Staff Writer Researchers are just a click away from 1.2 million bibliographic and authority records. The original Canadiana was, of course, in traditional print form . Some 28 years later, the Library added a microfiche version, while machine-readable records were first produced in 1976. By 1991, the Library was no longer publishing a regular paper version of Canadiana , though the microfiche version was still produced.
New technologies provide additional avenues for information.
In recent years, the National Library has become more committed to electronic publishing, although print versions of most publications are provided on request. The goal has always been to make information accessible to all. And that is just what Canadiana on CD-ROM will do. Between 1991 and 1996, the Library conducted surveys that pointed to the increasing use of CD-ROM technology in libraries across the country. The time was right to publish a CD-ROM version of the national bibliography and to include Canadiana records created outside the National Library of Canada.