting Down Scientific Research by University of Toronto Academic Librarians
- 2013.12.24. DFO provides Christmas gifts for scientists by unmuzzledscience
- 2013.12.27. Harper government cutting more than $100 million related to protection of water by Mike DeSouza
- 2013.12.27. "Libricide": Harper government closing and junking environmental libraries by Climate Science Watch
- 2013.12.30. Secret Memo Casts Doubt on Feds' Claims for Science Library Closures: Goal stated is 'culling' research, not preserving and sharing through digitization by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.03. How the Harper Government Committed a Knowledge Massacre by Capt. Trevor Greene
- 2014.01.04. New Information about the closure of major science research libraries in Canada…
- 2013..01.04. Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives by Cory Doctorow (comments)
- 2014.01.05. Fisheries minister should be thankful for Senate scandal by PressProgress
- 2014.01.05. The axeman cometh for DFO and Coast Guard?
- 2014.01.05. Book Burning or Fact Fudging? What I Found Out Researching the DFO “Book Burning” Claims by Erin Brooke
- 2014.01.05. Huff Post: Canadian science under further assault. Can the latest grotesque news be true? Call fact check! by Charles Petit
- 2014.01.06. Climate History is Under Attack in Canada by Dagomar Degroot
- 2014.01.06. Eric Marshall laments closure of namesake Fisheries library by Peter Rusland
- 2014.01.06. Why A Liberal Arts Education Matters: The War on Canadian Science Libraries Edition by Mike the Mad Biologist
- 2014.01.06. Harper's War on Science Gets Uglier (Metafilter thread)
- 2014.01.06. Fisheries and Oceans library closings called loss to science: Department of Fisheries and Oceans plans to close 7 of its 11 libraries across the country by Max Paris
- 2014.01.06. Fisheries and Oceans library closures, report by CBC The National
- 2014.01.07. Feds Accelerate Closure of Research Libraries by Terry Dawes
- 2014.01.07. Suspicions over library consolidation as critics complain Harper government is trashing important books by Jen Gerson
- *2014.01.07. The facts on library consolidation at Fisheries and Oceans
- 2014.01.07. Island man laments gutting of fisheries libraries by Jack Knox
- 2014.01.08. More information on the closing of the science libraries…
- 2014.01.08. Scientists Say DFO's Library Closure Defence Doesn't Add Up: Minister Shea fails to convince researchers trove of information is preserved by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.08. Gail Shea Denies Books Burned As Fisheries Libraries Consolidated
- 2014.01.08. Purge of Canada’s fisheries libraries a ‘historic’ loss, scientists say by Gloria Galloway
- 2014.01.08. DFO Libraries Closing, report by CBC Cape Breton
- 2014.01.08. Reddit thread on DFO library closures and here.
- 2014.01.08. "You are cordially invited by the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans to a good old-fashioned book burning ..... refreshments will be served. RSVP"
- 2014.01.08. Gail Shea Denies Books Burned As Fisheries Libraries Consolidated by The Huffington Post Canada
- 2014.01.09. Canada's Science Library Closures Mirror Bush's Playbook by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.09. Last chapter for many Environment Canada libraries by Margaret Munro
- 2014.01.09. Closing Science Libraries? by Ted Hsu
- 2014.01.09. Canada’s Fahrenheit 451?
