End of an era

[krin723]

I have just had a message telling me the library at the Cancer Council Victoria is to close and the collection to be transfered to Monash University. I'm sure once there, this unique collection will just disappear and/or be tossed in the recyling. At least the bastard management are getting a card together for my poor old boss (he hasn't a hope of

Comments

[mortonhall]

that is sad :( Does sound like you were holding the place together!

[bekytg]

Very sad. Libraries always suffer.

[kremmen]

Is moving the library going to matter? They fund research, but do they do any themselves? If they are stupid, maybe Monash will take better care of it anyhow?

Seeing your comment, I had a look at their web site, where they proudly prattle on about how evil they think the Senate is for not maintaining an inequitable, unworkable tax on one particular style of alcoholic drinks. Stupid, indeed.

[krin723]

The Cancer Council was very proud at one time at the research it did, the council also funds various research projects. The collection won't be kept as a seperate entity but will just incorporated into the Monash University library collection. It's value is in the information being specially cancer based. As the keeper of the collection until October last year, I can tell you it was well kept!

[krin723]

I was gobsmacked last year when the head of IT (where library services ended up) said exactly the same thing to me : Isn't everything available on the internet? Even when I explained it in simple words, he didn't understand.

[mireille21]

Arghh!

[narrelle]

A depressing piece of news - specialist libraries for specialist research strike me as a necessity, not a frippery. :-(