La mémoire patrimoniale du Québec : préservation, politiques et actions pour la numérisation des collections patrimoniales.

Undertaken at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI) of the Université de Montréal, this research project examines the digitalisation policies, the preservation and the access to electronic documents in Québec. The purpose of this project was to study the existing policies regarding the scanning of heritage collections in Québec. Our project was anchored in a methodology composed of three stages. Firstly, we examined the UNESCO documents (1972, 1989 and 2003) regarding heritage documents in general and scanned heritage documents in parti- cular. Theoretically, this study allows us to highlight certain basic concepts, such as "heritage collection" (Turcan, 2003), "digitalised heritage" (UNESCO, 2003 and Molinaro, 2005) and the construction of a heritage (Micoud, 2005). Secondly, we analysed the contents of the documents and the proceedings of the cultural institutions involved in numerical information, both federally and provincially in Canada, Finally, we suggest a theoretical model for the policies governing scanning programmes and we examine the scanning of heritage collections at the Bibliothèque and Archives nationales du Québec. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]