Canada, Two National Bibliographic Agencies, Two ApproachesPat RivaDirection du traitement documentaire des collections patrimoniales
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Outline
• Why does Canada have 2 NBAs and 2 Bibliographies?• Availability of the 2 Bibliographies• Cataloguing levels and priorities• Integration of digital materials
I know more about BAnQ than about LAC!
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NBAs in Canada, History
• Library and Archives Canada (LAC)– 2004: National Library of Canada (1953) +
Public Archives of Canada (1872)• Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du
Québec (BAnQ)– 2002: Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
(1967) + Grande Bibliothèque (1998)– 2006: BNQ + Archives nationales du
Québec (1920)
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NBAs in Canada
• LAC– Serves Canada at a federal level– Bilingual services (English and French)– Legal deposit, all Canadian publications
• BAnQ– Serves the Province of Québec– French– Additional legal deposit, all Québec
publications
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National Bibliographies
• Canadiana (NLC then LAC)– Print 1951-1991 (monthly + annual)– Microfiche to Dec. 2000– CD-ROM annual to 2007– MARC Records Distribution Service
(MRDS) • Bibliographie du Québec (BNQ then BAnQ)– Print 1968-2002 (monthly + annual)– HTML 2003- (monthly + annual)
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Canadiana record distribution
• Amicus, national union catalogue– Free! and continuously updated– Z39.50 service
• MRDS, files by ftp– Monographs (weekly)• Books, videos, cd-roms, ebooks
– Music and sound recordings (monthly)– Authorities (bi-weekly)
• Distributed to WorldCat, A-G Canada, VIAF
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BAnQ record distribution
• IRIS, online catalogue– WebExport, 1-by-1 record download
• SQTD (Service québécois du traitement documentaire), cataloguing portal– Will be available in 2013– Bibliographic and authority records
• Québec government documents– Monthly files for downloading
• Only CIP records on Amicus or WorldCat
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Bibliographie du Québec, 1821-1967
• Monographs published or printed in Québec prior to legal deposit• 60,000 records• As of 2009, as a separate online database• As well as in IRIS
• Value added, extra indexes by:–Publisher, Printer, City, Date, broad subject
categories
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Cataloguing Levels, Canadiana (2008 policy)
• Full: all access points, with authority records, LCC, DDC, LCSH/RVM
• Core: primary names and titles, with authority records, LCC, DDC, core LCSH/RVM
• Minimal: primary names and titles, with authority records, LCC, abridged DDC, no subjects
• Abbreviated: title, 1 name access point (no authorities), no classification, no subjects
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Cataloguing Levels, Canadiana (2008 policy)
• Full: most current publications, all reference and genealogy
• Core: current music sound recordings and federal government documents
• Minimal: provincial government documents, research technical reports, rare books
• Abbreviated: older than current year -3, all minor pubs, municipal govt documents
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Cataloguing Priorities, Canadiana (2008 policy)
• Top priority: CIP program records, federal depository services program, all reference
• Next: CIP completion, current publications for special collections and areas of emphasis
• Current publications catalogued prior to older
• Digital prior to print and other analogue
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Cataloguing Levels, BAnQ (2012 policies)
• Full: all access points, with authority records, DDC, LCC, RVM
• Core (allégé): primary names and titles, with authority records, DDC, LCC (usually), RVM
• Minimal: basic names and titles, with authority records, DDC, no LCC, genre/form subjects only
• Enriched: full + additional access, detailed description
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Cataloguing Levels, BAnQ (2012 policies)
• Full: commercial publications (including CIP completion), Québec government documents, self-published, all genealogy
• Core (allégé): non-commercial publishers, most municipal government documents, school textbooks, research technical reports
• Minimal: minor publications (not included in BQC)
• Enriched: BQR, rare books (prior to 1851)
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Cataloguing Priorities, BAnQ (2012 policies)
• Top priority: CIP program records, user requests, current Québec government documents
• Next: Current and previous year imprints
• Next: All earlier imprints, priority to commercial publishers
• Current receipts catalogued first
• Online same priority as other formats
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Digital Resources and Legal Deposit
• Canada• Legal deposit of digital resources as of 2004• Web harvesting
• Québec• Legal deposit only for tangible media• Voluntary deposit for online is growing
• Québec government and para-public sectors• Some commercial ebooks
• Web harvesting
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E-Resources in the Bibliographie du Québec
• Own section (as now)• Integrated by subject or type of content• Combination– E-resource subsections
• Is this question still relevant?
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In Conclusion
• Different emphasis, different distribution mechanisms• Evolving to meet new challenges• Linked data—what role within national
bibliography?• UBC is still needed
Titre
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