The following bibliographic resources are accessible to to Canadian museums which are members of CHIN and to others who have paid a subscription. Referenced material includes over 25,000 journals, journal articles, books, and reports published from 1900 to the present. The database will be expanded to include material from other international repositories of museological literature.
Data are mainly in English and French, but subject key word fields contain data in both languages.
Two of the databases, MCIN and ACIN, are no longer current, and have been removed from this site. CIN's objective is to facilitate the retrieval and exchange of information concerning conservation and restoration of cultural property. BCIN s contributing partners have brought together over 172,000 bibliographic records on conservation. A great deal of conservation literature is referenced, including the Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles, books and audiovisual and unpublished materials. The database also includes previously unavailable material from private sources, as well as new information gathered by a worldwide network of contributors.