Author: Manitoba Legislative Library

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-10-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781391487861

Excerpt from Annual Report of the Legislative Library and Provincial Archives, 1979 The Legislative Library is able to look back on 1979 as a year of satisfying achievement. The Library's main statutory obligation for over a hundred years has been the provision of reference and research services to members of the Legislative Assembly, to the personnel of government departments and agencies, and to special committees, commissions of inquiry and task forces appointed by the government from time to time. The Library's facilities are also used by the general public, particularly by the academic community, and by researchers, students, business, and local historians. Service is given at two locations. The bulk of the Library's collections is housed in the Manitoba Archives Building, but a basic reference collection is kept in the Legislative Reading Room in the Legislative Building, where members may also consult periodicals, government publications and local newspapers. Materials and information pass back and forth between these two locations and other government areas by mail, courier, pneumatic tube and telephone. The Library's collections must therefore be a specialized mixture of government publications, periodicals, newspapers and books in the fields of history, public administration, political science, economics and social affairs, with an emphasis on Manitoba and Western Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.