Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon. My name is Kelly Moore. I'm the executive director of the Canadian Library Association.
With me is Jan Harder, a member of CLA's executive council and president of the Canadian Library Trustees Association.
We appreciate this opportunity to meet with you in the context of your 2009 pre-budget consultation.
The Canadian Library Association is Canada's largest national, broad-based library association, representing the interests of public, academic, school and special libraries, as well as professional librarians, library workers, and library trustees.
Sustainable investments in libraries pay long-term dividends in having economically stronger and more socially inclusive communities. We would like to briefly highlight three critical issues for the library community as they relate to federal spending and taxation policy.