The brief itemizes CAUT’s pressing concerns with LAC: the neglect of legal deposit, declining acquisition numbers, the code of conduct, loss of knowledgeable staff, and the small percentage of holding actually digitized (0.5%), among other issues... Launched campaing in 2011 "Save LAC" and 2012 "Canada's Past Matters"; Critical of LAC's 'modernization' strategy; antiquarian booksellers have given up on LAC; LAC is not acquiring important pieces of Canada's heritage (examples offered); researcher experience at LAC negative due to staff cuts; LAC promotes deprofessionalization by having creators, donors, and users (rather than librarians and archivists) write descriptions of collections; condemnation of LAC code of conduct; LAC has reduced public access; offers stats on LAC's digitization work; still waiting for LAC's "Lender of Last Resort" policy; lists requirements for next LAC leader; critiques reduced funding to LAC and closure of ILL and elimination of CAP; critiques cuts and closures of federal libraries; calls for NADP funding to be restored to regional and local archives; outlines impacts to historical sites due to budget cuts; discusses Canadian History Museum (CAUT opposes destruction of Museum of Civilization); discusses Conservatives' interference in and revision of Canadian history as an attack on Canada's cultural memory.
