Page 7 - Completion of the Library of Archives Canada Preservation Storage Facility

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our 6 most used container sizes,” says Ethier. per cent of records and documents produced by

Government of Canada.

It will also be the world’s largest preservation facility
equipped with a high-tech automated archive LAC is collectively very proud of the Project’s

storage and retrieval system. This means that our consideration of environmental stewardship. “I am
precious national collections will be kept under also very proud that we planned and delivered the

optimal preservation conditions. project while keeping the environment in mind,”

says Ethier. “This is the first facility constructed to
LAC collection documents that are planned to Net Zero Carbon following the publication of the

be stored at PSF include the Canadian Army green government strategy.”

Newsreels, textual documents of past Prime
Ministers of Canada, LAC’s 28 mm film collection “If you think about it, we are building a mega fridge

(One of the largest in the world) and the top 1 to 2 to provide the best environmental conditions

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