Choice comments Feb 25. 2012 | Comments (1)
These archives are invaluable and since we already own them, why would we not keep them in the original form? – William Elliott
You don't sell the books to pay the rent on the library. – Harvey Armstrong
By all means dump more of our history... much like newspaper photo archives across the country. Yes, let’s make our history so much harder to find. What a splendid idea. Okay what's next - the National Archives? – Errol Bruce-Knapp
The BBC made that mistake decades ago when they erased tapes which they later regretted. – Marc Gérin-Lajoie
I remember how this happened long ago. All but 4 of Jake and the Kid programmes were lost. – Robert Banks Foster
History reviles those bureaucrats who value storage space over cultural heritage. – Michael Lennick
I am very dismayed as an arts educator and cultural historian to find the government dismantling this important archive. – Edward Bader
[W]hat's the rush ? – Barry Bruyere
PLEASE do not allow material to be lost simply because digital conversion has not been completed by some arbitrary deadline. If it takes longer, then it takes longer. Also, even if converted to digital form, LP records should be kept as long as possible . . . – Stephen Garth
You could bury an "old fashioned” phonograph record for a thousand years and dig it up, clean it and still play it like new. As for paper artifacts, I've seen with my own eyes notes and bills from the Titanic, still fully readable. Anything electronic is destined to fail . . . – Richard Rosichan
Digitizing the music library archives will not save money . . . Please find other means of saving costs within the CBC. – Donna Griblin
It's interesting to think of CBC as curator of audio artifacts, and maybe that is/should be part of its mandate, but the core issue driving this is decision is resources. And with the predicted 10% cuts, expect to lose a lot more than just the library. – John Paolozzi
You don't sell the books to pay the rent on the library. – Harvey Armstrong
By all means dump more of our history... much like newspaper photo archives across the country. Yes, let’s make our history so much harder to find. What a splendid idea. Okay what's next - the National Archives? – Errol Bruce-Knapp
The BBC made that mistake decades ago when they erased tapes which they later regretted. – Marc Gérin-Lajoie
I remember how this happened long ago. All but 4 of Jake and the Kid programmes were lost. – Robert Banks Foster
History reviles those bureaucrats who value storage space over cultural heritage. – Michael Lennick
I am very dismayed as an arts educator and cultural historian to find the government dismantling this important archive. – Edward Bader
[W]hat's the rush ? – Barry Bruyere
PLEASE do not allow material to be lost simply because digital conversion has not been completed by some arbitrary deadline. If it takes longer, then it takes longer. Also, even if converted to digital form, LP records should be kept as long as possible . . . – Stephen Garth
You could bury an "old fashioned” phonograph record for a thousand years and dig it up, clean it and still play it like new. As for paper artifacts, I've seen with my own eyes notes and bills from the Titanic, still fully readable. Anything electronic is destined to fail . . . – Richard Rosichan
Digitizing the music library archives will not save money . . . Please find other means of saving costs within the CBC. – Donna Griblin
It's interesting to think of CBC as curator of audio artifacts, and maybe that is/should be part of its mandate, but the core issue driving this is decision is resources. And with the predicted 10% cuts, expect to lose a lot more than just the library. – John Paolozzi
if CBC is gearing up for a conservative government's non-forward-thinking cuts on culture, it must ask for help anywhere legitimately possible to preserve the contents in all the regional, sub-regional and national collections. a hard-copy of everything available will prove more valuable in the end than all of the digitized libraries. – Anonymous
CBC is the last semblance of cultural identity that makes our country feel like we're in this together... don't make it weaker. Invest in making it stronger. – Matt Epp
[F]ind an alternate way to raise the money to pay for storage, recording, etc. Use some imagination!! – Marguerite Stonehouse
[T]his vast archive of music, collected by our nation's public broadcaster, is not being utilized for the CBC's new digital radio strategy unveiled this month. Instead, a private, for-profit, company, AVLA Inc., (part of CRIA's sphere), is supplying the CBC with its licensed content – a lot of it from major/corporate labels. – Adrian
I want to hear the music WE paid for and own. I don't want to hear the music you are offering up from AVLA. – Helen Mears
[I]f CBC cannot maintain this, what about national archives? – Andrew Gilbert
[T]his vast archive of music, collected by our nation's public broadcaster, is not being utilized for the CBC's new digital radio strategy unveiled this month. Instead, a private, for-profit, company, AVLA Inc., (part of CRIA's sphere), is supplying the CBC with its licensed content – a lot of it from major/corporate labels. – Adrian
I want to hear the music WE paid for and own. I don't want to hear the music you are offering up from AVLA. – Helen Mears
[I]f CBC cannot maintain this, what about national archives? – Andrew Gilbert
It would make sense if several different university libraries and archives got together a shared the collection. – David Sims
As a community broadcaster, I find the use of the archival materials on CBC Radio an inspiration. Vancouver Co-op Radio also has an archive of material which is being given to the Vancouver Archives. I ask that a similar arrangement be made for the CBC archive, if the material cannot be kept where it is now. – Jim Burnett
Decades from now, the decision to discard these archives will be viewed as a grave, irreversible act of cultural vandalism. – Viktor Toth
The CBC is the fabric that holds this country together.To cut even one thread is an outrageous prospect!