Libricide!

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Harper’s Conservatives have been cutting away at Library and Archives Canada but now a number of articles are pointing out how they’re trashing and burning irreplaceable science documents. The Tyee has a detailed piece here http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/23/Canadian-Science-Libraries/ and Boing Boing here http://boingboing.net/2014/01/04/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html These acts are so shameful and ... continue reading

A right for privacy is getting confused with…

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A right for privacy is getting confused with a “right” to censor. I think there is a point when a person puts something into the public’s grasp that it ceases to adhere to that person’s control. This article on French archivists makes a case against extending some types of privacy control. That’s not to say that we don’t need better privacy rules. A lot of information gets abused ... continue reading

Interesting project from Ronald Rudin to document online…

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Interesting project from Ronald Rudin to document online and thus restore (in a sense) the voices of people that were forcibly removed from Kouchibouguac, NB when it was turned into a national park. An article on the project from Concordia University says “This practice rarely resulted in opposition, but in the case of Kouchibouguac National Park there was significant resistance, particularly from Acadians wh ... continue reading