Federal Library Closures and the Harper Government’s “Monoculture of the Mind”
The library and scientific professions were taken by surprise by the Harper government in late 2013 when it shuttered seven out of eleven Fisheries and Oceans Canada libraries, consigning much of these collections to dumpsters. Official explanations that the closures were undertaken to save taxpayer...
Main Author: | Michael Quinn Dudley |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Partnership
2014-05-01
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Series: | Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research |
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Online Access: | https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/2996 |
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