Statistics Canada Research Data Centre

Construction is underway in McPherson Library for a Statistics Canada Research Data Centre. This UVic data centre will be affiliated with the BC Regional Data Centre situated at UBC. The University of Victoria is providing the space for this facility which will support research for faculty and graduate students. These centres are often located within university libraries and this UVic facility will be located in the north-west corner of the Microforms area. Broken and out-dated equipment has been removed from Microforms to provide the space. The library location at UVic was selected given the role of the library with respect to Statistics Canada public access datasets on campus.

The Research Data Centre is built to maintain the highest levels of security and will be staffed by Statistics Canada employees as it remains a Federal government facility. Such local centres offer researchers access to the same
datasets presently available only in centres on the mainland or in other
provinces. Researchers at UVic are very excited about the prospect of having
this data available to them in a convenient location. Project completion is
expected by April 10, 2006.

For further information contact Wendie McHenry, Assistant University Librarian
(wmchenry@uvic.ca) or Doug Baer, Sociology, UVic BCRDC representative, baer@uvic.ca