Volume 2, Number 7, November-December 2006

In Focus

The Library and Archives Canada Management Board

Ingrid Parent

Ingrid Parent is Assistant Deputy Minister of the Documentary Heritage Collection Sector at Library and Archives Canada, where she is responsible for the development, the organization and the preservation of the Canadian documentary heritage. She also co-leads the development of the Canadian Digital Information Strategy.

She began her professional career as a cataloguer at the National Library of Canada (NLC), where she also worked on the development of the first Canadian MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloguing) format for the creation and exchange of bibliographic information.

She then worked in the Division du traitement, Université Laval in Quebec City and contributed to the development of the standards and procedures for one of the first cooperative cataloguing programs among Canadian libraries.

Upon her return to the NLC, she was charged with the task of implementing bibliographic systems and national bibliographic services. From 1994 to 2004, appointed Director General of Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services at the NLC, she was responsible for the development of the Library's collections, the organization of information, and standards development.

In addition to her duties at Library and Archives Canada, in 1999 she was elected to the Governing Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and was the IFLA Treasurer until August 2005. She is also currently Chair of the IFLA Section on National Libraries, and a member of the AACR Committee of Principals that oversees the development of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

Ingrid Parent holds degrees in history and library science from the University of British Columbia.

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