Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
British Columbia Union Catalogue
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- BCUC
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1977-1983
History
The British Columbia Union Catalogue (BCUC) was a province-wide bibliographic database of library collections representing both post-secondary and public libraries. First proposed in a series of reports in the early 1970s, it was established in 1977 and funded by the B.C. Ministry of Education. Participating libraries entered their catalogue records into a machine-readable database to generate local catalogues and produce a single union catalogue of all their collections. It was then distributed throughout the province so that users could locate materials anywhere in the province and obtain them through interlibrary loans. BCUC initially included the library collections at UBC, SFU, and UVic and then expanded to local college libraries. Richmond Public Library was the first public library to join the network in 1978. Unfortunately, provincial funding was discontinued in 1983 before the project was completed.
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Functions, occupations and activities
Province-wide bibliographic database of library collections.