National Library News May 2000 Vol. 32, no. 5

Publications Issued by the Canadian Bibliographic Centre

During its short lifespan, May 1, 1950, to December 1952, the Canadian Bilbiographic Centre issued a number of publications. It is interesting to note that in those early days the staff was very much aware of the need for bilingual presentation and content. The Centre’s publications included both current and retrospective bibliographies and were produced in collaboration with organizations that had already been providing some bibliographic coverage of material published in Canada. As the Centre grew and developed, it began assuming an increasingly important role in the bibliographic control of what is now called the Canadian published heritage.

"The Canadian catalogue, 1950". – Bulletin – Ottawa : Canadian Library Association. – Vol. 6, no. 6 (May 1950) – vol. 7, no. 5 (March/mars 1951).

This 1950 catalogue was published in six parts.

Canadian graduate theses in the humanities and social sciences 1921-1946 = Thèses des gradués canadiens dans les humanités et les sciences sociales 1921-1946. – Ottawa : Government of Canada, 1951. – 194 p.

This compilation was a joint enterprise of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and the Canadian Bibliographic Centre.

Canadian index to periodicals and documentary. – Edited by Dorothy B. Chatwin. – Vol. 4. – Ottawa : Canadian Library Association, in cooperation with the Canadian Bibliographic Centre, 1952. – 216 p.

Canadiana. – Ottawa : Canadian Bibliographic Centre, 1951-1952. – v.

Published semi-monthly from January to November 1951 and then monthly. First issue dated January 15, 1951.

A check list of Canadian imprints 1900-1925 = Catalogue d’ouvrages imprimés au Canada, 1900-1925. – Compiled by Dorothea D. Tod and Audrey Cordingley. – Preliminary checking ed. Ottawa : Canadian Bibliographic Centre, Public Archives of Canada, 1950. – 370 leaves.

Source: This article is based on research documented in The Canadian Bibliographic Centre: Preparing the Way for the National Library of Canada, prepared by Carolynn Robertson. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. August, 1999.