Everything tagged: Advocacy

The LAA has written to Alberta’s Minister of Education and Childcare expressing concern about the stated involvement of Action4Canada in the recent announcement about school libraries and requesting a meeting to ensure librarians are consulted re new policies for school libraries.

LAA is surprised and concerned by the Government of Alberta’s news release yesterday that it intends to ban books in Alberta school libraries starting in September.

“While public input can be valuable, it is quite concerning that there appears to have been no attempt to get trained professional input, or any attempt to understand under what criteria the books were selected.”

The Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) has sent a letter to Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) Chief Executive Officer Richard Baker and Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc, Court-appointed monitors for the HBC, expressing its concern over the proposed auction of historical artifacts from the Hudson’s Bay Company collection.

“We are writing to express our concern about the cuts to school library staff in New Brunswick’s Anglophone School District West. It is disheartening to imagine school libraries trying to be run without trained library staff.”

« Nous vous écrivons pour partager notre inquiétude au sujet des réductions de personnel dans les bibliothèques scolaires du District scolaire anglophone Ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick. C’est décourageant d’envisager que les bibliothèques scolaires tenteront de fonctionner sans personnel qualifié. »

CFLA, in partnership with their government relations firm (Impact Public Affairs), has released several elections-related documents, including guides for meeting candidates and a fact sheet on the importance of libraries to the social infrastructure.

If implemented, the 25% tariff would have a devastating effect on the purchasing power of libraries across Canada.

As the Ontario provincial election campaign enters its second half, the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries is urging all political parties and candidates to demonstrate and pledge their support for public libraries in communities across the province.

A new article in Partnership looks at the kinds of advocacy engaged in by three of Canada’s national library associations, as well as gaps in advocacy themes and practices.