Nova Scotia Archives

Zone d'identification

Identifiant

NSHP

Forme autorisée du nom

Nova Scotia Archives

forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom

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Type

Zone du contact

Type

Adresse

Adresse physique

6016 University Ave.

Localité

Halifax

Région

Nova Scotia

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Code postal

Téléphone

Fax

(902) 424-0628

Courriel

Note

Zone de description

Historique

The Public Archives was established in 1929 as a crown agency separate from and independent of the public service. The Public Archives commenced operations in 1931 on completion of a building to house it and the appointment of a provincial archivist. Its principal role was to provide a home for historical public records, which had been vested in the province in right of Her Majesty since the first Public Records Act was passed in 1861. In 1966 the Public Records Disposal Act was amended to give the Provincial Archivist a statutory role in scheduling the final disposition of modern government records. Until 1981 the minister unofficially responsible for the Public Archives was the Premier, since 1930 an ex officio member of the executive Board of Trustees. In 1981 the Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness assumed ministerial responsibility for the Public Archives. In 1996 the Government Records Act placed the Provincial Archivist at the head of a new Government Records Committee. In 1997 the Public Archives of Nova Scotia assumed responsibility for records management within government and was renamed Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM). A new Public Archives Act entrenching the position of the Provincial Archivist was passed in 1998, and in 1999 all employees became civil servants. Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management became a division of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage (now Communities, Culture and Heritage) and the Provincial Archivist its executive director. In April 2009, all affairs and matters pertaining to the records management aspect of Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management were transferred to Treasury and Policy Board. The transfer of NSARM's records management component to the Chief Information Office within Treasury Board was formally put into place at the end of March 2011, whereupon NSARM became known as the Nova Scotia Archives to reflect its changed mandate. The Nova Scotia Archives remains a division within the Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage.

Contexte géographique et culturel

Textes de référence

Authority record based on Statutes of Nova Scotia: 1929 c. 1, 1930 c. 56, 1958 c. 12, 1966 c. 69, 1981 c. 57, 1995-96 c. 7, 1998 c. 24, 2001 c. 4; Order in Council 2003-516 (4 December 2003); Order in Council 2009-169 (2 April 2009).

Structure administrative

Gestion des archives courantes et intermédiaires et politiques de collecte

Bâtiments

Fonds

Instruments de recherche, guides et publications

MemoryNS is an electronic guide to archival holdings at the Nova Scotia Archives. The database includes both archival records of the Government of Nova Scotia and private sector archival records of provincial scope or significance. The database does not make the actual documents available in electronic format, but instead provides descriptions of (i.e. information about) these holdings. These descriptions will enable researchers to identify potential research materials and design appropriate research strategies.

The database is not a complete inventory of the Nova Scotia Archives holdings. It is <a href="http://novascotia.ca/archives/newholdings.asp">updated regularly</a> to provide information about newly available material or older holdings which have been re-described.

Zone de l'accès

Heures d'ouverture

Reading Rooms:
Monday to Friday:
8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Wednesday Evening:
4:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Saturday:
9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Administration Office:
Monday to Friday:
8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Pre-booking is required for Wednesday evening and Saturday retrieval of hard-copy archival materials, some library items, photographs, maps, or sound and moving image material.

Closed on Sundays, Statutory Holidays and Saturdays falling within Holiday Weekends.

Accessibilité

Wheel Chair accessible.

Zone des services offerts

Services d'aide à la recherche

Services de reproduction

Espaces publics

20 Internet-enabled computers are available for public use in the Reading Rooms — and for researchers with laptops or personal communications devices, all public areas of the Archives building have wireless connectivity.

Zone du contrôle

Identifiant de la description

Identifiant du service d'archives

Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

Statut

Niveau de détail

Dates de production, de révision et de suppression

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Notes de maintenance

Mots-clés

Points d'accès

  • Presse-papier

Contact principal

6016 University Ave.
Halifax, Nova Scotia