North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Canada 2012

• 51 - Information and cultural industries
• 519 - Other information services
• 5191 - Other information services
• 51912 - Libraries and archives

519121 - Libraries^CAN

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.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • bookmobiles
  • libraries (e.g., reference, lending, public)
  • libraries (except motion picture and video tape stock footage)

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • retailing books (See 451310 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)