How to Consult Material that Is Not Yet Available Online
For Archival Material – Use Archives Search When searching for archival material (i.e., diaries, photographs etc.), use Archives Search. You will be able to search database records, known as “archival...
View ArticleHow to Find Digitized Publications
Now, more than ever, you can access print publications online. The trick is finding them. So, our reference specialists at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) offer the following tips to help you...
View ArticleHow to Find Digitized Publications – Part II
In our post on “How to Find Digitized Publications”, we promised to share more recommendations from our reference specialists about where to find digitized publications. The following sources point to...
View ArticleHow to find photographs that are not yet available online – part one
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has more than 25 million photographs, one of the largest archival photographic collections in the world. To make these collections more accessible, LAC has undertaken...
View ArticleHow to find photographs that are not yet available online – part two
Our previous article “How to find photographs that are not yet available online—part one” explained the best-case scenario for finding photographs that are not yet available online. But what happens...
View ArticleThe 40th Anniversary of ISSN Canada
2014 marks the 40th anniversary of ISSN Canada, the Canadian national centre for ISSN, (International Standard Serial Numbers). ISSN Canada, a unit within the Bibliographic Description section at...
View ArticleThe TD Summer Reading Club is back!
The TD Summer Reading Club 2014 was officially launched on June 3rd in Ottawa, Ontario, with the participation of the project partners: TD Bank Group, Toronto Public Library and Library and Archives...
View ArticleA page in every Canadian book: Cataloguing in Publication
In your hurry to start reading a new book, you may occasionally have noticed on the back of the title page a rather strange arrangement of words and numbers headed by the caption, “Library and Archives...
View ArticleThe Rare Book Collection: recent additions
A collection of 500 pre-1800 books were recently relocated to a permanent location in Library and Archives Canada’s rare books vault. The vault is equipped with optimal environmental conditions to...
View ArticleSubject Headings emblazoned with maple leaves
Subject access to Library and Archives Canada’s collection is made primarily through the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). A list of these headings has been actively maintained by the...
View ArticleBehind the scenes at the library: a glance at cataloguing librarianship
By Arouce Wasty October is Library Month, a time to celebrate libraries and the work that librarians, library technicians and library staff do to ensure that knowledge and information resources are...
View ArticleIt’s All in Your Perspective
By Kristen Ann Coulas To quote Aminata Diallo from Lawrence Hill’s award-winning novel, The Book of Negroes: “When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations.” I’m sure most of us...
View ArticleThe prime minister as reader
By Meaghan Scanlon Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) Prime Ministers and the Arts: Creators, Collectors and Muses exhibition looks at Canada’s prime ministers through the lens of their relationships...
View ArticleRetrospective publications: better late than never
By Euphrasie Mujawamungu Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC) mandate includes the acquisition of all documents published in Canada, regardless of format, subject or language. This mandate also covers...
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