1In April, 1995, the Canadian Archives transferred its historical publications to the National Pavilion. Among the materials transferred with the approval of the Parliament, 30,000 pieces are not in the National Library, and 6,543,800 pieces belong to the increased copies. These materials have greatly enriched the rare books in the National Pavilion. However, due to the substantial reduction of funds, the National Pavilion had to reduce the purchase of early Canadian publications; The subscription of overseas periodicals has decreased by 1/3, and the purchase of overseas monographs has also decreased year by year. Canadians can't buy copies of overseas publications, which means that no copies enter circulation. In July 2000, a special group was set up to formulate a new collection policy to ensure that the National Pavilion is in a leading position in collecting domestic publications.
In 2000, the collection of foreign government publications was reviewed. In addition to the comprehensive collection of government publications of the United States, Britain and France, it is also necessary to collect government publications of other countries related to Canada's development and research. Although it is still exchanged with foreign exchange libraries, the materials to be eliminated by some national libraries should be transferred to designated research libraries for preservation to ensure the long-term use of Canadian researchers. Change the CD format of literary manuscripts for researchers to use.
In addition, the National Pavilion is worried that the use of electronic information will be related to the future, so it will mainstream digital information, formulate appropriate standards and expand the collection of electronic publications. As 1998 has formulated policies and guidelines for online electronic publications, as of August 2000, the National Pavilion has 3 168 kinds of electronic publications-2 153 kinds of monographs, and continuous publications 10 15 kinds, with an average of 400 kinds of electronic publications every month.