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June 11, 2013 by Gary Price

Canada: Heritage Minister Looks at Restoring Local Archives Program

June 11, 2013 by Gary Price

From the CBC:

CBC News has learned Heritage Minister James Moore will ask Library and Archives Canada to consider restoring a program eliminated during recent federal budget cuts that helped hundreds of small museums across the country preserve local history.
Archivists, historians and public service sector unions have argued the loss of the National Archival Development Program has put Canada’s history at risk.
The federal grant program, with a budget of about $1.7 million annually, was cut as part of $9.6 million in reductions to the department.
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Doug Marshall, the president of the Union of National Employees which represents the staff at Library and Archives Canada, said when Ottawa first announced the cuts last year, the federal government said people would be able to search the archives online.
But according to Marshall, the staff responsible for digitizing the material were the ones impacted by the cuts.
“Less than two per cent of the materials are digitized and at the rate they’re going, it’s going to take seriously hundreds of years before they actually get what they have in digital form,” Marshall said.

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Additional Coverage: Heritage Minister James Moore wants axed Library and Archives Canada NADP program restored (via Ottawa Citizen)

Filed under: Archives and Special Collections, Funding, Libraries, News

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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