Open Statement – Truth and Reconciliation – Access to Data and InformationPublic libraries at their core are community hubs and gathering spaces for people and ideas. As stewards of open and equitable access to information, we stand with Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, and all Indigenous communities across Turtle Island, in mourning the loss of […]
Category: Open Letter
CULC/CBUC Response to Globe & Mail article
This article was submitted to the Globe and Mail Opinions Editor as an alternative point of view to an almost 3,000 word piece which appeared in the July 25 edition. This submission was declined for publication consideration in the newspaper other than as an online comment to the original Op Ed. July 27, 2020 In […]
CULC/CBUC’s Letter of Support for VPL’s Decision to Retain the Room Booking
Dear Ms Epstein, Board Chair, and Board Members, The Canadian Urban Library Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada members support Vancouver Public Library’s decision to allow Feminist Current to rent a meeting room at Vancouver Public Library (VPL) in accordance with VPL Board policy. This policy states explicitly that: “Statements being made or […]
CULC/CBUC Unanimously supports motion recognizing Schrader
In a moment of appreciation the CULC/CBUC members gathered in Calgary on October 1 and passed the following motion: MOTION WHEREAS Alvin Schrader has spent a career in librarianship inspiring, educating and supporting and defending the issues surrounding Intellectual Freedom for Canadians and the role that the library plays in that ecosystem. GIVEN THAT contribution […]
Congratulations to New Minister of Canadian Heritage
The Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada sent a letter to The Honourable Pablo Rodríguez to congratulate him on his appointment as the new Minister of Canadian Heritage and share their support of the National Heritage Digitization Strategy. CULC-CBUC Congratulations to Rodríguez
CULC/CBUC responds to TOR Library Embargo
CULC/CBUC sent letters to both Fritz Foy, President and publisher; and Tom Doherty, Chairman, of Tor Books about the publisher’s four month embargo on selling new Tor ebooks to libraries. The letters are available here: CULC-CBUC Letter to Fitz Foy at Tor about eBooks CULC-CBUC Letter to Tom Doherty at Tor about eBooks
Penguin Audiobooks withdrawn for library purchase through OverDrive and other Platforms
Dear Library Partner, Effective immediately, Penguin Group has suspended the availability of download audiobook titles for library purchase across all vendors. This change does not affect any Penguin audiobook titles currently in your library’s catalog. Your library will be able to purchase additional copies of titles released before 11/14/2011. However, titles released after this date […]
European Study Tour – Post No. 5
Well Hello! and Goodbye! to Helsinki. The weather is staying with us and the group continues to get along famously. We arrived in Helsinki and we immediately knew we were not in Kobenhavn anymore. We felt special as our coach driver was standing at the gate with a CULC\CBUC sign. We were downtown in 30 […]
CULC/CBUC STUDY TOUR POST NO. 3
Well it began and it has been awesome. If this makes one person jealous then great, all 19 of us will be pleased. As ED I hoped for one “big win” per day. When on Day One somebody says it was already worth every nickel you know things can only get worse. But so far […]
Dispatch from Denmark #2 – Tour Start Date
After months of planning and replanning and correspondence from our global colleagues at the institutions we are visiting the tour is finally about to begin. I think only two people have not yet checked in. We know one is already here, but just can’t find him. He will show. The weather continues to be great […]