Page 4 - Library and Archives Canada (LAC) New Preservation Centre (Gatineau 2)

Ground-breaking ceremony for Gatineau 2 - Photo courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.

have standards that you need to follow to make preservation facility will be huge, coming in at a
sure that collections are kept for a certain number storage space capacity of 21,250 cubic metres, or

of years, and for us, the goal is 500 years," Ethier the equivalent of the contents of about 8.5 Olympic

says. "We wanted this building to be able to store swimming pools.
collections in a very strict environment to support

the preservation goal of the collection." "It will be the world's largest preservation facility

or archival facility with an Automated Storage and
NEW PRESERVATION Retrieval System. The largest in the world," Ethier

FACILITY'S KEY FEATURES says. "We're very proud of it."

The new facility will come with an Automatic The Library and Archives Canada's new facility will

Storage and Retrieval System (or ASRS), which also create a federal-government precedent as a
Ethier describes as similar to the mobile robots net-zero carbon facility, following their new “green

Amazon uses in their warehouse facilities. Further, strategy. "We've asked the private partner (PPG)

like Amazon, the federal government's new to basically build a mega fridge with very strict,

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