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No Small Press(ur)es
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Feliciter
- Article date:
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May 1, 2008
- Author:
- Cameron, A A
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Copyright informationCopyright Canada Library Association 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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It is a duty of Canadian libraries to support our literary culture. If we are to maintain a national culture, the public reader and the student need to see their national paradigms and local realities reflected in what they read, just as much as in what they hear and view. Canadian libraries have a duty to support "CanCon". This is mortar for nation building.
Let's agree to disbelieve in the disappearance of library and book in one single, brief snap of technological digits. The rising numbers of chapbook and broadside publishers testifies that paper continues to be a viable publishing medium. Jay Ruzesky of Outlaw Editions says:
With government cutbacks and other economic pressures through ...