Weekly News Roundup: May 8-14, 2016

May 14, 2016

Collections

Amnesty International: Why children’s books are important

L’Université de Montréal renonce à 2116 abonnements pour ses bibliothèques

Glance at the past: 1000s of historical Winnipeg postcards donated to city

Open Government / Access to Information

BC Government to Proactively Release Travel Expenses, Status of FOI Requests

B.C. privacy commissioner mainly positive toward new FOI policies

The case for open government

How open data can change the way we live and learn

Outrage over government Wikipedia edits sends wrong message

Policy

Cobourg among libraries wanting fair prices for e-books

Downloading libraries to towns ‘unfair,’ says head of MNL

Forget a Netflix tax. Here’s how to shake up Canada’s culture: Geist

Peace In Our Time – how publishers, libraries and writers could work together

Privacy

B.C. privacy commissioner mainly positive toward new FOI policies

Forget about bringing the ‘right to be forgotten’ to Canada

Opposition MPs ask whether commissioner offices should be merged

Permanent information retention from CPS check up slips raises questions for privacy commissioner

What does consent look like in the 21st century? Canada’s privacy commissioner calls for public input

The Profession

Barbara Streisand, The Beatles, and CLA: Share Your Memories

CLA, ALA Editions Distribution Arrangement To End; New Canadian Distributor To Be Announced

FEDLINK Announces Annual Awards for Federal Librarianship

Local teen librarian wins award for creative program

Toronto hosts largest gathering of medical librarians and health information professionals for premier educational event

Update from the Canadian Federation of Library Associations

Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) Librarians Receive Two Awards from ALA

Research

Presentations and posters from the 2016 Concordia University Libraries Annual Research Forum

Services

Book Bike wins community award

Why Your Company Needs Knowledge Sharing and Continuous Learning

YALSA releases position paper, Adopting a Summer Learning Approach for Increased Impact

Spaces

$15.5-million expansion, public rooftop garden planned for Vancouver Public Library

Calgary Central Library to deter loitering by installing metal screens

Fogo Islanders pack library in protest of government cuts

OPL board approves central library public engagement strategy

Plans for $20-million extension to Pierrefonds library set to go ahead

Statistics / Measurement

The damage the Tories did with the census won’t be easily undone

PLA’s Project Outcome launches new performance measures at ALA Annual

Provincial and Territorial Culture Indicators, 2014

Technology

Is Google dumbing down our quest for knowledge?

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Explore Plans to Combine