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CSA - Larkin Kerwin Library

The Library was established in 1991, shortly after the creation of the Canadian Space Agency and is named after the first president of the Canadian Space Agency.

Our goals are

• to develop a specialized collection that supports the work of the scientists, researchers, engineers and administrators within the Canadian Space Agency
• to provide access to information products and services

The Larkin Kerwin Library is a bridge to the world of information and a partner in research. It provides access to a collection of scientific, technical and general documents as well as access to a great variety of electronic sources of information. The Library is strategically placed to provide expertise for the retrieval, acquisition, organization and dissemination of information within the Canadian Space Agency.

Loan services

Employees of the Canadian Space Agency, its partners and other libraries have access to documents in the general collection.

If you are not employees and would like to borrow a document from the collection, simply make a request for an interlibrary loan through your public, school or institutional library (college, university or corporate). Certain documents (periodicals, reference works or controlled-access reports or studies) are not available for interlibrary loan to external patrons.

The document loan period is four weeks and items are renewable, with the exception of documents that have been reserved by another patron.

On-site consultation

The library provides a reading room for on-site consultation as well as audiovisual equipment for videos and microfiche and computers for access to the automated catalogue and the Internet. Members of the public must make an appointment to visit the library.

Document services

The library provides information on scientific, technical, strategic, business or news-related queries.

Library services are available to all patrons regardless of their expertise. Let us provide you with answers to your research needs.

Some collection statistics

• 10,000 monographs and conference proceedings
• 200 subscriptions to magazines, newsletters and journals
• 600 reference works
• 60 CD-ROMs
• 1,100 videotapes
• 4,000 technical reports, including studies and reports produced by various organizations, such as NASA, AIAA, ESA, IEEE, IEE, ASM, AGARD and SPIE
• 300 contractor reports in the form of studies or reports produced by a branch of the Canadian Space Agency or by outside firms on behalf of the Agency
• 400 annual reports of the last five years by leading aerospace firms and Canadian Space Agency partners
• 200 standards from organizations such as the IEEE, ISO, U.S. Department of Defense (MIL Standards), Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• Access to over 1,000 external databases with international coverage