CRKN in the News

Beyond books: McGill’s libraries serve all
By Neale McDevitt, McGill Reporter

“It’s not just a sound bite, but I have the best job on campus,” said McGill’s new Trenholme Dean of Libraries Colleen Cook, earlier this week in an interview with the McGill Reporter. “Whether they are undergraduate students, graduate students or faculty – whether they are chemists or physicians or lawyers in training or undergraduate English majors or German majors – they are all ours. The Library serves them all.”

Other strengths?
Absolutely. Just by virtue of being in Canada – national licenses for electronic information in Canada allow research libraries to capitalize upon economies of scale so that every dollar that goes to electronic resources goes a lot farther than it would in the U.S. On the collection side, the breadth and depth of our electronic holdings are great and the Rare and Special Collections here are superb. Read more

Canadian education faces technology tipping point – by Michael Geist

While technology has become a core part of the educational process, it has often been treated as a complement – rather than a replacement – for traditional educational materials. Libraries still spend hundreds of millions of dollars on physical books and journals, some professors still generate paper-based course packs, and the schools themselves still pay millions of dollars in copying licensing fees.