Benefits of participation in Library and Archives Canada programmes directed towards publishers

Library and Archives Canada provides a wide range of services that bring together Canadian publishers and recording companies with retailers, libraries, readers, listeners and researchers. Participation in the ISBN, ISSN, ISMN, Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) and Legal Deposit programs assures publishers and recording companies of two valuable benefits: that their works are included in the national collection and preserved for posterity; and that information about their works is included in the national bibliography, Canadiana, and in other sources such as, New Books Service for distribution throughout Canada and around the world.

As part of its commitment to serving the Canadian book trade, Library and Archives Canada also produces the Canadian ISBN Publishers' Directory using data that is collected as part of the process of assigning ISBN to publishers in Canada.