Editing Library and Archives Canada (section)

==Facilities==
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The building at 395 [[Wellington Street (Ottawa)|Wellington Street]] in [[downtown Ottawa]] is the main physical location where the public may access the collection in person. The building was officially opened on June 20, 1967.<ref name=VisitUs>{{cite web|title=Visit Us|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/visit-us/index-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 3, 2013|quote=Much of Library and Archives Canada's collection has not been digitized and is only available in physical form. To use this material, you will have to visit one of our locations.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Behind-the-Scenes Look at LAC: Services for the Public Available in Ottawa|date=November 15, 2012|url=http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/11/15/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-lac-services-for-the-public-available-in-ottawa/|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 4, 2013}}</ref> With the de-emphasis on physical visits, in-person services have been curtailed—for example, since April 2012, [[Reference interview|reference services]] are by appointment only—and the role of this building is decreasing.<ref>{{cite web|title=LAC begins implementation of new approach to service delivery |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-560-e.html |publisher=LAC |access-date=June 5, 2013 |quote=Our website now gets close to half a million visits per month. In contrast, LAC's in-person service hub located at 395 Wellington Street, receives about 2,000 visits per month. These two service points are also trending in opposite directions, with online consultations increasing rapidly, and in-person visits declining slowly but steadily. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529195737/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-560-e.html |archive-date=May 29, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Reference by Appointment|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/005/005-2100-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Curry/> There are also administrative offices in [[Gatineau|Gatineau, Quebec]], and preservation and storage facilities throughout Canada for federal government records.<ref name=VisitUs/><ref name=Numbers/><ref name=BehindScenes/><ref>{{cite web|title=Government Records Accessible Outside Ottawa|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-3050-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529202003/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-3050-e.html|archive-date=May 29, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Preservation Centre in the city centre of Gatineau, about 10 kilometres away from the Ottawa headquarters, was designed to provide a safe environment for the long-term storage and preservation of Canada's valuable collections. It was built at a cost of [[Canadian dollar|CDN$]]107 million, and the official opening took place on June 4, 1997. It is a unique building containing 48 climate-controlled preservation vaults and state-of-the-art preservation laboratories.<ref name=BehindScenes>{{cite web|title=A Behind-the-Scenes Look at LAC: The Gatineau Preservation Centre|date=January 19, 2012|url=http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/01/19/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-lac-the-gatineau-preservation-centre/|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=1997 December Report of the Auditor General of Canada|url=http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_199712_36_e_8139.html#0.2.L39QK2.4FNW9F.61EJQE.AA1|publisher=Office of the Auditor General of Canada|access-date=June 3, 2013|quote=As part of a composite project to respond to the needs of the National Archives of Canada, including the need to arrest the deterioration of records in existing storage facilities, a new conservation and laboratory building was constructed in the city centre of Gatineau, Quebec, at a total project cost of $107 million.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The LAC Preservation Centre: What's there? |url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/preservation/003003-2000-e.html |publisher=LAC |access-date=27 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530033557/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/preservation/003003-2000-e.html |archive-date=May 30, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/13/1302_e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 3, 2013}}</ref> In 2000, the [[Royal Architectural Institute of Canada]] named it one of the top 500 buildings constructed in Canada during the last millennium.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ty-a.ca/Citizen/top500.htm|title=Cultural consequence|last=Cook|first=Maria|date=May 11, 2000|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|access-date=October 11, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606070316/http://www.ty-a.ca/Citizen/top500.htm|archive-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref>
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| caption2          = Nitrate Film Preservation Facility
| footer            = Library and Archives Canada maintains several facilities throughout the [[National Capital Region (Canada)|National Capital Region]]
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A Nitrate Film Preservation Facility on the [[Communications Research Centre Canada|Communications Research Centre]] campus in [[Shirleys Bay]], on the outskirts of Ottawa, houses Canada's cellulose [[nitrate film]] collection.<ref>{{cite web|title=Nitrate Film Preservation Facility|date=January 1994|url=http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/dfrp-rbif/pn-nb/20580-eng.aspx|publisher=Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat|access-date=June 4, 2013}}</ref> The collection contains 5,575 film reels dating back to 1912, including some of the first Canadian motion pictures and photographic negatives.<ref name=Numbers/><ref>{{cite web|title=Library and Archives Canada Marks the Opening of the New Nitrate Film Preservation Facility|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-528-e.html|date=June 21, 2011|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 28, 2013}}</ref> The film material is highly sensitive and requires precise temperatures for its preservation. The state-of-the-art facility, which was officially opened on June 21, 2011,<ref>{{cite press release|title=Official Opening of Library and Archives Canada's Nitrate Film Preservation Centre|url=http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/media-advisory-official-opening-library-archives-canadas-nitrate-film-preservation-centre-1528098.htm|date=June 17, 2011|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 28, 2013}}</ref> is an eco-designed building featuring an [[environmentally friendly]] roof that provides better insulation and minimizes energy expenditures.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Behind-the-Scenes Look at LAC: The Nitrate Film Preservation Facility|date=January 24, 2012|url=http://thediscoverblog.com/2012/01/24/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-lac-the-nitrate-film-preservation-facility/|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 4, 2013}}</ref>

