NAICS Canada 519212—Archives

Where 519212 sits

1. 51 Information and cultural industries
2. 519 Web search portals, libraries, archives, and all other information services
3. 5192 Web search portals, libraries and archives, and all other information services
4. 51921 Libraries and archives
5. 519212 Archives

Description

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in acquiring, researching, storing, and making accessible to the public, original historical documents, photographs, maps, audio or audio-visual material, and other archival materials of historical interest.

What 519212 excludes

• Providing motion picture and video stock footage (via libraries) to producers, the media, multimedia and advertising industries (see 512190 post-production and other motion picture and video industries (mex))

Example activities

• centres for documentation (i.e., archives)
• cinematheques (film library)
• film archives
• video archives
• videotheques
• archives
• centres for documentation (i.e., archives)
• cinematheques (film library)
• film archives
• government archive, operating
• motion picture film libraries, archives
• music archives
• photographic libraries, archives
• video archives
• videotheques

519212 in other systems