North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) 1997

51412 - Libraries and Archives

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing library or archive services. These establishments maintain collections of documents (such as books, journals, newspapers and music) and facilitate the use of such documents (regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as are required to meet the informational, research, educational or recreational needs of their users. They may also acquire, research, store, and make accessible to the public, original historical documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audio-visual material and other archival materials of historical interest. Cinematheques, videotheques and other film and video archives, whose primary purpose is the preservation of archival audio-visual material, are included. All or portions of these collections may be accessible electronically.

• Exclusion(s):

  • film libraries that own rights to films and license the exhibition of these films (See 51212 Motion Picture and Video Distribution)
  • providing motion picture and video stock footage (via libraries) to producers, the media, multimedia and advertising industries (See 51219 Post-Production and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries)

514121 - Libraries

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in maintaining collections and facilitating the use of such documents (regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as are required to meet the informational, research, educational or recreational needs of their users.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • retailing books (See 451210 Book Stores and News Dealers)
  • providing motion picture and video stock footage (via libraries) to producers, the media, multimedia and advertising industries (See 512190 Post-Production and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries)

• Example Activities:

  • Bookmobiles
  • Circulating libraries
  • Lending libraries
  • Libraries (except motion picture and video tape stock footage)
  • Public libraries
  • Reference libraries

514122 - Archives

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in acquiring, researching, storing, and making accessible to the public, original historical documents, photographs, maps, audio or audio-visual material, and other archival materials of historical interest. Cinematheques, videotheques, and other film and video archives whose primary purpose is the preservation of archival audio-visual material, are included.

• Exclusion(s):

  Establishments primarily engaged in:

  • providing motion picture and video stock footage (via libraries) to producers, the media, multimedia and advertising industries (See 512190 Post-Production and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries)

• Example Activities:

  • Archives
  • Centres for documentation (i.e., archives)
  • Cinematheques (film library)
  • Film archives
  • Motion picture film libraries, archives
  • Music archives
  • Photographic libraries, archives
  • Video archives
  • Videotheques