New Jack Librarian: The Heritage Heritage Minute and The Digital Library of Canada We Lost

Use the link to access the full text blog post summarizing the recent events and background information on the Canadian Heritage Project.   The post opens as follows: "It's time for me to write about Heritage - the ten year digitization project that is being undertaken by the non-profit charity Canadiana.org with 50,000 reels of microfilmed historical material from Canada's national library, Library and Archives Canada - which has been partly funded by most of the university libraries of Canada through CRKN, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, which raised $1.74 million dollars toward the deal signed on June 14th. CRKN is a licensing agency that negotiates deals with publishers and then brings those deals to its members to sign onto. Normally, for those librarians - like myself - who are not privy to the conversations of library directors or not among the small set of subscribers to the restricted CRKN listserv, it is not unusual to hear about the proposed deals only after they have been signed and committed to by their leadership. But that didn't happen this time. What happened?  To explain, let's have a Heritage Minute ..."