 
Library and Archives Canada offers a variety of services and programs for members of diverse cultural communities. These services include specialized reference assistance, digital projects, access to images that reflect ethnic history, databases of writers, artists, and immigration records, and specialized help in genealogical searches. LAC aims to provide all Canadians access to their history, which includes multilingual book, photograph, and newspaper collections. Also available are finding aids in the Archives geared toward immigration records.
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A World of Information: Creating Multicultural Collections and Programs in Canadian Public Libraries. Edited by Joanne Godin. Ottawa 1994.
Multilingual/Multicultural Collections And Services: A Draft Proposal (EC 01:29) Working Group on Collection Policies. Pierre Gamache, Libby Martin and Maryna Nowosielski. September 19, 2001.
C.D. Hoy: Portraits from the Frontier: Review of the Ottawa Film Premiere Tuesday May 20, 2003 Library and Archives Canada.
Judith Saltman and Gale Edwards, of the University of British Columbia have generously agreed to share their paper “Looking at ourselves, Looking at others: Multiculturalism in Canadian children's picture books in English” that was presented to the History of the Book in Canada’s Open Conference for Volume III (1918-2000).
www.hbic.library.utoronto.ca/vol3edwardssaltman_en.htm
Conference paper given June 28, 2003 by Carolyn Kim at "The Fun of Reading: International Forum on Canadian Children's Literature".
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