According
to a “leaked” document which suggests that there may be a “10-year plan to digitize
documents” and we may have to pay to get access to them. Up until now, document
that have been digitized have been free e.g. the land petitions of Upper and
Lower Canada are free. Will we now have to pay a fee this fall to gain access to them?
Read
about the CBC report at http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/06/11/ottawa-library-archives-canada-paywall.html
2 comments:
Right now we don't have enough facts to make a determination as to what will actually be happening. Many people seem to be going off half-cocked and operating as if the information leaked is 100% fact. Canadiana, the day after that story came out, has issued a FAQ to hopefully clarify what is happening but for some strange reason they have not received the same amount of press: http://www.canadiana.ca/en/lac-project-faq.
Good point, Ken.
It will be interesting to see how it all shakes down in the end ..
Elizabeth
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