Another way data are lost!
CPRN documents went to Carleton University, as did the Council on Welfare. Who knows if a home will be found for these materials.
The NRCan library has also undergone significant reduction in access hours, and we all know about Library and Archives Canada.
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Dan Smith <[hidden email]>Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:05 AM
Subject: [Caglist] Closure of Department of Fisheries’ libraries called a ‘disaster’ for science
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Closure of Department of Fisheries’ libraries called a ‘disaster’
for science
Seven DFO libraries across Canada are to close by the fall,
including two that have been amassing books and technical reports on
the aquatic realm for more than a century. The department said “all”
the materials will remain available either online or through
inter-library loans. But critics said digital and remote access is
no replacement for the real thing. They also fear valuable
historical information will be lost in the purge, or “weeding,” now
underway as the seven libraries are dismantled.
“It is information destruction unworthy of a democracy,” said Peter
Wells, an ocean pollution expert at Dalhousie University in Halifax,
who describes the closing of the libraries as a “national tragedy.”
Eric Mills, a specialist in the history of marine sciences at
Dalhousie University, sees it as a “disaster” that will stifle
research.
Montreal Gazette
http://www.canada.com/technology/Closure+fisheries+libraries+called+disaster+science/8241123/story.html#ixzz2QXpmR700
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