- 2014.01.09. Closing of Canadian Fisheries Libraries Alarms Scientists by Marc Montgomery
- 2014.01.09. Dismantling of DFO libraries a blow to democracy by Rick Salutin
- 2014.01.09. DFO Library Closures Anger Scientific Community by Erika Thorkelson
- 2014.01.09. La fermeture de bibliothèques inquiète les scientifiques canadiens by Souen Léger
- 2014.01.09. Lueur d'espoir pour la bibliothèque de l'Institut Maurice-Lamontagne by Radio Canada
- 2014.01.10. The Conservative Government Must Stop Eliminating Science by Robert Chisholm
- 2014.01.10. Research cutbacks by government alarm scientists: Federal government has dismissed more than 2,000 scientists in past 5 years by Julia Sisler
- 2014.01.10. Closures of valuable fisheries libraries worry aquatic scientists by Igor I. Solar
- 2014.01.10. On the loss of historical data and the closure of the DFO libraries by Antony Adler
- 2014.01.10. Scientists claim “libricide” in response to government’s closure of Fisheries and Oceans libraries by Sue Carter Flinn
- 2014.01.10. Fisheries books digitized or dumped? by Phil Melnychuk
- 2014.01.10. Researchers air concerns over cutbacks in Canadian research by United Press International
- 2014.01.10. More concern over purging of DFO libraries: Ecology prof refutes claims the libraries were under-utilized by Sara Norman
- 2014.01.10. DFO Library Closures a Huge Step in the Wrong Direction by Andrea Robertson
- 2014.01.10. The War Continues by Lorne Warwick
- 2014.01.10. Fermeture de bibliothèques et censure de la recherche : en s’attaquant à son patrimoine, le Canada vise l’environnement by Clémence Jost
- 2014.01.11. Canada's closure of science libraries riles researchers by Clément Sabourin
- 2014.01.11. Trashing science, St. John's Telegram unsigned editorial
- 2014.01.11. Fahrenheit 451 rages north of 49th parallel as Canuck government said burning books by Paul St John Mackintosh
- 2014.01.11. Stephen Harper and the Monstrous Con Book Burners by Simon
- 2014.01.12. "Like a Book Burning" The Canadian government is closing scientific libraries and destroying docs by Pakalolo
- 2014.01.12. A Few Thoughts on the Closing of the DFO Libraries by Mike Ridley
- 2014.01.12. That’s no way to treat a library, scientists say by Sandro Contenta
- 2014.01.12. Alexandria All Over Again by Big Bad Bald Bastard
- 2014.01.13. Canada’s librarians question Tories’ policy of closing government-run libraries by Steve Mertl
- 2014.01.13. How the government mishandled the fishery library closings, Globe and Mail unsigned editorial
- 2014.01.13. The real concerns about Ottawa’s ‘libricide’, Toronto Star unsigned editorial
- 2014.01.13. Nation's Library Advocate Raises Questions about Federal 'Culling:' Canadian Library Association disturbed by closures, wants proof digitizing is happening by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.13. Chronology of Canadian Tories’ war on science libraries by Rob Sullivan
- 2014.01.13. Letter from NDP Fisheries Critic Robert Chisholm and Science & Technology Critic Kennedy Stewart
- 2014.01.13. Another Week of Climate Disruption News, January 12, 2014 by coby
- 2014.01.13. Canada Closes Ecological Libraries, Burns Thousands Of Books As Part Of Cost-Cutting Measures by Esther Tanquintic-Misa
- 2014.01.13. Un sursis pour la bibliothèque de l’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne by Sonia Lévesque
- 2014.01.14. Canadian Library Association concerned by wave of government library closures by Wojtek Gwiazda
- 2014.01.14. New Democrats Press DFO Minister on Library Closures: 'Allegations of effective book burning are very troubling to Canadians': NDP by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.14. Canadian Government Waging War on Science by Alisha Mims
- 2014.01.14. Slashdot thread
- 2014.01.15. Fisheries library closure is seen as loss to researchers by Julie Chadwick
- 2014.01.15. Written Questions by CLA Govt Library and Info Mgmt Professionals Network (library-related questions during the 41st parliament, including on DFO libraries)
- 2014.01.15. The Closing of the Science Libraries, its Media Coverage and the Government’s Spin by Penny Pepperell
- 2014.01.15. An Open Letter to Fisheries and Oceans Minister Gail Shea – DFO Library Closures by Liberal Fisheries Critic Lawrence MacAulay
- 2014.01.15. The stealing of our collective memory by Valerie Knowles
- 2014.01.16. Question! What is really happening at the DFO libraries? by John Dupuis
- 2014.01.16. Federal government's library-closing policy comes to Halifax: DFO, Parks Canada libraries affected by Hilary Beaumont
- 2014.01.16. Politics, Nature and the Censoring of Science in Canada by Lily
- 2014.01.16. Federal government's library-closing policy comes to Halifax: DFO, Parks Canada libraries affected. by Hilary Beaumont
- 2014.01.16. Ex-libris by Trent Ernst
- 2014.01.17. Canadian government accused of destroying environmental archives: Researchers fear that valuable documents will disappear as libraries close and merge. by Brian Owens
- 2014.01.17. Closing libraries, foreclosing research by Will Knight
- 2014.01.18. Librarians Say Cullings Signify Harper's New Info Policy: Closures and 'denigration' of library materials show trend to 'minimalist government.' by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.19. Canada's P.M. Harper Destroys Science Books, and Libraries.
