Statement made on 27 October 2009 by Senator Claudette Tardif
Hon. Claudette Tardif (Deputy Leader of the Opposition):
Honourable senators, I am pleased to rise today to congratulate Mr. Ernie Ingles, Vice-Provost and Chief Librarian of the University of Alberta, who was recently designated President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
For over 30 years, Ernie Ingles has been a key player in the Canadian library community. As part of his commitment to Canadian libraries, Mr. Ingles has been a member of numerous associations, such as the Bibliographic Society of Canada, the Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries, and has served as President of the Canadian Library Association.
Furthermore, Mr. Ingles has held library positions at the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary, the University of Regina and, since 1990, the University of Alberta, where I had the pleasure of working with him as part of the university's leadership team.
Mr. Ingles is a founding Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, now known as Canadiana.org, an organization committed to digitizing Canadian knowledge and to providing online access to a wealth of information pertaining to our nation's history and development.
Mr. Ingles is also a published author of over 30 articles and four monographic compilations. More recently, he compiled and co-edited a revised edition of Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953. For his outstanding contributions to research and knowledge, Mr. Ingles was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2003.
As President of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries, Mr. Ingles will lead an organization comprising the following: Twenty-eight major academic research libraries across the country; Library and Archives Canada; the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, and the Library of Parliament.
I congratulate Mr. Ingles and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries on behalf of all senators.