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Background

The Library Action Committee of the Book and Periodical Council undertook a research project in July 1996 to review the importance of public libraries to library users, suppliers, publishers, retailers and other businesses, as well as to Canadian culture; to analyze the effects of reduced funding to public libraries on the economy and society at large; and to produce a discussion paper that outlined these themes and concerns.

The Library Action Committee would like to thank the following groups and organizations for their financial and/or project support:

  • Young Canada Works in Heritage Institutions Program, through the Canadian Library Association
  • Association of Canadian Publishers
  • Canadian Publishers' Council
  • Canadian library wholesalers
  • Council of Administrators of Large Urban Public Libraries
  • Administrators of Medium Sized Public Libraries of Ontario
  • Ontario Wholesalers, Librarians and Publishers Action Group
  • Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
  • National Library of Canada

Jody Warner, MLS, was hired to research and prepare a discussion paper which was then turned over to the supervising Task Group members (drawn from the Library Action Committee) for editing. The Task Group consisted of Eric Hicks, wholesaler; Jane Watkins and Leslie Fitch, Canadian Library Association, and Nancy Fleming, Book and Periodical Council.

The Task Group would like to express their appreciation to everyone who helped to bring this document to fruition, especially Rosemary Tanner and Barbara Sale Schon. We are grateful to Webcom Limited for printing and binding this document at no charge.

The Library Action Committee is grateful for the support and encouragement of the National Library of Canada in this project and many others over the past eighteen years.

Limited copies of this document are available from the Book and Periodical Council and online on the Canadian Library Association's website, http://www.cla.amlibs.ca.
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