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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