Library and Public records of Quebec

The Library and Public records of Quebec ( BAnQ or, before January 2006, National library of Quebec ), founded in 1967 by a law of the National Assembly of Quebec, are an government institution intended to preserve and diffuse various documents produced in Quebec.

History

In the beginning, the BNQ contained the collections and the goods of the Saint-Sulpice library located at Montreal, created in 1915 by the Congregation of the Sulpiciens and which belonged to the Gouvernement of the Quebec since 1941.

In 1968 the provincial Payment on the Registration of copyright between into force, which obliges the Québécois editors to deposit with the BNQ two specimens of their printed works, i.e. the book S, the Brochure S, the newspapers, the Magazine S and re-examined, the books of artists and the musical partitions.

In 1992, a payment of the National Assembly widens the deposit with the original prints, with the Affiche S, the reproductions of works of art, the postcards, sound recordings (Long-playing record, Compact disk…), with the Software S, the electronic documents (files Internet, for example) and with the Microédition S.

A catalog in line, Iris , is offered to the public in 1994. It gives access free the whole of the objects contained in the library.

During the year 1997, the project of the Grande Bibliothèque of Quebec (GBQ) is born from the desire to better diffuse the various documents of the BNQ and the central Bibliothèque of Montreal. The GBQ amalgamates with the BNQ in 2001; the new entity preserves the name of National library of Quebec.

This entity continues two distinct mandates: (1) acquisition, conservation and diffusion of the national collection and (2) the acquisition and diffusion of a collection of loan general public.

In May 2004, the Public records of Quebec amalgamate their collections with those of the BNQ. In autumn of the same year, the collections of the central Library of Montreal are also versed with its catalog.

April 30th, 2005, the GBQ opens officially its doors. Its mandate is to diffuse the collections maintained in a state of conservation by the BNQ.

In 2006, the National library of Quebec and the Public records of Quebec amalgamate to become Bibliothèque and Public records of Quebec (BAnQ).

BAnQ acts as representing official French-speaking Agence for the international classification of the book (AFNIL) for the attribution of the numbers ISBN in Quebec and French-speaking Canada.

Missions

à venir (One could say simply that the institution aims at emphasizing the human intellectual patrimony from a Québécois point of view.)

Public records

The Public records of Quebec (ANQ) were created the September 2nd 1920 when Pierre-Georges Roy, author of the Bulletin of the historical research , became the first provincial archivist.

The purpose of this institution is to manage the historical documents, in particular the public records, of the Québécois State and to be used as documentation for the Histoire of Quebec. It functions according to the law on the files of 1983.

It is attached to the ministry for the Culture and the Communications since 1961. Before 1963, it was called Archives of the province of Quebec . The current name is adopted in 1971.

The ANQ have several regional centres: Montreal, Quebec, Low-Saint-Laurent, Estrie, Three-Rivers, Hull, Rimouski, Seven-Islands.

The center montréalais is in the old establishment of the High commercial studies on the street Viger. The center of Quebec east in the Louis-Jacques-Castault house with the University Laval.

In 2001, Sylvie Lemieux becomes the first woman to direct the files.

In 2006, the National library of Quebec and the Public records of Quebec amalgamate together to become Bibliothèque and Public records of Quebec (BAnQ).

Statistics on the files

44,7 km of written files
13.160.000 photographs or iconographies
40.000 hours of recordings
12.000 reels of microfilms

See too

Library and Archives Canada
Grande Bibliothèque of Quebec
ISBN

External bond

Library and Public records of Historical Quebec

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