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benefit of present and future generations. This new facility via a team of 12 LAC employees and 12
centre is the world’s largest automated storage moving services employees has officially started
and retrieval archive building and the first Net Zero as of Aug. 2, 2022,” says Nathalie Ethier, Director,
Carbon archival centre in the Americas, and will Gatineau 2 Project.
mean significant strides in digitizing its collection to
achieve greater accessibility. LAC has already started to received client
consultation requests for LAC material that is now
“With full capacity at 900,000 containers, the stored at PSF. “Our recently completed Preservation Photo Credit: Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) celebrated Storage Facility will provide world-class storage
the 200,000th container in November and aims conditions to safeguard LAC’s collections for future
to move over 600K LAC containers into the new generations,” says Ethier. “LAC’s new Preservation
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