Canada: “Advocacy Group Disappointed with ‘Secretive’ Government Library Review”
From Global News:
Save Saskatchewan’s Libraries, the group behind the successful campaign to restore funding to Saskatchewan’s provincial libraries, is not happy with the provincial government in terms of reviewing library funding and service delivery.
The group says they have confirmed that the province is currently reviewing library service delivery, legislation and funding, and that the consultations do not include the public.
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Save Saskatchewan Libraries is an advocacy group that began after the 2017 budget cut to public libraries and held the largest mass demonstration in the modern history of the province
Read the Complete Article (Including Comment from Saskatchewan Government)
See Also: Save Saskatchewan Libraries (on Facebook)
See Also: ‘We Made a Mistake’: Sask. Government Turns Back Page on Library Cuts (April 2017)
Filed under: Funding, Government Libraries, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
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. 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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