Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 05/01/2014 22:37:
As usual, reports of their death were greatly exaggerated.
«The Department’s 11 library locations will be consolidated into 4
locations [...] The Department may remove only content that is
duplicated at one or more libraries and, in rare instances, materials
which fall outside the subject disciplines pertinent to the department’s
mandate from its collection»
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/FAQ-eng.htm
Those might be lies, but they say they're not really reducing their
collections. As sad as it is, using taxpayers' money to store duplicate
items in expensive locations is no longer possible. I only wish we had
dismantled more of the practically inaccessible 100+ libraries of my
university when I was in the board... the resistence, believe me, comes
usually from very short-sighted professors who only care about formal
"libraries" which are actually only a set of shelves in their own
offices that nobody but them and their close friends can and do use.
Nemo