Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Western University Sign Five-Year Collaboration Agreement
From Library and Archives Canada (LAC):
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) and Western University in London, Ontario, have agreed to share expertise and knowledge.
The two organizations will collaborate in supporting academic advancement, research practices and technological developments, and will proactively facilitate outreach to promote Canadian documentary heritage. They will achieve these goals through workshops, training programs and student placements.
This collaboration, set to last until 2022, will be beneficial to officials and professionals at LAC as well as to professors, students, librarians and archivists from Western. This is the eighth such agreement that LAC has signed with a Canadian university. These agreements are in keeping with LAC’s priorities, as it strives to be on the leading edge of archival science, library science and related new technologies. They will help ensure that LAC continues to play an active role in national and international network.
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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