- 2014.01.20. MacAulay writes Shea asking for library reversal
- 2014.01.20. Dear Ryan: Barbarians are destroying our libraries. Again. by Linda Leon
- 2014.01.20. Subject: Department of Fisheries and Oceans Libraries by Gerald Beasley, Canadian Association of Research Libraries statement
- 2014.01.20. Canadian Government's Library Closing May Hurt Research, Academics Say by Karen Birchard & Jennifer Lewington
- 2014.01.20. Canadian Scientific Research Threatened by Connie Crosby
- 2014.01.20. The Nazis burned books. Under the current regime in Canada… by Michael Riordon
- 2014.01.22. Researchers keenly feel loss of trashed papers by Jack Knox
- 2014.01.23. Canadian library closures by James Higham
- 2014.01.23. Is Canada’s scientific information worth keeping? What do you think?
- 2014.01.23. The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. by Ray Rivers
- 2014.01.23. Ottawa ‘culls’ priceless science work by Mark Daffin
- 2014.01.24. Free expression, knowledge and Canada's libraries by Radostina Pavlova
- 2014.01.24. Free expression, knowledge and Canada's libraries by Radostina Pavlova
- 2014.01.25. Canada's Government Puts Science Research on Fisheries and Oceans in the Dumpster by Len Rosen
- 2014.01.26. Two More Reports on Canadian Government Library Closings (Including List of Closed Libraries) by Gary Price
- 2014.01.26. Library cuts in more than a dozen government departments trigger fears of lost knowledge by Andrea Hill
- 2014.01.26. Librarians protest Canada cutbacks by Karen Birchard & Jennifer Lewington
- 2014.01.26. Scientists Speak Out Against Canada's "War on Science" by Peter Rugh
- 2014.01.27. Elizabeth May Questions Legality of Science Library Cullings: 'Original materials will be preserved,' counters Tory minister in Parliament spat by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.01.27. Greens challenge legality of library destruction by Elizabeth May, Green Party
- 2014.01.27. Some thoughts on questionable legality of Federal library cuts by Myron Groover
- 2014.01.27. Order Paper Q-110 on closure of DFO libraries
- 2014.01.27. Librarians Protest Canada Cutbacks by Karen Birchard and Jennifer Lewington
- 2014.01.27. A "war on science" in Canada: Peter Rugh reports on the Canadian government's closure of scientific libraries in the interest of protecting the fossil-fuel industry by Peter Rugh
- 2014.01.28. Who will Harper surprise next? by Duncan Cameron
- 2014.01.28. How are our best interests served by the Conservative agenda? by Don Himmelman
- 2014.01.28. Order Paper Reveals DFO Library Situation Far Worse than Thought by Myron Groover
- 2014.01.29. ‘Libricide’ in Canada: Harper government library closings being called “a knowledge massacre” by Wes Weima
- 2014.01.30. Fisheries science books disposal costs Ottawa thousands: 7 Fisheries and Oceans libraries to close, sending books, documents to trash by Margo McDiarmid (reddit thread)
- 2014.01.30. Does digitizing material mean it’s safe? A tale of Canada’s Fisheries and Oceans scientific libraries by Maryse de la Giroday
- 2014.01.30. Was Harper's gutting of DFO libraries illegal? by Brent Patterson
- 2014.01.30. Harper government spends $23,000 to ‘cull’ materials from seven libraries by Mike De Souza
- 2014.01.30. Closures of research libraries might have broken the law, Elizabeth May says
- 2014.01.31. Environmental History Lessons in the Classroom by Katherine Ireland
- 2014.01.31. Ottawa spends thousands to dispose of fisheries library materials by Emma Renda
- 2014.01.31. The Spectator's view: Eroding Canada’s institutional knowledge by Howard Elliott
- 2014.01.31. Closure of Federal Libraries – Documents and Update on Closures by University of Toronto Academic Librarians
- 2014.01.31. DFO library closures mean long-term scientific loss, little political fallout by Cullen Bird
- 2014.02.01. Canadian Decision to Close 7 Libraries Leads to Major Controversy by Michael Stillman
- 2014.02.01. Baker: A DFO library gets checked out by
- 2014.02.02. Why I support Evidence for Democracy by Dan Weaver
- 2014.02.03. Conservatives’ Attacks on Science by Lauren Liu, NDP
- 2014.02.04. Destruction of Canadian research libraries huge loss for science by Redeye Collective (podcast)
- 2014.02.04. Library luminary Eric Marshall earns national award by Peter Rusland
