important survey: Fw: Accessible Archives

[Richard Plant]

Hello all:

I have just received this from HSSFC. If we do not express our views, the
impression is that we do not need (or have) a voice. The N A has a lot of
theatre material.

Richard Plant

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fedcan" <fedcan at hssfc.ca>
To: <@hssfc.ca>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 2:36 PM
Subject: Accessible Archives


> We would ask that you post this message on your internal email lists and
> also advise your colleagues.  We will also be posting the link under
What's
> New on our web site.
>
> Accessible Archives
>
> The National Archives of Canada acquires and preserves public and private
> documents of permanent national interest in order to make them accessible.
> Its vast collections include 21 million photographs;
> 2 million maps and architectural plans; 142 000 linear metres of textual
> documents; films, videos and sound recordings comprising over 337 000
hours
> of listening  and viewing; 330 000 works of art; 3 million gigabytes of
> electronic records; as well as 800 000 philatelic items; and a variety of
> other records.
>
> The National Archives of Canada has initiated a new project - Accessible
> Archives - which looks ahead to the services we will be offering by 2008.
> Our objective is to serve Canadians better by making the holdings of the
> National Archives more accessible to them.  We ask the public we serve to
> help us achieve this goal by taking a few minutes to respond to our online
> questionnaire, available at : http://accessible.archives.ca/
>
> We also invite comments on a draft Vision for Access, available at the
same
> URL.
>
> Thank you.
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