highlights of different collections.. radical reference montreal has a virtual reference shelf
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Highlights of different collections.
Radical Reference Montreal has a virtual reference shelf.
http://radrefmtl.wordpress.com/reference-shelf/
As does the main Radical Reference website.
http://radicalreference.info/readyref
Alternative resources online and in Montreal organized by subject:
Alternative libraries, infoshops, and zines Crime and legal topics Education Government Health Human Rights Immigration Labour .... and more!
Radical Reference Montreal Virtual Reference Shelf
Alternative Libraries Database.
Alternative Libraries Database
The eight organizations working on the library database:
2110 Centre QPIRG Concordia QPIRG McGill The Union for Gender Empowerment DIRA GRIP UQAM COCo SACOMSS
www.alternativelibraries.org
Alternative Libraries Database
Currently in the database:
• 2110 Centre• QPIRG Concorida• QPIRG McGill
www.alternativelibraries.org
2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy
2110 rue MacKay1455 de Maisonneuve West, Annex V-01
Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8
514-848-2424 poste7431
www.centre2110.org
QPIRG Concordia
1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, suite 204
514-848-7585
qpirgconcordia.org/librarycirculation/
QPIRG McGill
3647 UniversityMontreal, Quebec
H3A 2B3
514-398-7432
qpirgmcgill.org/library
Union of Gender Empowermentwww.unionforgenderempowerment.wordpress.com
McGill UniversityShatner Building
3480 McTavish Street Montreal, QC, H3A 1X9
514-398-2569
Bibliotheque DIRAwww.bibliothequedira.wordpress.com
2035 boulevard Saint-LaurentMontreal, QC, H2X 2T3
514-843-2018
GRIP UQAMwww.gripuqam.org/
320, rue Ste-Catherine Est, Pavillion J.-A DeSeve,
3ieme etage, LOCAL DS-3159Metro Berri UQAM
514-987-3000 poste 4077
COCowww.coco-net.org
3680, rue Jean-Mance Montreal, QC, H2X 2K5
514-849-5599
SACOMSSwww.sacomss.org
McGill UniversityShatner Building Basement
3480 McTavish, B-27Montreal, QC H3A 1X9
514-398-8500
Other cool community resources.
Legal Information Clinichttp://mlic.mcgill.ca/site.php?lang=en&page=legalclinic#
McGill UniversityShatner Building
3480 McTavish StMontreal, QC, H3A 1X9
Legal Information Question: 514-398-6792
CDEACFwww.cdeacf.ca
110 rue Sainte-Therese, bureau 101Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 1E6
514-876-1180
www.cdecf.ca
Some great online resources.
La Page Noirewww.blogpagenoire.blogspot.com
265 rue Dorchester, Quebec
418-977-1955
The Queer Zine Archive Projectwww.qzap.org
QZAP2935 N. Fratney St.
Milwaukee, WI 53212USA
BAnQ Collections.
BAnQ Collectionshttp://iris.banq.qc.ca/iris.aspx
The Iris Online Catalogue has hundreds of thousands of digitized documents.
Researchers can consult an index a-z of subjects or search the database.
BAnQ Collections
Really amazing resources at BAnQ: Heritage collection
National collection
Archives
Quebec publications. Documents about Quebec published
elsewhere. Books published before 1801. Maps, posters, postcards, stamps. Various other archives.
BAnQ CollectionsHeritage Collection
BAnQ CollectionsDigital Collection
Documentary heritage produced in Quebec since the 17th century.
Printed Handwritten Photographs Sound Recordings ...and more!
BAnQ CollectionsArchives
Archives on variety of subject matters. 9 archive centres in Quebec. Preservation centre in Montreal.
Holds 10 major special collections (posters, geographical maps, postcards, prints, early
books, art reproductions...) Access to over 2,000 reference books. Reading room to access resources.
Montreal Public Libraries
Great resouces for local history and genealogy.
List of Montreal Public Libraries
Jewish Public Librarywww.jewishpubliclibrary.org
75% of the collection is Judaica. Rare books:
Incunanbula Kabbalistic treateis Talmuds Historical tracts
Copious and old clippings from newspapers. Yizkor books.
ATI's
They can be difficult.
They can be expensive.
I have never filed one.
But it is important to remember that this avenue exists.
Filing ATIs
Download an access-to-information form:
www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbsf-fsct/350-57-eng.asp
Find which institutions you want to apply to:
www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/atip-aiprp/apps/coords/index-eng.asp
For a description of program records held by the institutions: http://www.infosource.gc.ca
Understand the info management
Inforsource.gc.ca is a useful directory of government records subject
to ATI laws.
Oral History.
Oral History/Storytelling
Oral HistoryConcordia University1455 Maisonneuve
Montreal, QC, H3G1M8
514-848-2424 poste 5465
http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/index.html
But you can always go out and get your own stories.
Lots of researchers work with the community and document their experiences.
This is often called participatory action research or community-based reasearch.
The wayback machine.
Tracking development of webpages over time
There are many tools that allow you browse backwards through time:
Zoetrope (Adobe) Internet Archive (the wayback machine)
Whois.
Whois
Lookup domain and IP address information: www.allwhois.com whois.net whois.domaintools.com
En francais: www.raynette.fr/services/whois
WhoisSecond Level Domains
Domains that will not work in searches:
www.gouv.qc.ca & www.ndpopposition.ab.ca
An alternative resource is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority:
www.whois.cira.ca/public
Ou
www.cira.ca/fr/re_whois.html
Right of initiative of public consultations.
Public Consultations
Find out first hand about new requests addressed to the city by reviewing the right to initiative portal on the city's website
www.ville.montreal.qc.ca
Examples of current requests:Sharing the existing bike path/forbid electric scooters on
Montreal bike paths:
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=6717,90973576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Sherlock.
Municiple Information (french)
Sherlock: database of municipale information.
http://www11.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sherlock2/servlet/template/sherlock%2CRechSherlock.vm