Contents

• Message from the National Librarian


• Fifty Years of Service to Canadian Libraries


• The Canadian Library Association and the Canadian Bibliographic Centre


• The 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Bibliographic Centre

Services: Yesterday and Today

• Reflections on the Union Catalogue


• MARA Loading: Another Record Year


• Canada's National Bibliography


• Exposed! Fifty Years of Preservation Microfilming


• Canadian Theses


• (Nearly) 50 Years of Interlibrary Loans


• A Tradition of Reference Publishing


• A Library Without Books... Acquisitions, 1950-1953

From Our Special Collections

• "First-ever World Poetry Day..."


• "Hope and error, toil and bliss...": The Canadain Poetry Archive


• The Merrilees Transportation Collection

The Library Community

• Workshops on Z39.50 and ILL Standards


• Metadata Training


• Consultation on Online Publications

Erratum

• March/April Issue

Did You Know...

• ...that the National Library has recently added an updated pathfinder for doing genealogical research...


• Memorable Canadians

AMICUS

• Training Schedule