A statistician responsible for the library surveys of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics soon becomes aware of the problems of public library finance. In addition to the financial data contained in published reports, more detailed information on public library finance is frequently requested, and put to many uses by librarians, trustees, and government officials. Individual libraries use financial data from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics in their annual reports, for comparative purposes, to measure the growth of their respective libraries in relation to public library growth in Canada as a whole. Provincial public library agencies use the information for comparisons with developments in other provinces.

L'homme moderne n'est vraiment plus seul. La pensée diffusée sous toutes les formes que nous observons à l'heure actuelle, pénètre les continents avec une rapidité remarquable. La venue de l'automatisation procure des heures de loisir plus considérables. On cherche à se distraire et à s'instruire en utilisant les principaux instruments de culture qui sont à la portée de tous, pour la formation de l'intelligence et du coeur. [...]

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For the purpose of this thesis, the writer's own definition of “subject analysis” is “The art of determining and recording the subject matter of a publication in such a way that the publication will be readily brought to the attention of a reader interested in the same subject”. “Aeronautical libraries” will be considered u those serving organizations that manufacture or operate airplanes, that do research on airplanes or that legislate on matters involving airplanes. This thesis is a study of the tools and techniques of subject analysis available to the aeronautical librarian. These tools and techniques fall into the following categories: the various formats of catalogues, lists of subject headings, classification schemes, printed catalogue cards, indexes.

This study of the McGill Medical Library covers the period from its beginning as a small collection in the Montreal Medical Institution to the coming of the Osler Library to McGill University just over a century later. It was through the Medical Faculty that McGill College became established, and, as an important and continuous part of that Faculty, the Library, though not unique, certainly deserves historical treatment.

Periodicals form an important part of the body of agricultural literature. And in the pages of Canadian periodicals much information may be gained on the development and the state of one of the country's major industries. There is no known publication which records, exclusively, agricultural periodicals published in Canada from the past down to the present. The primary purpose of this study is to furnish a tool which will survey and list Canadian agricultural periodicals. Farming as a regular occupation in Canada began with Louis Hébert in the early part of the seventeenth century on land which is now a part of Quebec City.

<p> In the United States, archival institutions have prioritized the preservation of commercial and Hollywood cinema overlooking small-scale media production by non-professionals and independent media artists. Media arts centers, however, have played a pivotal role in the continued access, use, and preservation of materials produced by the communities that they serve. These non-profit media collectives were imagined as a distributed network of organizations supporting the production, exhibition and study of media; serving as information centers about media resources; and supporting regional preservation efforts. However, media arts centers have remained over-looked and unexplored by the archival field. This dissertation seeks to shift this balance, including these artist-run organizations as part of the network of archives and collecting institutions preserving independent media.</p><p> Using case study methodologies this study investigated the practices at three media arts centers, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Paper Tiger Television, and the Termite Television Collective, seeking to understand the role of these organizations in the collection and preservation of independent media and the development of archival practices in non-profit media organizations. The study places each of these organizations in the wider history of media arts center movement in the United States and looks broadly at the development of archives and archival practices within these organizations. Framing media arts centers as maker-spaces and archival spaces, this dissertation argues for a critique of professional archival practices and a redefinition of the standards for preservation of audiovisual materials.</p>

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