{"id":8352,"date":"2017-05-03T08:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=8352"},"modified":"2017-05-04T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T02:02:04","slug":"the-virtual-reference-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-virtual-reference-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Reference Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Revenge of Analog – Virtual Public Library<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. I heard on the television news last night that one victim of the Wynne government’s success in “balancing the budget” was the Toronto Public Library (TPL). Funding was arbitrarily cut and the TPL seems unable to accommodate such a cut between budgets.<\/p>\n

One likely victim is the virtual reference library \u00a0(VRL)<\/a> which relies upon posting scans and videos of sources \u00a0(photographs, documents, videos, etc.) held by the TPL. The government says in its defence that viewership of the VRL web site has been declining…<\/p>\n

Sounds like the logic of my old school principal, god rest his soul, who, after recently arriving at our school, announced to his grade eight class that we marched so poorly that\u00a0he decided to cut the daily marching music until we improved. Really? \u00a0I graduated to high school some months later without ever marching\u00a0again\u00a0to\u00a0the thrilling sounds of \u00a0John Philip Sousa<\/a>\u00a0or the Colonel Bogey<\/a> march.<\/p>\n

NOTE: The next day (May 3rd, 2017), the Ontario government reversed its decision and said it will continue the TPL funding as in previous years.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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