Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 05/01/2014 22:37:
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/04/canadian-libraricide-tories-t.html
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/23/Canadian-Science-Libraries/
As usual, reports of their death were greatly exaggerated. «The Department’s 11 library locations will be consolidated into 4 locations [...] The Department may remove only content that is duplicated at one or more libraries and, in rare instances, materials which fall outside the subject disciplines pertinent to the department’s mandate from its collection» http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/FAQ-eng.htm
Those might be lies, but they say they're not really reducing their collections. As sad as it is, using taxpayers' money to store duplicate items in expensive locations is no longer possible. I only wish we had dismantled more of the practically inaccessible 100+ libraries of my university when I was in the board... the resistence, believe me, comes usually from very short-sighted professors who only care about formal "libraries" which are actually only a set of shelves in their own offices that nobody but them and their close friends can and do use.
Nemo