Canadian Library Yearbook 1985/Annuaire des bibliotheques canadiennes

Dean Tudor is a journalism professor at the Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute and founding editor of the CBRA.

This work, formerly known as the Canadian Library Handbook, was first issued in 1979/80. Now it is apparently to be an annual, with new material on Canadian library associations and periodicals. It was previously published by the National Library of Canada, but declining budgets chopped it from the NLC’s programs. The Yearbook also contains library statistics that were collected by Statistics Canada but were not to be published by that group (cuts again). S.D. Neil’s annual reviews of library trends in Canada had been published by another printer, but the articles have now been subsumed in this new work.

Unique material here includes a survey of librarians’ and library technicians’ salaries (gleaned mainly from articles in other library science publications), a library services directory of Canadian book wholesalers and Canadian magazine subscription agents, and a regional breakdown of library trends in Canada.

The main body here, though, continues to be the directory of 5,500 public, government, university and college, and special libraries, giving for each the chief librarian’s name, address, phone number, and subject coverage (but nothing on content and services). Other useful data includes material on regional library systems and archives in Canada, as well as information about Canadian library education. Good value.