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Monday, 28th May 2007

Canada: Update 2007: Collection and Preservation of Web-Based Provincial/Territorial Government Publications

Canada: Update 2007: Collection and Preservation of Web-Based Provincial/Territorial Government Publications

by Andrew Hubbertz
17 pages; PDF.

From the intro:

The 2005 study, which preceded this one, surveyed members of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) and Canadian provincial and territorial legislative libraries.1 One of the findings from that study was that legislative libraries were the principal players in the collection and preservation of web-based government information. The notable exception was the province of Quebec, where Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), formerly the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, is charged with that role. In most cases, the provincial and territorial legislative libraries have been collecting the publications of their jurisdictions in print for many years. In some cases, this is an informal arrangement, in many it is legally mandated, as it is as well for the BAnQ. In some jurisdictions, the legal mandate has been formally extended to electronic publications. In spring 2007, CARL engaged the author to update the 2005 study. Given what was learned in 2005, no attempt was made to revisit CARL libraries. And the legislative libraries and BAnQ, when approached, were simply asked to describe what activities, if any, they have undertaken. There has been no attempt to utilize a survey instrument or to gather statistics across these jurisdictions.

Source: CARL (Canadian Research Libraries


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