Highlights of different collections.

Radical Reference Montreal has a virtual reference shelf.

http://radrefmtl.wordpress.com/reference-shelf/

As does the main Radical Reference website.

http://radicalreference.info/readyref

Alternative resources online and in Montreal organized by subject:

Alternative libraries, infoshops, and zines Crime and legal topics Education Government Health Human Rights Immigration Labour .... and more!

Radical Reference Montreal Virtual Reference Shelf

Alternative Libraries Database.

Alternative Libraries Database

The eight organizations working on the library database:

2110 Centre QPIRG Concordia QPIRG McGill The Union for Gender Empowerment DIRA GRIP UQAM COCo SACOMSS

www.alternativelibraries.org

Alternative Libraries Database

Currently in the database:

• 2110 Centre• QPIRG Concorida• QPIRG McGill

www.alternativelibraries.org

2110 Centre for Gender Advocacy

2110 rue MacKay1455 de Maisonneuve West, Annex V-01

Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8

514-848-2424 poste7431

www.centre2110.org

QPIRG Concordia

1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, suite 204

514-848-7585

qpirgconcordia.org/librarycirculation/

QPIRG McGill

3647 UniversityMontreal, Quebec

H3A 2B3

514-398-7432

qpirgmcgill.org/library

Union of Gender Empowermentwww.unionforgenderempowerment.wordpress.com

McGill UniversityShatner Building

3480 McTavish Street Montreal, QC, H3A 1X9

514-398-2569

unionforgenderempowerment@gmail.com

Bibliotheque DIRAwww.bibliothequedira.wordpress.com

2035 boulevard Saint-LaurentMontreal, QC, H2X 2T3

514-843-2018

dira@riseup.net

GRIP UQAMwww.gripuqam.org/

320, rue Ste-Catherine Est, Pavillion J.-A DeSeve,

3ieme etage, LOCAL DS-3159Metro Berri UQAM

514-987-3000 poste 4077

COCowww.coco-net.org

3680, rue Jean-Mance Montreal, QC, H2X 2K5

514-849-5599

SACOMSSwww.sacomss.org

McGill UniversityShatner Building Basement

3480 McTavish, B-27Montreal, QC H3A 1X9

514-398-8500

Other cool community resources.

Legal Information Clinichttp://mlic.mcgill.ca/site.php?lang=en&page=legalclinic#

McGill UniversityShatner Building

3480 McTavish StMontreal, QC, H3A 1X9

Legal Information Question: 514-398-6792

CDEACFwww.cdeacf.ca

110 rue Sainte-Therese, bureau 101Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 1E6

514-876-1180

www.cdecf.ca

Some great online resources.

La Page Noirewww.blogpagenoire.blogspot.com

265 rue Dorchester, Quebec

418-977-1955

The Queer Zine Archive Projectwww.qzap.org

QZAP2935 N. Fratney St.

Milwaukee, WI 53212USA

BAnQ Collections.

BAnQ Collectionshttp://iris.banq.qc.ca/iris.aspx

The Iris Online Catalogue has hundreds of thousands of digitized documents.

Researchers can consult an index a-z of subjects or search the database.

BAnQ Collections

Really amazing resources at BAnQ: Heritage collection

National collection

Archives

Quebec publications. Documents about Quebec published

elsewhere. Books published before 1801. Maps, posters, postcards, stamps. Various other archives.

BAnQ CollectionsHeritage Collection

BAnQ CollectionsDigital Collection

Documentary heritage produced in Quebec since the 17th century.

Printed Handwritten Photographs Sound Recordings ...and more!

BAnQ CollectionsArchives

Archives on variety of subject matters. 9 archive centres in Quebec. Preservation centre in Montreal.

Holds 10 major special collections (posters, geographical maps, postcards, prints, early

books, art reproductions...) Access to over 2,000 reference books. Reading room to access resources.

Montreal Public Libraries

Great resouces for local history and genealogy.

List of Montreal Public Libraries

Jewish Public Librarywww.jewishpubliclibrary.org

75% of the collection is Judaica. Rare books:

Incunanbula Kabbalistic treateis Talmuds Historical tracts

Copious and old clippings from newspapers. Yizkor books.

ATI's

They can be difficult.

They can be expensive.

I have never filed one.

But it is important to remember that this avenue exists.

Filing ATIs

Download an access-to-information form:

www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/tbsf-fsct/350-57-eng.asp

Find which institutions you want to apply to:

www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/atip-aiprp/apps/coords/index-eng.asp

For a description of program records held by the institutions: http://www.infosource.gc.ca

Understand the info management

Inforsource.gc.ca is a useful directory of government records subject

to ATI laws.

Oral History.

Oral History/Storytelling

Oral HistoryConcordia University1455 Maisonneuve

Montreal, QC, H3G1M8

514-848-2424 poste 5465

http://storytelling.concordia.ca/oralhistory/index.html

But you can always go out and get your own stories.

Lots of researchers work with the community and document their experiences.

This is often called participatory action research or community-based reasearch.

The wayback machine.

Tracking development of webpages over time

There are many tools that allow you browse backwards through time:

Zoetrope (Adobe) Internet Archive (the wayback machine)

Whois.

Whois

Lookup domain and IP address information: www.allwhois.com whois.net whois.domaintools.com

En francais: www.raynette.fr/services/whois

WhoisSecond Level Domains

Domains that will not work in searches:

www.gouv.qc.ca & www.ndpopposition.ab.ca

An alternative resource is the Canadian Internet Registration Authority:

www.whois.cira.ca/public

Ou

www.cira.ca/fr/re_whois.html

Right of initiative of public consultations.

Public Consultations

Find out first hand about new requests addressed to the city by reviewing the right to initiative portal on the city's website

www.ville.montreal.qc.ca

Examples of current requests:Sharing the existing bike path/forbid electric scooters on

Montreal bike paths:

http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=6717,90973576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

Sherlock.

Municiple Information (french)

Sherlock: database of municipale information.

http://www11.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sherlock2/servlet/template/sherlock%2CRechSherlock.vm