Recommend a New Collection Acquisition

Collection Policy Outline

General Purpose:

To meet needs for teaching and undergraduate student research to level of Honours BA. To meet requirements for basic faculty research and professional development. To prepare groundwork resources for graduate-level teaching and research.

Languages:

Priority in order: English, French, Italian, German, other as circumstances warrant.

Geographical Areas:

Worldwide; priority in order: U.S.A., Canada, Europe, Japan, Latin America, other.

Chronological Limits:

Type of Material Collected:

• Particular emphasis on bibliographies, filmographies, resource guides, etc.
• Treatises (historical, critical, theoretical; monographs and anthologies)
• Periodicals (major serials in English and French; special effort to collect and preserve occasional/short-lived journals)
• Biographies, autobiographies, memoirs
• Practical manuals, handbooks
• Films, videotapes, videodiscs, etc. (storage to be the responsibility of the Film Studies Dept.)
• Original scripts, working papers, documents, etc., especially as relating to Canadian cinema.

Subjects and Collecting Levels:

(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)

Areas to be collected at level B/C:

• Canadian Cinema:
• National Film Board archival material (e.g., films, original productions, documents, policy statements, etc.). Acquisition of films is generally financed by the Department or through special grants.
• Material related to pre-NFB and non-governmental film production (e.g., early Canadian film periodicals)
• History, achievements, policy of Canadian Film Development Corporation
• Material related to distribution/exhibition of films in Canada (e.g., annual reports of Famous Players Theatres, Odeon)
• Legal/constitutional material related to Canadian film and popular culture (e.g., CRTC hearings)
• Original scripts, working papers, documents of filmmakers working in Canada.

Areas to be collected at level D:

• American cinema
• European cinema (priority in order: French, Italian, German, Swedish, British, other)
• Japanese cinema
• Documentary/ethnographic cinema
• Works on/by individual filmmakers (producers, directors, cinematographer actors, etc.)
• Film history, film criticism, film theory
• Third World Cinema (e.g.: Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Cuba, Senegal, etc.)
• Experimental/independent cinema
• Film Genres (e.g.: film noir, comedy, musicals, expressionism, etc.)
• Published film scripts
• Studies on individual films

Areas to be collected at level E:

• Silent cinema (institutions, personalities, films, principles, etc.)
• Mass media, broadcasting
• Technology, principles of television (broadcasting, videotape, videodisc, etc.)
• Film and related arts

Policy last revised: 1996/97