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as a number o f relevant American, European and Israeli biblio
graphic journals. Microfilms o f some important bibliographic
works are also held, most notably the unpublished
History and
Annals o f Hebrew Printing in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
by
Moses Marx, and theJudaica catalogue o f the Hebrew University
Library in Jerusalem. The Lowy Room also holds a copy — gen
erally unavailable but bibliographically indispensable — o f the
card catalogue o f Hebrew and Yiddish titles (to 1975) held at the
Library o f Congress in Washington.
The National Library is one o f several institutions in Canada
with extensive or significant holdings o f Hebraica and Judaica.
(Other collections o f note are found in Montreal, Toronto,
Winnipeg and Edmonton.) The Canadian Union Catalogue,
maintained at the National Library, provides bibliographic con
trol for Hebraica and Judaica held in reporting repositories
across Canada; since 1980 this access is provided on-line through
DOB IS, the library’s own automated bibliographic system. Thus
the National Library is not only itself a repository, but also one o f
the major bibliographic resources in Canada for research in the
fields o f Canadian Jewry, modern Jewish scholarship, and rare
Hebrew books and manuscripts.