The Irish government Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have published their ‘Public Service Reform Plan’ (17 November 2011) http://per.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/Public-Service-Reform-pdf.pdf which states that the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht proposes to merge [the] National Archives & the Irish Manuscripts Commission into the National Library while maintaining separate identities.
What are your opinions on this?
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Some links to maybe give some context!
Ireland
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Archives-and-Records-Association-Ireland/142505616780?sk=wall
http://twitter.com/archivesireland
http://puesoccurrences.com/2010/01/28/crisis-facing-the-national-archives-of-ireland/
http://puesoccurrences.com/2010/04/12/archives-in-crisis-the-response/
Canada
http://rbm.acrl.org/content/8/1/61.full.pdf
New Zealand
Irish Government’s Reform Plans worry genealogists
The Irish Genealogical Research Society (IGRS) is concerned that a so-called merger of the National Archives “into” the National Library could diminish these vital heritage services...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Irish-Genealogical-Research-Society/224048917610708
http://irish-genealogy-news.blogspot.com/2011/11/governments-reform-plans-worry-igrs.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1119/1224307814661.html
Link to Fintan O' Toole's article in Saturday's Irish Times (19 November 2011) on the proposed merger of the National Archives and the Irish Manuscripts Commission into the National Library of Ireland.