Description: "The Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries originated as one of two projects of the National Plan for Collections Inventories which had been endorsed by the National Library Advisory Board in 1984.
Originally published in 1992, the Directory was encoded by the University of Saskatchewan Library in 1995 in order to be mounted on the WWW as part of Industry Canada's SchoolNet Digital Collections program. Subsequently, Canadian research libraries agreed that the Directory should be updated and expanded. The National Library has therefore transformed the Directory into an electronic database application for the WWW. It is fully searchable and can be easily updated and expanded. Libraries of all types are encouraged to suggest new entries for the Directory and to keep existing entries up-to-date."