Editing Library and Archives Canada (section)

==Collection==
[[File:National Archives Microfilm Room, Ottawa.jpg|thumb|Storage units for the institution's microfilm collection at the Library and Archives Canada building.]]
The Library and Archives of Canada's holdings include:<ref name="Collection" />
[[File:Views of icebergs taken at sea, off Scott Inlet, Baffin Island Photos d’icebergs prises en mer, sur le bras Scott, au large de l’île de Baffin (48188946567).jpg|thumb|A photo album of icebergs from the Library and Archives of Canada's collection.]]
* 250 linear kilometres of [[Government of Canada|Canadian Government]] and representative private textual records
** textual archives for various individuals and groups who have contributed to the cultural, social, economic and political development of Canada
* 22 million books and publications acquired largely through [[legal deposit]]
* 24 million photographic images (including [[Photographic printing|prints]], [[Negative (photography)|negatives]], [[Film slides|slides]], and [[Digital photography|digital photos]])
* over 3 million architectural drawings, plans, and maps
* over 90,000 films (including short and full-length films, documentaries, and silent films)
* over 550,000 hours of audio and video recordings
* over 425,000 works of art (including watercolours, oil paintings, sketches, caricatures and miniatures, as well as medals, seals, posters and coats of arms)
* about 550,000 musical items (including the largest collection of Canadian [[sheet music]] in the world; documentation related to music in Canada; and recordings on disks and records of all formats, including [[piano roll]]s, reels and [[Spooling|spools]], and [[8-track tape]]s)
* the [[Canadian Postal Museum|Canadian Postal Archives]];
* [[national newspaper]]s from across Canada, including [[daily newspaper]]s, [[List of student newspapers in Canada|student newspapers]], Indigenous magazines, and ethnic community newsletters.

Notable items in the collection include:<ref name="Numbers">{{cite news|date=May 3, 2013|title=Library and Archives Canada – By the numbers|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/Library+Archives+Canada+numbers/8335604/story.html|url-status=dead|access-date=June 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527011049/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Library+Archives+Canada+numbers/8335604/story.html|archive-date=May 27, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*the Proclamation of Canada's ''[[Constitution Act, 1982]]'', which bears marks left by raindrops during a ceremony on [[Parliament Hill]] in April 1982 when [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth II]] signed it;<ref>{{cite web|title=Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982|url=http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3782519|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130628051937/http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3782519|archive-date=June 28, 2013|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC|quote=This original copy of the Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 is the one which was signed by HM Queen Elizabeth II on Parliament Hill, 17 April 1982. Damaged slightly by rain during the signing ceremony, this version is informally known as the 'raindrop' copy.}}</ref>
*a copy of the ''[[Constitution Act, 1867]]'' (aka the ''British North America Act''), which features editing changes made by the first [[Prime Minister of Canada]], [[John A. Macdonald|Sir John A. Macdonald]];<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir John A. Macdonald: Canada's Patriot Statesman|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/sir-john-a-macdonald/023013-7030.1-e.html|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Constitutional Achievements|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/primeministers/h4-2221-e.html|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref>
*''[[Antiquities of the Jews|De antiquitate Judaica]]: [[The Jewish War|De bello Judaico]]'' ('[[Antiquities of the Jews]] and the [[The Jewish War|Judean War]]')—the oldest book in the collection—written by 1st-century historian [[Josephus|Flavius Josephus]] and printed in 1470;<ref>{{cite web|title=Jacob M. Lowy Collection|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lowy-collection/index-e.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604071608/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lowy-collection/index-e.html|archive-date=June 4, 2013|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Israeli Foreign Minister Views Rare Book Collection During Visit to Library and Archives Canada|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/whats-new/013-286-e.html|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Josephus|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/6/6/s6-215-e.html|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref>
*the chair used by world-renowned pianist [[Glenn Gould]] while he played and recorded.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Glenn Gould Archive|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/glenngould/028010-1050.02-e.html|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=LAC}}</ref>

=== Digitization ===
LAC also houses more than a [[petabyte]] of [[digital content]].<ref name="Collection">{{cite web|title=LAC at a glance – About Us|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/012/012-514-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 29, 2013|quote=The LAC collection... 20 million books, periodicals, newspapers, microfilms, literary texts and government publications; 167,000 linear metres of government and private textual records; 3 million architectural drawings, maps and plans; 24 million photographs; 350,000 hours of film; 425,000 pieces of art, including paintings, drawings, watercolours, posters, prints, medals and caricatures; 547,000 musical items; more than a billion megabytes of digital content}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Overview – About the Collection|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collection/003-300-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=May 29, 2013}}</ref> Some of this content is available [[Online and offline|online]], primarily books, Canadian theses, and census material—equating to around 5 thousand [[TeraByte|terabytes]] of information in electronic format.<ref name="Electronic">{{cite web|title=Electronic Collection|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/electroniccollection/index-e.html|publisher=LAC|access-date=June 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Canada|first=Library and Archives|date=2013-08-30|title=About the Collection|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/about-collection/Pages/about.aspx|access-date=2021-05-08|website=www.bac-lac.gc.ca}}</ref> Many items have not been [[Digitization|digitized]] and are only available in physical form.<ref name="VisitUs" /> As of May 2013, only about 1% of the collection had been digitized, representing "about 25 million of the more popular and most fragile items."<ref>{{cite news|title=Library and archives interlibrary loans soon eliminated|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/library-and-archives-interlibrary-loans-soon-eliminated-1.1295526|access-date=June 2, 2013|newspaper=CBC News|date=Nov 7, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Hall">{{cite news|last=Hall|first=Joseph|title=Historical letters not wanted at Library and Archives Canada, critics say|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2013/03/10/historical_letters_not_wanted_at_library_and_archives_canada_critics_say.html|access-date=May 26, 2013|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=March 10, 2013}}</ref><ref name="CobbMay3">{{cite news|last=Cobb|first=Chris|title=Record breaking|url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/Record+breaking/8335572/story.html|access-date=June 2, 2013|newspaper=Ottawa Citizen|date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530100159/http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Record+breaking/8335572/story.html|archive-date=May 30, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>