- 2014.02.04. King Harper disregards regarded research by Samantha Lego
- 2014.02.05. Lawrence MacAulay on Fisheries and Oceans in the House of Commons
- 2014.02.06. Cuts prompt Health Canada worker to hide library resources in basement by Maude Barlow & Adrienne Silnicki
- 2014.02.06. What’s going on in Canada’s fisheries libraries? by Sal Robinson
- 2014.02.07. Minister Shea’s response to our letter about DFO library closures by Robert Chisholm, NDP
- 2014.02.10. The price of libraries can not just be measured by dollars and cents by Barry Kerton
- 2014.02.10. Fisheries Minister Gail Shea dismisses complaints about closure of DFO libraries by Mike Carson
- 2014.02.14. Key DFO Library Closure Questions Go Unanswered: Scientists: Feds insist necessary research was 'retained,' but don't mention digitization by Andrew Nikiforuk
- 2014.02.14. An Update on Scientific Integrity in Canada, and How Scientists In Other Countries Can Help by Michael Halpern
- 2014.02.19. Elizabeth May's Question in the Commons about legality of library closures
- 2014.02.19. Minister Shea response to Canadian Association of Research Libraries letter by Minister of Fisheries & Oceans Gail Shea
- 2014.02.21. Federal libraries closing by Lawrence MacAulay, MP for Cardigan, PEI, Fisheries and Oceans critic for the Liberal Party of Canada
- 2014.03.10. Open letter from concerned Kenora citizens Submitted by Katie Gibbs
- 2014.03.14. La fermeture de la bibliothèque de l'Institut Maurice-Lamontagne contrevient à la loi aux langues officielles by Guy Caron, NDP
- 2014.xx.xx. Fermeture de la bibliothèque de l’Institut Maurice Lamontagne by Jean-Francois Fortin, independent MP (undated post)
- 2014.03.16. Jean-François Fortin gagne la bataille de l’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne by Roger Boudreau
- 2014.03.18. Langues officielles : Pêches et Océans Canada doit corriger le tir
- 2014.03.21. La bibliothèque de l’Institut Maurice-Lamontagne pourra demeurer ouverte
- 2014.03.21. Forum: The feds have been closing the libraries of its departments and commissions as a way to cut the budget deficit, but a deficit of knowledge may be worse by Valerie Knowles
- 2014.03.29. A sad state of (library) affairs by unmuzzledscience
- 2014.04.01. A case for Government Science outreach by unmuzzledscience
- 2014.04.15. Librarians and researchers react to government library closures by Joshua Rapp Learn
- 2014.04.30. Grey Literature in the Marine Sciences: Recognizing Its Importance, Retaining It for Canadians by Environmental Information: Use and Influence
- 2014.05.08. Returning the shout-out by unmuzzledscience
- 2014.06.19. Consolidation and closure of several Department of Fisheries and Oceans libraries, and the downsizing of the Department’s library collections, letter to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans from Concordia University Faculty Association Librarians
Items with asterisks represent Government of Canada sites.
Update 2014.01.17. Updated list with several new items, mostly from January 10 but with a few older ones too.
Update 2014.01.27. Updated list with many items since last update as well as a bit of catch up on older ones. Added a section on other recent federal government library closures and cuts.
Update 2014.09.11. Huge update with slightly more than 100 items added to the three sections. Significantly I've added quite a bit on the closure of the library at l’Institut Maurice Lamontagne in Quebec, the only French-language library affected. I've also added quite a bit on federal government library cuts and closures in general. I may end up separating that material out into a separate chronological post at some point. As usual, please let me know about errors, omissions, accidental duplications, etc.
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Wrong title.
This is a war on Canadians who do not want Canada to be the land of reason and respect that harper and his minions are hell bent on destroying.
He must be stopped before it is too late to recover from his hideous agendas.
Be sure to keep screen captures of gov sites and copy articles. Things digital have a way of disappearing. i did this for the census and much stuff disappeared.
cheers
tracey
"1984 in 2013: The Assault on Reason" - Allan Gregg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIg_VNUWqME&feature=player_embedded