They’re still acquiring paper documents and books, just not buying.
I have seen us take these things that are fragile and couldn’t stand that much handling and we have digitized them and put them out where everyone can see them…
That said, only about 1% of Canada’s documentary history is online… and we have a whole generation who believe that, if they can’t call it up on their computer or on their BlackBerry, it doesn’t exist.
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| — | Ian Wilson, the retiring Librarian and Archivist of Canada, in a Kingston Whig Standard article. |
