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Friday was Blue Jay day at Robertson school. The kids wore Blue
Jay hats, helmets„buttons t -shirts and jackets. The whole school
had Blue Jay fever. The children carried homemade signs and in-
flatable bats and Blue Jay dolls. All becaue their favorite team
made it to the American league playoffs. In a way it was kind of
their own little ceremony to wish the Blue Jays luck. The kids are
seen here at recess singing the Blue Jay song.(photo by Todd
Mowatt)
Task Group formed to preserve
historic newspapers in Ontario
Newspapers have played a vital role in the
development of the province of Ontario and
its many communities. They informed,
entertained, documented day to day events
and patterns of life, and served as a forum
for discussion of the issues of the day.
Now they have been discovered by the
historiap, the genealogist, the researcher
and the student as an important document
to study the evolution of the changing com-
munities they belonged to.
In many cases the existence and survival
of our pioneer newspapers reflected the
triumph of journalistic optimism over the
ever changing fortunes of the newspaper
business. Can we do less than to ensure their
continued care and preservation?
According to a recent survey by Dorothy
Templin, an expert in the field of historic
newspapers, commissioned by the National
Library of Canada, Ontario's 3500
newspaper titles are in trouble.
Not only is there no compreherisive inven-
tory of Ontario newspapers, including their
location and condition, but due to the
natural aging or breakdown of the paper,
accelerated by increased use for research
purposes, many newspaper files which have
never been microfilmed, are in danger of
physical disintegration.
In 1979 in the "Future of the National
Library of Canada,” the National Librarian
recommended the development of a nation-
wide decentralized plan for the preservation
of Canadian newspapers as support for
research in Canadian Studies, a plan that
emphasizes the role of the provinces in such
an endeavour.
To date, Ontario is the furthest behind
every other province in responding to this
challenge, even though we have the largest
pool of papers requiring preservation.
It is not known how many local
newspapers have never been microfilmed,
or, are filmed so poorly that the work must
be re -done. Organizing the preservation of
these newspapers for which no retrospec-
tive microfilming program exists, is
estimated to likely cost up to $500,000. for
high quality microfilming. and to take up to
five years to complete.
Financial support for this costly undertak-
ing will be sought from local libraries and
museums, the newspaper industry, com-
munity organizations. foundations. and the
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Province of Ontario. The complexity, cost
and its great value to the future make the
co-operative aspects of this entire project
essential.
The Task Group on Ontario Newspapeis
was formed in response to Legislative
Librarian Brian Land's request for Ontario
to become committed to the preservation of
this province's newspapers. Land, also the
Chairman of the National Library Advisory
Board Resource Network Committee agrees
that Templin's work makes very clear the
job to be done is enormous.
The members of the Task Group are: Co -
Chair Karen Harrison of Delhi Public
Library; Co -Chair William Partridge of
Huron County Public Library; Grover
Burgis, Brampton Public Library;
Elizabeth Callaghan, Ontario Community
Newspapers Association; William Cooper,
Archives of Ontarib; Mary Dickerson,
Legislative Library; Linda Kerns, Guelph
Public Library and Allen Steel, Micro -film
Equipment Services, headquartered in
Toronto.
The objectives of the Task Group are to:
1. Compile a checklist of all Ontario
newspapers.
2. Promote awareness of the project and
to solicit the co-operation of local com-
munities, municipal councils, public
libraries, historical societies, and all in-
terested parties.
3. Develop a plan to facilitate the annual
and retrospective microfilming of those
newspapers for which there is not. at pre-
sent, a microfilming program.
The Task Group estimates that it will take
up to two years to accomplish its goals to
publish the comprehensive checklist of
newspapers published in Ontario.
This will be facilitated by surveying agen-
cies in Ontario and elsewhere to gather
bibliographic information and holdings of
all newspapers published in Ontario. The
checklist will include newspaper titles of
which there are no known holdings.
The second challenge facing the Task
Group will be to organize the preservation of
newspapers themselves, whether they are
in their original newsprint format or in
microform. Newsprint is a fragile medium
at best; regrettably, some of this part of our
material history is already lost..
The longevity of microforms is not
specifically known although it is estimated
that under proper storage conditions pro-
cessed microfilm will have a shelf life of
about 100 years. It is essential therefore that
improved storage for film and access to.
reliable reading and printing equipment be
made available.
A new program under -taken by the On-
tario Community Newspapers Association
(O.C.N.A.) promises to solve the anntdal
microfilming problem for over 270 Ontario
Community Weeklies. Commencing with
January 1985 issues, these papers are filmed
within their week of publication and each
issued produced into microfilm. The pro-
duct,is available for purchase.
O.C.N. A. suggests that you contact them
for further information at 1 41 Speers Road,
P.O. Box 451, Oakville, Ontario, I.6.15A8, or
phone 1-416-844-0184.
As of April 1985, Brian Gilchrist an ex-
perienced newspaper researcher and the
Task Group's newly appointed Project
Director, had begun to work on the compila-
tion of the checklist.
Gilchrist has stressed that co-operation
from the agencies which are custodians of
the newspaper files will be essential to the
completion of the project.
Timely disclosure of the extent and condi-
tions of newspapers maintained by public
institutions and in fact private holdings such
as those held by local newspaper offices is
being sought by the Task Group project
Director.
At the same time, plans are underway to
fund the costly but important task of
microfilming newspapers whose need for
preservation is imperative.
Should anyone have information concern-
ing the holdings of public institutions or
private sources they are requested to con-
tact Gilchrist at: Box 176, Station M, Toron-
to, Ontario M6S 4T3, or phone collect: 1-416-
233-9636
UNICEF funding helps feed and
educate the street children of Brazil
Canadian children on the streets this
Hallowe'en trick -or -treating with UNI('EF
boxes will be helping thousands of Brazilian
children who rely on the streets for their
very survival.
Twenty million children between the age
of seven and 17 live on the streets of Brazil's
major cities. Known as "street children",
they are on the street to earn money ...
selling gum, peanuts. candy, and sadly,
themselves.
These children take to the streets in order
to survive because their families cannot
support them. Their financial contribution
often makes a difference between their
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UNICEF, the United Nations Children's
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UNI('EF projects provide them with
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Street children benefit directly from
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For every child UNICEF reaches in
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When Canadian school children learn
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