Canada gets failing grade for school libraries

The Globe & Mail has another Sad Story on the sorry state of school libraries in Canada.

They say the rush onto the Internet seems to be harming school libraries, with everyone thinking schools don\’t need to build libraries and don\’t need to have a budget for book acquisition.

\”The state of our nation\’s libraries can only be described as a desperate one in almost every province in Canada,\” Mr. Carrier writes in a draft of a statement to be published this fall. \”In my regular visits to library communities across the country, there is consistent heartbreak.\”