Publications

Most Library and Archives Canada (LAC) publications are available as either Web pages or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files. To view PDF documents, you must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer (downloadable free of charge).

Corporate management and reporting

• Departmental Performance Reports (DPR)
• Departmental Plan (formely known as Reports on Plans and Priorities-RPP)

Financial reports and statements

• Financial Statements
• Quarterly Financial Reports

Business reports and plans

• 2016-2019 Three-Year Plan PDF 1.31 MB
• Annual reports
• Audits and Evaluations
• Business Plans
• Info Source – Sources of Federal Government and Employee Information at Library and Archives Canada

Corporate strategies

• Building a Canadian National Heritage Digitization Strategy
• Digital strategy 2015 and beyond 
• Information Management Strategy to 2020
• International Relations Strategy 2016-2019 [PDF 104 KB]
• LAC 2016-2019 Acquisition Strategy PDF 534 KB
• LAC Strategy for Services to the Public
• LAC Audiovisual Migration Strategy
• LAC Strategic Policy Suites

Library and Archives Canada publications

• Blog of Library and Archives Canada
• Governance and Recordkeeping Around the World Newsletter
• E-book: "Lingua Franca: A Common Language for Conservators of Photographic Materials"
• Signatures: The Magazine of Library and Archives Canada
• Thematic guides
• Values and Ethics, code of conduct

Public Opinion Research Reports

Library and Archives Canada is responsible for posting separate English and French final reports and executive summaries for contracted public opinion research on the Public Opinion Research Reports website.

Archived publications

Older publications can be found in our Government of Canada Web Archive site and in the Electronic Collection.

Government of Canada publications

Visit Government of Canada Publications for publications produced by us and other government organizations.

Joint publications

National, Provincial and Territorial Archivists Conference (NPTAC)

The following documents have been produced by this organization, of which LAC is a member.

• Statement of Guiding Principles for Identifying 'Best-Fit' Repositories for Private-Sector Archival Records [Bilingual PDF 149 KB]
• Recommendations on Preservation Files for Use in the Digitization of Analog and Video Recordings [PDF 290 KB]

Order a publication

To order printed copies of any publication, please contact the Liaison Centre.