ARCHIVED - The Council on Access to Information for Print-Disabled Canadians

Some National Library of Canada Services

Presented by Huguette Lussier-Tremblay

National Library of Canada Website
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html

• About the library: to hear about our collections, including the Electronic collection that you can search by title or subject; to have a virtual tour
• Services: to reach services for educators, researchers, libraries (check here for Union Catalogue and Interlibrary Loan services), and publishers
• Digital Library of Canada: to access websites, finding aids, research tools related to Music, History and Literature at the National Library
• Canadian Information by Subject: to find Canadian websites (subjects listed in alphabetical order or in a structured arrangement like Dewey)

AMICUS

• Important resource developed by the National Library of Canada (NLC) for libraries, researchers, and the public
• Free service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• 24,000,000 records: 16,000,000 from the Union Catalogue with the holdings of 1,300 Canadian libraries, 2,000,000 records from the National Library, and some records without holdings
• Useful for searching, information verification, reference, interlibrary loan, cataloguing information
• Records describe monographs, periodicals, newspapers, theses, government publications, maps, documents in print, microforms, or available electronically, and works in special formats such as Braille, large print, talking books, described videos, captioned videos for persons who are print or hearing-impaired
• Some records are for alternate formats in progress, also referred to as Canadian Works in Progress (CANWIP) / Registre des ouvrages canadiens en préparation (ROCEP)
• Some records do not provide holdings: those for alternate formats, records catalogued before publication, and some Library of Congress records
• Holdings of libraries and loan policies can be checked before a decision is made to borrow from a library
• Canadian libraries can send interlibrary loan requests via AMICUS
• AMICUS allows basic and advanced searching
• Without password:
  Search and display full records
  Save results and email them to create bibliographies
  Find interlibrary loan information (locations and loan policies) that can be used by the library requesting materials on your behalf
• With password:
  In addition to the above:
  Display and download in MARC format
  Personalize AMICUS
  Send an interlibrary loan request via AMICUS (only for Canadian libraries)
  Perform command searching
• Support service:
  Advice in searching
  Help in personalizing AMICUS: to help you benefit from the options the most likely to meet your needs

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