Canadian Federal libraries ... shutting down : Emerging impact on Canadian environment with books lying in dumpsters is 'Like a Book Burning,'

Impact on Canadian environmental history in news by Sean Kheraj :

"News reports across the country showed startling images of books and other documents lying in dumpsters with rumors that others may have been burned. The culling of these libraries involved what has been described as a haphazard free-for-all with members of the public and industry scooping up abandoned books and valuable so-called “grey literature,” unique internal government publications. The process of library consolidation and closure seems to have happened so quickly that books that were still out on loan were never recalled. And beyond the loss of material, we still do not know the extent of the personnel losses. As library staff get laid off, valuable human knowledge vanishes along with the books." continue reading more Nature’s Past – Episode 41: Closing Federal Libraries

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Destruction of documents ‘a last resort’

Library and Archives Canada said it is working closely with federal libraries on “issues related to reductions” and has received about 1,000 boxes of “material of historical value” from libraries forced to cull their collections. continue reading : POSTMEDIA NEWS