Canadian Health Scientists Resort To Sneaker Net After Funding Slashed

sandbagger writes "Health Canada scientists are so concerned about losing access to their research library that they're finding workarounds, with one squirreling away journals and books in his basement for colleagues to consult, says a report obtained by CBC News. The report said the number of in-house librarians went from 40 in 2007 to just six in April 2013. 'I look at it as an insidious plan to discourage people from using libraries' said Dr. Rudi Mueller, who left the department in 2012. 'If you want to justify closing a library, you make access difficult and then you say it is hardly used.' This is hardly new for Stephen Harper's Conservative government. Over the Christmas holidays, several scientific libraries were closed and their contents taken to the dump."

Comments

Re:So-called "conservatism" in action.

[rmdingler]

Well done cowards.

This is why I'm up after dark, on my own time, posting on the Green Line Site.

Mmm hmmm... a little coward on coward action.

Just so you guys (and when I say guys, I mean revolutionaries) know, life here is too good so far.

Is the quality slippin'?

Sure. Just not fast enough to get out of the slowly warming pot of water.

Re:Not only in the US...

[ultranova]

Educated masses are not useful to Conservative political parties.

Fixed that for you.