Canada is slowly abandoning efforts to create a digital archive of our national history. (See also: CBC sells it’s vinyl archive.)
The [Library and Archives Canada] lost half of its digitization staff in the month of April, a cutback that’s especially painful considering only an estimated four percent of the library’s total material has been digitized to date. The acquiring of new collections has also ground to a halt: the LAC’s last acquisition was in 2009, leaving historical documents to instead scatter and fall into the hands of private collectors and institutions.
