As reported in Librarianship.ca: OCLC Research has released Maple Leaves: Discovering Canada Through the Published Record, a look at Canada’s contribution to literature, music, film, and other forms of published documentary heritage as represented in OCLC library collections around the world. The report’s findings include: Janette Oke is the most popular Canadian author, and Anne Read More…
Category: Canadian Libraries & Archives
LAC Announces 21 new NHDS Projects
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has announced the recipients of the latest round of funding from the National Heritage Digitization Strategy (NHDS). $1 million is being provided to support 21 projects by archives, libraries and documentary heritage institutions throughout Canada. The recipients of the Digitization Canadian Collection funding call were announced on October 16, 2018. Launched in Read More…
Trudeau’s Mandate Letter to our New Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism
On August 28, 2018, Prime Minister Trudeau sent Canada’s new Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, the Honourable Pablo Rodriguez, his Mandate Letter. Rodriguez replaces Mélanie Joly in this post. The Mandate Letter outlines Trudeau’s expectations for Rodriguez in his new role. In addition to the government’s commitment to grow Canada’s economy, strengthen the middle class Read More…
Royal Society releases “The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory”
The Future Now: Canada’s Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory Abstract: Since the 1950s debate has raged about the impact of new technologies on print culture in the broadest sense and on the publishing industry, libraries, and archives in particular. Succinctly put, “The Death of the Book” has been both proclaimed and denied. Meanwhile, notions of Read More…