Canadian Librarianship - Part 1


Canada Job Futures: Librarians, Archivists, Conservators and Curators - Thinking of librarianship as a career? Want to know what the future holds? According to this site from Human Resources Development Canada, while the chances of finding work as a librarian in the current Canadian climate are "Fair", "over the next five years, the outlook is expected to improve to "Good", as a very high retirement rate in these occupations is expected to increase the number of job openings more rapidly than the number of qualified job seekers". Covers education, training, salaries, unemployment rate, and other information of interest to Canadian job seekers or those considering librarianship in Canada.

A Canadian Research Guide
A research guide for librarians, students, or anyone interested in finding out about Canada.

Starting Places

Canadian Encyclopedia - This is the full-text of the print version. Provides succinct articles, multimedia features, interviews, photos, and links to other resources of interest on many Canadian personalities and topics. Recent feature articles on the home page include The 100 Greatest Events in Canadian History and Feature: Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Canadian Information by Subject - From the National Library of Canada, a browsable subject tree in Dewey Decimal or alphabetical order. Also searchable by keyword in title of resource. The library science/information science section (Dewey 020) of the subject guide contained 163 links at last view.

Canadian Studies: A Guide to the Sources - An excellent place to start on your quest for knowledge about Canada. I'm particularly fond of the sections on The Canadian-American Entente, the Canadian Literary Canon, and Exploring Canada's Past. The authors are John D. Blackwell and Laurie C.C. Stanley-Blackwell of St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Don't miss this site.

Canada.com - A Yahoo!-like portal of Canadian information, Canada.com is a search engine as well as a Web subject directory. The search engine allows you to search for only Canadian (.ca) sites, the directory connects you with Canadian content on a variety of topics, provides headlines and news stories, and at the bottom of the page there are links to major Canadian newspapers. Even provides free @canada.com email addresses.

CIA World Fact Book - Canada - Find out about the people, government, geography, economy, transportation, communications, and military of Canada at this site. Great for those wanting an overview of the country and students doing country

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