Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Community Information Services
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
Community Information Services was established in 1971 as part of the Community Development Branch of the Ontario Department of the Provincial Secretary and Citizenship.
The Community Information Services unit was transferred to the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services in April 1972, forming part of the Community Services Division. In 1974, however, the office became part of the Program Development Division.
Effective April 1975, responsibility for the Community Information Services Office unit was transferred to the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation, where it formed a part of the Multicultural Development and Public Libraries Division.
For a brief period in 1979, the unit formed a part of the Citizens' Inquiry Branch of the Information Access Division. By December 1979, however, it was transferred to the new Libraries and Community Information Branch.
In 1989, responsibility for Community Information Services Program was transferred to the Grants Administration, Planning and Evaluation Unit, of the Libraries and Community Information Branch. With this change, the Community Information Services unit ceased to exist.
Ministerial responsibility for Community Information Services rested with the Ontario Department of the Provincial Secretary, from 1971 to 1972; the Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services, from 1972 to 1975; the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Recreation, form 1975- 1982; the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture, from 1982- 1987; and with the Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications, from 1987-1989.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
The Community Information Services unit administered the Community Information Services Program. The unit provided functional support for a network of community information centres (CIC) in Ontario, including funding through grants, providing advice on information management, staffing and volunteer training, and the production of resource material.
Address
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
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Identifier of related entity
Category of relationship
Type of relationship
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Description of relationship
Related entity
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Category of relationship
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Description of relationship
Related entity
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Type of relationship
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Description of relationship
Related entity
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Description of relationship
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Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Epithet
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
Inventory 47 - Culture (July 1996)
Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1971-1989
Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
G. Brown, R. Anger