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Who's Eligible to Participate ?
Full depository status is granted to Canadian
libraries that are nominated and approved by a Committee consisting
of representatives of the National Library and
the Depository Services Program. This status is granted as either
English, or French, or bilingual, depending on the clientele of the
library in question. Full Depository Libraries automatically
receive a shipment of all publications listed in the
Weekly Checklist of Canadian government publications for that week.
There are forty-eight full depositories in Canada and one each in England,
Germany, Japan and the United States.
All other depositories are selective. Selective
depository libraries use the Weekly Checklist
to choose those items they are entitled to order.
Selective depository status is granted to Canadian public libraries and libraries of Canadian educational
institutions which are open to the general public or
clientele at least twenty hours per week and have at least
one full-time employee.
Further:
- Public libraries must be in a town or city with a population of
at least 2,000
- University libraries must serve a population of at least 1,500
teaching staff and full and part-time students
- Community college or cegeps must serve a population of at least
1,000 teaching staff and full and part time students.
Additional categories of persons and institutions entitled to
receive depository status are:
- the Governor General
- Lieutenant Governors of the provinces
- Senators and Members of Parliament
- the National Library of Canada and Library of Parliament
- the central library of departments of the government of Canada and research
bureaus of federal political parties officially recognized by the House of
Commons
- provincial and legislative libraries of provincial legislatures
- the designated resource library in each provincially recognized library
region
- municipal public libraries of Canada
- foreign libraries, as recommended jointly by the National Library and the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
- libraries of foreign legislatures and parliaments, and other libraries,
exclusively for parliamentary papers, as recommended by the Parliamentary
Librarian
- libraries of Canadian educational institutions above the secondary school
level
- the Press Gallery of the House of Commons (Ottawa), daily newspapers, selected
weeklies, and selected privately-owned radio and television stations
- educational, social or political organizations of international character,
or other public institutions in foreign countries, as may be recommended jointly
by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
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