In today's La Presse, the Montreal-based daily, the communications head of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) , Marc Comeau, is quoted as saying that the institution will set up a new modified inter-library loan service in 2013 and act as the lender of last resort when it is the only Canadian institution to hold a particular item ["un service de prêteur de dernier recours lorsqu'il sera la seule institution au pays à détenir un ouvrage quelconque"].
As members of the Canadian library community know, LAC terminated its existing inter-library loan service earlier in December. That service had been essential to the work of libraries and researchers across Canada.
According to La Presse, LAC's inter-library loan employees, all of whom had already been laid off, were invited earlier today to a meeting. None of these experienced staff members has yet been invited to join the new service.
To be followed as the saying goes...
fingers crossed LAC makes the right decision and brings back ILL.
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