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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Founded in 1880, the Library of the National Gallery of Canada has been an Innovative partner since 1991. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada is a visual arts museum of international stature and holds its collection of art in trust for all Canadians. The mandate of the National Gallery, as set out in the 1990 Museums Act is: “to develop, maintain, and make known, throughout Canada and internationally, a national collection of works of art, historic and contemporary, with special but not exclusive reference to Canada; and to further knowledge, understanding and enjoyment of art in general among all Canadians.” The Library of the National Gallery of Canada houses the most extensive collection of visual arts literature in Canada. The Canadiana collections aim at comprehensiveness; other notable strengths are the history of the Western tradition from the late Middle Ages to the present, with particular emphasis on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts of Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, and the history and technology of photography. “The library’s catalog has been available on the Web since 2000 and is a significant element of the Gallery’s Web site. Use of the catalog has climbed steadily since implementation, and represents one of several ways in which the library can serve the public outside the physical confines of the Gallery, across Canada, and indeed, internationally,” said Jonathan Franklin, Head of Collections and Database Management at the National Gallery of Canada Library. Also included in the library’s Web OPAC are archival records, among which are records for materials relating to all the Gallery’s exhibitions dating back to its inception. Over the years, the library's Innovative system has proven remarkably robust, involving very little down-time--during a two-month labor dispute at the Gallery last summer, the Web OPAC carried on fielding catalog inquiries from the public while many other library functions were suspended.
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