Philanthropic Phriday 57: LAC Foundation
Apr. 16th, 2021 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blogcutterHappy International Special Librarians Day (ISLD) everyone! It has been 30 years since the first ISLD was announced. For that occasion I, along with many other colleagues in my profession, got a special kit from the Special Libraries association. I still have some items from that kit, most notably a coffee mug from which I drank my breakfast coffee this morning. The pens have long since been lost, discarded or given away but I do still have one or two pads of the sticky-notes and pin-on badges from that kit.
Every year there is a slightly different theme or slogan - the first was "Information Beyond Borders: Building Global Partnerships" and had a globe logo which was on all the publicity materials. Later, the name of the occasion was changed to Information Ethics Day:
https://targetstudy.com/knowledge/day/238/international-special-librarians-day-information-ethics-day.html
The idea of information ethics struck me as being particularly important as I read the recent book by Richard Ovenden (director of the Bodleian Library at Oxford), Burning The Books, in which he looks at instances of the destruction (whether deliberate or otherwise) of human knowledge in the form of books, archival documents and digital files throughout history.
Earlier this week, final drawings are to be released for the new superlibrary - a combined Ottwawa Public Library and Library & Archives Canada to be built at 555 Wellington:
https://inspire555.ca/welcome
All of which brings me to the recipient of my donation this week, the LAC (Library and Archives Canada) foundation:
https://lacfoundation.ca/
Books and reading have played a huge role in keeping me semi-sane during the pandemic and the long stretches of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. I'm sure many, many people around the world feel the same way. So happy reading everyone, whatever your particular literary poison!
Every year there is a slightly different theme or slogan - the first was "Information Beyond Borders: Building Global Partnerships" and had a globe logo which was on all the publicity materials. Later, the name of the occasion was changed to Information Ethics Day:
https://targetstudy.com/knowledge/day/238/international-special-librarians-day-information-ethics-day.html
The idea of information ethics struck me as being particularly important as I read the recent book by Richard Ovenden (director of the Bodleian Library at Oxford), Burning The Books, in which he looks at instances of the destruction (whether deliberate or otherwise) of human knowledge in the form of books, archival documents and digital files throughout history.
Earlier this week, final drawings are to be released for the new superlibrary - a combined Ottwawa Public Library and Library & Archives Canada to be built at 555 Wellington:
https://inspire555.ca/welcome
All of which brings me to the recipient of my donation this week, the LAC (Library and Archives Canada) foundation:
https://lacfoundation.ca/
Books and reading have played a huge role in keeping me semi-sane during the pandemic and the long stretches of lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. I'm sure many, many people around the world feel the same way. So happy reading everyone, whatever your particular literary poison!
