Talk:Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

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Did you know... that Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, the national library of Québec, and the public library of the city of Montréal, will share a facility beginning in 2005?

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No reason for the merge as there is no duplication (2005)

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Why the merge? The Grande Bibliothèque is the biggest achievement of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. The City of New York is the biggest city in the State of New York. Should we also merge New York and New York State ?

On top of that, both articles are already quite long. Usually, we split articles so that they don't become too long.

-- Mathieugp

Agreed! The BNQ has several activities outside the Grande Bibliothèque. For instance, those scholars or amateur historians (or pro historians) and others who wish to have access to the special collections or to the manuscript series held by the BNQ must go to a separate building elsewhere in Montreal, the "Centre de conservation" on Holt street, further East. Publishers doing legal deposit also deal with the BNQ installations at Holt street. --AlainV 04:31, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Agree with the foregoing. The GBQ is simply a facility run by the BNQ. - Montréalais

I agree too and I'm going to remove the notice. 82.35.34.11 17:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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NAME CHANGE

As per the name change, i'm going to try to rename this article Bibliothèque et Archives nationale du Québec and make this page redirect to the new name... All the signs have been changed at the downtown location for a while now so I assume no one will be offended. Abeneal 20:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge suggestion: May 15, 2007

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It was suggested that Grande Bibliothèque du Québec article be merged into Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

It seems that a merge was suggested in 2005, when the comment was made that

"[...] the Grande Bibliothèque [now Grande Bibliothèque du Québec] is the biggest achievement of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec [now Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec]. The City of New York is the biggest city in the State of New York. Should we also merge New York and New York State?

"On top of that, both articles are already quite long. Usually, we split articles so that they don't become too long."

I see no reason why the decision made at that time, not to merge, should change. — Grstain | Talk 20:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. BAnQ is a government department; the GBQ is a library facility, located in Montreal, and administered by BAnQ. The BAnQ has other facilities besides the GBQ. - Montréalais 03:28, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Given the above, I will remove the merge tag. — Grstain | Talk 18:48, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Collection

The claim..

"The library's collection consists mainly of legal deposit copies and includes all works printed in Quebec, concerning Quebec, or written or contributed to by an author from Quebec"

... is backed up by this source which refers only to the ongoing development of the collection. More than half of the current collection is old books from the former Montreal City LIbrary, as you can read here;

At the new location, BAnQ's collections - including 340,000 books - were considerably enriched by the approximately 450,000 books, and the journal and magazine collection, of the Bibliotheque centrale de Montréal and by 475,000 new acquisitions, all of which form the base of the universal lending and reference collection.

Less than half the current collection is of the "legal deposit" variety. Hairhorn (talk) 19:26, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I see. So why not write something like that then? Because to simply write...

The library's collection includes legal deposit copies of all works printed in Quebec, concerning Quebec, or written or contributed to by an author from Quebec?

...is rather poor. Especially alone under its own section. ;-) What do you think? -- Mathieugp (talk) 04:57, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that it's awkward all by itself, that's why I deleted it outright the first time around, I would be happy to see it gone. Whatever happens, awkward trumps inacurrate every time. Feel free to tinker with it. Cheers. Hairhorn (talk) 17:05, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]