Variant of NAICS 1997 - Labour Force Survey (LFS) Industries

• 7 - Services-Producing Sector
• 15 - Information, Culture and Recreation
• 51 - Information and Cultural Industries
• 514 - Information Services and Data Processing Services
• 5141 - Information Services
• 51412 - Libraries and Archives

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