Plans and Priorities for the Library

New Digital Projects

The Library is fully automated, powered by Inmagic.  The next step is to publish this catalogue to the RCMI website, when the Library has the funds to purchase the software. 

 The Library also plans to allow many items from the collection, especially those too fragile for casual handling, to be made available on-line in digital form on the RCMI website for research purposes.  The proposal has already been completed.  This project is a joint venture with the RCMI, Phipps and Associates Inc. (Inmagic Library Software) and Internet Archive scanning at the University of Toronto.  When we go ahead with this project, these volumes, such as the Army Lists, would become part of the Library Inmagic database, and could be searched full-text though our website.

  Internet Archive has already made a digital Flip Book for us, the British Army List 1812, as a test.  This virtual book is full-text and searchable and is available for view in the Library or ask the Librarian for the link.  This project can go forward as soon as the funds are in place.  Your donations are both welcome and needed.

  For more information on Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/index.php

Defence Studies Committee

   Also as part of the digital collection, is the Defence Studies Committee's development of The Heritage Papers series, which will publish a number of archival documents in the possession of the Library that have never been published. The first of these is the History of the 6th Canadian LAA Regiment, which is the World War II wartime record of this regiment, which existed only during that war.