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| Date | NRC-CISTI Event |
|---|---|
| 1916 | National Research Council (NRC) of Canada founded |
| 1924 | Founding of the NRC Library |
| 1928 | First NRC chief librarian appointed – Margaret Gill |
| 1929 | Publication of the first periodical by NRC Research Press |
| 1947 | The Technical Information Service is transferred to the NRC from the Department of Reconstruction |
| 1957 | The NRC Library unofficially takes on the role of national science library as the Collection reaches 350,000 volumes |
| 1960 | The Collection grows to 450,000 a year after being officially recognized as the National Science Library of Canada (NSL) |
| 1966 | NSL recognized as national library of health sciences for Canada |
| 1967 | The Collection reaches 725,000 volumes |
| 1969 | NRC receives mandate for Cabinet to develop a national scientific and technical information system |
| 1974 | Unification of NSL and Technical Information Service – NRC-CISTI is born |
| 1983 | NRC-CISTI generated more than 200,000 copies and loans of documents – more than any other information centre in North America |
| 1984 | NRC-CISTI budget now part of NRC's general envelope |
| 1987 | Dr. Douglas Dewar, reference librarian at NRC-CISTI, plays a role in identifying toxin found in PEI mussels, helping to save lives |
| 1994 | Through IntelliDoc, NRC-CISTI's document supply service is computerized from end-to-end |
| 1997 | NRC-CISTI launches its Virtual Library for NRC Research Institutes | NRC-CISTI's national network of branch libraries become NRC Information Centres |
| 1999 | NRC-CISTI's inventory exceeds 8 million and receives more than 3,500 requests daily |
| 2000 | CISTI Source launched | eBooks from NRC Research Press available from NetLibrary |
| 2001 | NRC Research Press e-journals available freely to all Canadians via the federal Depository Services Program |
| 2002 | CISTI Sources Alerts launched | Pay-per-view for NRC Research Press Journals begins | NRC Research Press launches new journal, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science |
| 2003 | CISTI launches Secure Desktop Delivery (SDD) | CISTI takes on an expanding regional role with additional staff and locations | NRC Research Press Monographs Program launches a Biography series |
| 2004 | CTI pilot project launched with IRAP Atlantic/Nunavut - in its first year, it produces 125 deliverables. |
| 2005 | Purchase of backfiles for close to 1200 titles from major publishers | SDD available for entire CISTI Journal collection | NRC Research Press launches its first full-text HTML article in the September issue of Canadian Journal of Botany |
| 2006 | Outsell Inc. reports that CISTI tops the list of information providers | Federal Science eLibrary pilot project completed | NRC Research Press adds its 16th Journal title, Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism | NRC Research Press digitizes back issues back to 1951 |
| 2007 | Pam Bjornson becomes Director General of NRC-CISTI when Bernard Dumouchel retires | Pay-per-Article service launched by CISTI | Client Journal Group created at NRC Research Press |
| 2008 | Discover is launched | Groundbreaking Places and Spaces exhibit comes to NRC-CISTI |
| 2009 | CISTI hosts ICSTI 2009 conference in Ottawa | Google Scholar and NRC-CISTI collaboration launched | CISTI is now on Facebook | New NRC Research Press Client Journal Web Platform launched |
Related CISTI News issue:
From Books to Bytes: Pioneers of the Information Highway – Volume 16, Number 5, June 1999
