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The Library was established in 1991, shortly after the creation of the Canadian
Space Agency and is named after the first president
of the Canadian Space Agency.
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Opening Hours
Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Members of the public must make an appointment.
Contact information
John H. Chapman Space Centre
6767 route de l'Aéroport
Saint-Hubert, QC J3Y 8Y9
Room: 2N-103
Library tel.: (450) 926-4906
Video Library tel.: (450) 926-4907
Fax: (450) 926-4974
E-mail: biblio@space.gc.ca
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Our goals are
- to develop a specialized collection that supports the work of the scientists, researchers, engineers and administrators within the Canadian Space
Agency
- to provide access to information products and
services
The Larkin Kerwin Library is a bridge to the world of information and a partner in research. It provides access to a collection of scientific, technical and general documents as well as access to a great variety of electronic sources of information. The Library is strategically placed
to provide expertise for the retrieval, acquisition, organization and dissemination of information within the Canadian Space Agency.
Loan services
Employees of the Canadian Space Agency, its partners and other
libraries have access to documents in the general
collection.
If you are not employees and would like to borrow a
document from the collection, simply make a request for an interlibrary loan through
your public, school or institutional library (college, university or corporate). Certain documents (periodicals, reference works or controlled-access reports or studies) are not available for interlibrary loan to external patrons.
The document loan period is four weeks and items are renewable,
with the exception of documents that have been reserved by another
patron.
On-site consultation
The library provides a reading room for on-site consultation
as well as audiovisual equipment for videos and microfiche
and computers for access to the automated catalogue and the
Internet. A photocopier is available.
Members of the public must make an appointment to visit
the library.
Document services
The library provides information on scientific, technical, strategic, business or news-related queries.
Library services are available to all patrons regardless of their expertise. Let us provide you with answers to your research needs.
Some collection statistics
The Larkin Kerwin Library offers:
- 10,000 monographs and conference proceedings
- 200 subscriptions to magazines, newsletters and
journals
- 600 reference works
- 60 CD-ROMs
- 1,100 videotapes
- 4,000 technical reports, including studies and reports produced by various organizations,
such as NASA, AIAA, ESA, IEEE, IEE, ASM, AGARD and
SPIE
- 300 contractor reports in the form of studies or reports produced by a branch of the Canadian Space Agency or by outside firms on behalf of the
Agency
- 400 annual reports of the last five years by leading aerospace firms and Canadian Space Agency
partners
- 200 standards from organizations such as the IEEE, ISO,
U.S. Department of Defense (MIL Standards), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and American National Standards Institute
(ANSI)
- Access to over 1,000 external databases with international
coverage
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