Editing Library and Archives Canada (section)

=== 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>