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Times-Colonist: Library plans “in the works for some time” | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. Times-Colonist: Library plans “in the works for some time”. This article doesn’t offer much that is new except to mention that engineers have been looking at the library since early 2006, and that the cost of the seismic upgrades may be $30 million. Whether that includes the conversion to office space is not known at this time. Time and FOI will tell…. Times Colonist; with files from Times Colonist staff. Saturday, March 17, 2007. What happens after the...
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Legislative Library the Brains of Our Democracay | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. Legislative Library the Brains of Our Democracay. Stephen Hume lambastes the government for it’s underhanded library “land grab” in the Vancouver Sun. Conspiring politicians and the land grab at the legislature. Friday, March 23, 2007. Philistinism — actually, the street term “creeping meatballism” sounds better — spreads through British Columbia’s political class like some zombie virus in a B-grade movie. Want a copy of a historic map? Forty cents a pa...
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Is a Library Without Books Still a Library? | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. Is a Library Without Books Still a Library? In anticipation of April Fool’s Day the University of Michigan student newspaper. Has lampooned the current trend towards replacing library books and journals with electronic media:. Mardigian Library to remove all books; students won’t notice. Issue date: 3/27/07 Section: April Fools’. I mean, come on, we all know that students really come here to surf the Internet and make out on the second floor. And wi...
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Scholars, MLAs, Citizens Oppose Library Closure | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. Scholars, MLAs, Citizens Oppose Library Closure. Here are some recent letters to the Victoria Times-Colonist:. Sunday, March 25, 2007. The long-term or permanent closure of the legislative library will seriously undermine the ability of historians to investigate the many aspects of B.C.’s past. Dr Richard A. Rajala,. Library closing a shameful contradiction. Thursday, March 29, 2007. Considering that our city is deemed to be the capital of British Colum...
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Visit Your Library | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. This spring may be your last chance to see the Legislative Library as it has been for the past 90 years. Members of the public may visit and use the library during days and times when the House is not sitting. These days and times are:. Wednesdays, 8:30 am to 12 noon. Fridays, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. April 2-5, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. April 10-13, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. May 22-25, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Closed Good Friday, Easter Monday, and Victoria Day). Notify me ...
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What happens when a government values its library | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. What happens when a government values its library. The Government of Canada recently spent $136 million restoring and upgrading. Our national parliamentary library. (See a video of the entire process here. Not only was the Library of Parliament restored architecturally, it was upgraded to modern archival standards to ensure that its contents would be preserved for future generations. Workers cut through the bedrock. The library, not downsizing it. Feed ...
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More Online Opposition | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. The British Columbia Library Association. Has an excellent summary of the situation with suggestions for action (see the news section on their front page). Print it out and share it with your friends! The BC. Teacher-Librarians’ Association. Has put together a collection of news stories and letters to the editor, topped off by a great Raeside cartoon. Picked up the story from the beginning. More mentions in the blogosphere: UBC Library Blog. Scholars, M...
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The Premier’s Bubble | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. The Premier’s Bubble. Apparently not. According to a story (below, emphasis mine) in The Province. Mr Campbell claims that he has not read last week’s letter from the B.C. Librarian’s Association. About the closing of the Legislative Library. If the people with the most expertise and authority in the field can’t get through the Premier’s bubble, who can? Library’s fate ‘undecided’. Sunday, April 01, 2007. The premier acknowledged he did take a tour, but...
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A Portrait of a Librarian | Save the B.C. Legislative Library
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Save the B.C. Legislative Library. What You Can Do. A Portrait of a Librarian. Protecting our books, our history. Jim and Nic Hume. Sunday, March 25, 2007. CREDIT: Times Colonist file. Retired legislature librarian Joan Barton: It’s pretty obvious the politicians covet the historic spot for their own comforts. But always, just beyond the tumult and the shouting, the legislative library offered the calm of a monastery’s cloisters. Under its own domed ceiling, overlooked by gargoyles designed to ...It is a...