The Canadian Agriculture Library provides a wide range of information services to Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, and its portfolio partners such as the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Through its partnership with the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (CISTI), the Canadian Agriculture Library also provides the research and academic community, the agri-food industry and Canadians access to its collection.
Since its formal establishment in 1910, the Canadian Agriculture Library has built one of the foremost collections in the world in the agricultural and food sciences, with more than one million volumes, including 4,000 current subscriptions and numerous special collections. Specialty subjects include dairying, entomology, horticulture, pesticides, plant diseases, soil science and veterinary medicine.
The Canadian Agriculture Library provides services through its Main library in the National Capital Region and its 21 information centres located in research stations across the country.