Membership

The Canadiana mandate is to make the complete body of Canadian documentary heritage (including books, periodicals, archival photographs, images of museum artefacts, film, music, audio and video broadcasts) available online through digitization, preservation and access projects. Canadiana achieves its mandate by organizing collaborative projects and fundraising.

Canadiana is a national not-for-profit, charitable organization with a membership-based governance model.

Our Board includes Canada’s leading memory institutions - Library and Archives Canada, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries - as well as scholars and business leaders.

"Be part of a national movement and have a voice at the table shaping Canada’s future."

Canadiana Guiding Principles

• To promote open content collaboration amongst Canadian memory institutions;
• To offer free access to public domain and public sector content for current and future generations;
• To ensure that copyright and intellectual property are respected;
• To reflect Canadian values, including bilingualism, multiculturalism, inclusiveness and equity;
• To adopt and promote internationally recognized standards and best practices;
• To facilitate preservation and long-term access infrastructures for future generations; and
• To support collaborative research at home and abroad by providing access to digital content.

Join Canadiana

"Of all national assets, archives are the most precious: they are the gift of one generation to another and the extent of our care of them marks the extent of our civilization."
Arthur G. Doughty, Dominion Archivist 1904 –1935

To become a member, review the fee schedule below and complete the registration form

"If we don’t preserve our stories, they will be lost forever. "

Canadiana Membership Benefits

1. Participate in a national movement to:
   • Ensure long-term preservation of Canadian content for future generations;
   • Provide unprecedented access to a growing body of Canadian content to Canadians and citizens of the world;
   • Provide Canadians with the opportunity for self-discovery and understanding of our national identity;
   • Create opportunities for lifelong learning;
   • Unlock the creative economy, innovation and research by making knowledge accessible; and
   • Create jobs in Canada by expanding our digital economy and enhancing our global competiveness.
2. Participate in collaborative projects:
   • Maximize fundraising successes through a common, coordinated approach;
   • Respond to the common challenges of digitization, preservation and access;
   • Reduce costs and convert content faster through shared capacity and services; and
   • Contribute to and benefit from a network of experts in digitization, preservation and access technologies and methodologies.
3. Benefit from the Saveapage.ca public outreach campaign:
   • Co-branding opportunity for memory institutions;
   • Co-branding opportunity for provincial & national associations; and
4. Access a growing collection of web-based tools and services to put your collections online:
   • Digital Collection Builder; and
   • Canadiana Discovery Portal

Canadiana Membership Levels

Canadiana has three membership levels – Sustaining, Full, and Individual.

A Sustaining Member is an association or organization that pays a fixed membership fee through a multi-year agreement. A Sustaining Member shall enjoy the benefits of membership and have the right to vote in the affairs of the Corporation.

A Full Member is an association or organization that has paid the annual membership fee. A Full Member shall enjoy the benefits of membership and have the right to vote in the affairs of the Corporation.

An Individual Member is a person who has paid the individual membership fee. An Individual Member shall enjoy the benefits of membership and may attend and speak at general meetings but shall not have the right to vote in the affairs of the Corporation.

Membership Fee Schedule

Individual Member Fee: $100 per year.

Sustaining and Full Member Fee

This fee scale is based on the annual operating budget of a memory institution, or of its part in a larger institution. Please indicate your budget level on the Registration Form.

The fee schedule presented is in effect from Oct 1, 2009 to Sept 30, 2010.

Annual Operating Budget	Annual Fee		Annual Operating Budget	Annual Fee
less than 10,000	$100		3-5M	$1,500
10-50K	$250		5-7.5M	$1,750
50-100K	$375		7.5-10M	$2,000
100-150K	$500		10-15M	$3,000
150-250K	$650		15-25M	$5,000
250-500K	$800		25-40M	$7,000
500K-1M	$1,000		40-60M	$10,000
1-3M	$1,250		over 60M	$15,000

"Our stories define us; they are part of our national identity."

How to become a member of Canadiana

Complete the registration form and return it by fax or mail.

Fax: 613-235-9752

Canadiana.org
440 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 200
Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1R 7X6

Questions? Contact Membership at 613-235-2628, or e-mail us.

*Canadiana.org operates under the name Canadiana and specializes in digitization of, preservation of and access to documentary heritage.