Canada: Lawyers Protest Plan to Close Northwest Territories Only Law Library
From the CBC:
The Northwest Territories government is pulling $223,000 in funding for the territory’s only law library and lawyers are concerned this will limit public access to legal resources.
Lawyer Sandra MacKenzie said she just found out this week about the plan to close the library through the Law Society of the N.W.T.
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[Defence lawyer Paul] Falvo said some of resources in the library are available online, but many are not free.
“Publishers are moving to put everyone online, but that is often at a great cost to the subscriber,” he said.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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