Special Libraries in Canada 1985/Bibliotheques specialisees au Canada

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

Two thousand libraries are listed in this tool. The directory section has the usual material: name of the corporate entity, followed by the name of the library, the director, address, phone number, staff complement, and broad subject categories. The three indexes cover subjects (with cross-references), geographic regions (by province), and personal names (with addresses and phone numbers). Some typos here will result in the misfiling of names.

The tool is useful, but mainly for those places outside the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto axis. The Special Libraries Association chapters in those cities have had their own directories for decades, with well-developed subject indexing. Personally, I usually assume that every business, agency, or institute has a library/public relations/archives/information centre area, and I just go ahead and write or phone that business.