Patience and Fortitude, Canadian Style: lecture by Patricia Demers
Lessons from the Expert Panel on the Status of Canada's Libraries and Archives.
Humanities Research Unit presents:
Patience and Fortitude, Canadian Style: Lessons from the Expert Panel on Libraries and Archives
MONDAY, NOV. 02
3:30-5:00 PM
THORV 159, THORVALDSON BUILDING
Lecture by Patricia Demers
Distinguished university professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Patricia Demers recently chaired the Royal Society of Canada's eleven-person Expert Panel on the Status of Canada's Libraries and archives. The panel's report, The Future Now: Canada's Libraries, Archives, and Public Memory / L'avenir au présent: les bibliothèques, les centres d’archives et la mémoire collective au Canada (2014), is available online at the RSC site: www.rsc-src.ca .
Free admission. All are welcome.
For further information contact Len Findlay: len.findlay@usask.ca or 306-966-2573
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