Everything tagged: Government information

Highlights from the Report of the Public Inquiry into the 2022 Public Order Emergency of interest to the Canadian library and information management community

Extracts from the 2021 Census about the library and information management community.

The discussion paper from the First Nations Information Governance Centre explores the conflicts between the current Canadian information management regime and First Nations data sovereignty and offers suggestions for further exploration that may offer short‑term and long‑term improvements of the system.

The next “Government Information Day(s): Coast to Coast” will held sometime during Tuesday, December 13th – Thursday, December 15th, 2022 – for any part of those dates, or on all three.

The new version of the guide is a comprehensive inventory that links to sources of historical statistics.

The research focused on official languages measures in libraries in Canada. It consisted of a literature review and a survey of the legislative, regulatory and policy measures adopted by the provinces and territories to govern public libraries and language practices. It also looked at the contribution of university libraries, on the one hand, and that of community libraries and book fairs, on the other, to the vitality of official language minority communities (OLMCs).

Highlights from ministerial mandate letters on issues of interest to the librarianship community.

Deadline: October 27, 2021

Engage with colleagues across the country and further afield. Learn what your government information counterparts are working on, concerned by, and celebrate some achievements.

The event is tentatively scheduled for 14, 15 and 16 December.