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Canadian Libraries and GDP

Direct from one of my other associations - OLA:

"Libraries account for Gross Domestic Product

Libraries account for $1.3 billion of Canada's Gross Domestic Product.

The Conference Board of Canada released the report "Valuing Culture: Measuring and Understanding Canada's Creative Economy". In total, culture accounts for more than $43 billion or 3.8% of Canada's GDP.

The report features trends, drivers, economic footprint and global positioning in Canada's creative economy and can be downloaded for free (upon free subscription) from the Conference Board of Canada e-library:
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/ "

And that's just the cultural impact on GDP. Libraries certainly have many other positive impacts.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).