A planned key activity for 2013–14 was to rehouse analogue (non-digital) information resources in a new state-of-the-art high-density storage facility in Gatineau, where the national newspaper collection and records of [[World War II|Second World War]] veterans will be stored.<ref name=RPP201314/><ref>{{cite news|title=Library and Archives Canada preparing for big move|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/library-and-archives-canada-preparing-for-big-move-1.1193065|access-date=June 3, 2013|newspaper=CBC News|date=July 28, 2012}}</ref> The facility will feature a [[Warehouse#Automation and optimization|high bay]] metal shelving system with a suitable environment to better protect Canada's published heritage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Minutes of the Depository Services Program Library Advisory Committee (DSP-LAC) Meetings, 2009|url=http://publications.gc.ca/site/eng/depositoryLibraries/dsp-lac/meetingMinutes2009.html|publisher=Government of Canada|date=August 24, 2009|access-date=May 28, 2013|quote=It was recently announced that funding was received from Treasury Board to convert a building (formerly, a Zellers department store) in Gatineau into a high-density storage facility.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Montel Awarded the Library and Archives Canada New Collection Storage Facility High Bay Metal Storage Shelving Contract|date=January 18, 2012|url=http://www.montel.com/en/news/montel-awarded-the-library-and-archives-canada-new-collection-storage-facility-high-bay-metal-storage-shelving-contract|publisher=Montel|access-date=May 27, 2013}}</ref><ref name=Butler>{{cite news|last=Butler |first=Don |title=Museums mostly unconcerned about loss of federal funding |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/travel/Museums+mostly+unconcerned+about+loss+federal+funding/8031905/story.html |access-date=27 May 2013 |newspaper=Ottawa Citizen |date=February 28, 2013 |quote=Much of the $20-million decrease in the Library and Archives Canada budget is accounted for in the conversion of the building in Gatineau to a high-density shelving collection storage facility, which is nearly complete. |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130630024923/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/Museums+mostly+unconcerned+about+loss+federal+funding/8031905/story.html |archive-date=June 30, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In January 2019, Library and Archives Canada announced that negotiations for a new facility to be built next to the existing one in Gatineau were starting, with an opening date in 2022.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pilieci |first1=Vito |title=Government moves closer on $400-million document preservation facility |url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2019/negotiations-second-preservation-centre.aspx |access-date=March 23, 2019 |publisher=Library and Archives Canada |date=January 31, 2019}}</ref>

LAC's online collection is accessible via its website and LAC provides ongoing information online via its [[blog]], [[podcast]]s, the [[Twitter]] and [[Facebook]] [[social networking service]]s, the [[Flickr]] [[Image hosting service|image-sharing site]], and the [[YouTube]] [[Video hosting service|video-sharing site]]. [[RSS]] feeds provide links to new content on the LAC website and news about LAC services and resources.<ref name=Electronic/><ref>{{cite web|title=Stay Connected|date=June 8, 2012|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/stay-connected/Pages/stay-connected.aspx|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 26, 2013 |last1=Canada |first1=Library Archives }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Shamrock and the Maple Leaf|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/ireland/index-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 26, 2013}}</ref> A new modernized website is being developed and is scheduled for completion in 2013, with both new and old websites accessible during the transition period.<ref>{{cite web|title=Library and Archives Canada Revamped Web Presence|url=http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/lac-revamped-web-presence.aspx|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611175552/http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/lac-revamped-web-presence.aspx|archive-date=June 11, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>