The Archives of Ontario, a division of the Ministry of Government
Services, is responsible for preserving and providing access to the
documentary record of Ontario.
More than 99% of the holdings are in paper format. To this end, more
than 300,00 containers of material were moved to Archives ONE's
facility between April, 2005 and February, 2006, which provides
environmental controls and security equal anywhere in the world.
The long-term archival storage and retrieval service "... is unique. No
other government archives in the world was found to be using this model
to satisfy its long-term storage requirements," says the website.
Retrieval times have dropped from between 48 and 72 hours to as little
as 3 hours, showing the benefit of having properly stored materials.
The second phase of the work will involve the building of a public
service facility for the archives in the City of Toronto. The target
date of this phase will be March, 2009.
You can let the archives know your thoughts on this subject by taking a
few moments to send them your comments through an online form found in
the Feedback section of their website.
