- Ādisōke June 2026 Update
Progress on this joint LAC-City of Ottawa project, managed by the City, was reported to Ottawa City Council in June. The project is over budget, behind timeline, with no firm date for opening.
- LAC’s partnership with Internet Archive Canada
In its 2024–25 Departmental Results Report, LAC reported that by March 2025 the initiative had digitized more than 14,000 publications, producing 2.8 million images. LAC updated this figure last November, reporting that as of October 2025, 20,254 publications had been digitized, generating 4,320,900 images.
However, a recent query to Internet Archive Canada found only 851 items from the Library and Archives collection publicly available — just four of which have been added since 2016. A further 27,503 items are currently in process. - The Xenotext
LAC announced the addition of works by Canadian poet and innovator Christian Bök. The donation includes The Xenotext, “a landmark poetic work consisting of two sonnets encoded within the DNA of a living organism, the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.” The organism itself is stored at the Canadian Museum of Nature. - Library and Archives Canada’s Intellectual Freedom Statement
Recently posted “Library and Archives Canada (LAC) supports intellectual freedom, the human right to seek information, learn, and share ideas without barriers.LAC upholds intellectual freedom by:- Building national collections that reflect diverse voices
- Making our collections available to all
- Showcasing stories through our programming, exhibitions, and online content
- Creating space for the exchange of ideas
- Supporting discussions on intellectual freedom.”
LAC invites questions. I have asked how the organization’s performance on the five items is to be measured and reported.