Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, a professional librarian is a person who of course has graduated from university, has the necessary training in the filing, the Dewey Decimal System we talked about before. The community librarian positions are often part-time and the person hired usually does not have much experience in working in a library. This makes the role of the regional librarian more essential to maintaining the community library services. My follow up question to the Minister on this area is: with the advent of Nunavut in April 1, 1999, one of the key areas the NIC has recommended to this government is having a library service set up. By eliminating the library position today, it means we will have to rehire and restructure that position for tomorrow. I think that is dumb planning on behalf of this government. I do not think it is strategic. I do not think it is acceptable. Mr. Todd is agreeing with me. My follow up question now to the Minister concerning the regional librarian position is: what about the Legislative Library that is currently trying to be set up in the capital of Nunavut, with all the duplicate files being sent over, who will be maintaining the system? Who will be filing the system? Who will be doing that work? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Edward Picco on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 25th, 1997. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 24th, 1997
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Edward Picco Iqaluit
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