Library Collections and Socio-Cultural Reach
One of the things I have probably had the most difficult time with since moving from the city 3 years ago is the radical shrinking of my access to library holdings. Living in the city I had access to the largest public library system in Canada, and the largest academic/research library system in Canada and the third in North America (after Harvard and Yale). I also had access to another top ten on Canada research library as an alumna of York and access to many other college libraries. So it has been a bit of shock and also very upsetting to move to a place where frequently I will look for a book at either the University library or the public library and not find it in the collections. And yes I have been taking advantage of interlibrary loan when I can, but the point of this post this week is to give folk maybe a bit of pause about how the library collections where you are, both municipally or institutionally, are doing really heavy lifting in reinforcing the morals, beliefs, and polit...