From the CLA Mission Statement: "CLA/ACB is my advocate and public voice, educator and network. We build the Canadian library and information community and advance its information professionals."
In our role as advocates for information professionals, we feel it is our responsibility to support our colleagues in this profession as they seek respect and acknowledgement of the vital contribution they make to the university community. The recent strike by UWO's librarians and archivists is in a local context, but its outcome effects everyone in the information field. There is no library without librarians; there is no archive without archivists. In our view, expressing our support for the librarians and archivists is expressing our support of the library and archives as a whole because they are an integral part of a team of employees that make these institutions function. We are very pleased that a tentative agreement has been reached between both parties in this dispute.
