Ontario. Community Information Services

• Community Information Services

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.

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.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Inventory 47 - Culture (July 1996)

Ontario Government Telephone Directories, 1971-1989

Canadiana Name Authorities, 1996-12- 24

Archivist(s):
G. Brown, R. Anger