Programs that are responsible for identifying, appraising, accessioning, preserving, arranging, describing and providing reference services to the records of public or private institutions and/or the personal papers of individuals or families which are being kept permanently for the historical value which they potentially offer.

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Libraries or other organizations that maintain resource centres or special collections of materials which relate to the culture and history of specific ethnocultural groups. Multicultural collections often contain newspapers and magazines that have been published by the community, records and tapes of music, children's books and other materials that may be of interest to community residents. Other holdings may include government publications, official records, oral histories, photographs, audio recordings and audio-visual presentations (cassettes, CDs, videos, 16-mm films), online databases and dissertations.

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Libraries or other organizations that are depositories for federal, provincial or other government publications which are made available to community residents on a loan basis.

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