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Investing Oil Dollars Wisely

We’re told that the oil won’t last forever. Therefore the investments in libraries in Alberta (Canada’s oil-rich province) are to be commended.
The Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library is “a digital library that will allow post-secondary students and faculty across the province to access the digitized resources and knowledge currently held in the individual libraries of post-secondary institutions.” This will amount to approximately $30 million over 3 years towards “the acquisition of digital information products, implementation of infrastructure to deliver information to the entire post-secondary system, and the development of four regional Digitization Centres.”
You can read the plan here.
Another big honking vision developed collaboratively by librarians.
This will pay dividends for all libraries as Alberta invests, learns and shares.
Alberta has a long tradition of province-wide cooperation through The Alberta Library. This goes to show that vision can be achieved through patience, collaboration and sharing.
Stephen

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Posted on: March 1, 2006, 7:38 am Category: Uncategorized

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  1. You posted a day early, Stephen!: Alberta government provides $20 million boost for library services.
    http://www.gov.ab.ca/acn/200603/19525BC4609DD-F194-7F4C-216ADE66CFCF5373.html