On the Shelf: Saint Pierre & Miquelon

For this edition of On the Shelf, we travel to one of the lesser-known French overseas collectivities, Saint Pierre & Miquelon.

This material was brought to the forefront by a combination of projects in the Collection Services Division.

As we have mentioned before, we are still chipping away at classifying over a million volumes that the Law Library collected before the Class K schedule was introduced in the late 1960s. Also, as we have previously noted, we are having new shelving installed in the first quad of our stacks. So the focus of the classification project has been on titles located in the new shelving area.

And from there we came across a small collection from Saint Pierre & Miquelon.

Actually it’s a single title, namely the Journal Officiel des Iles Saint-Pierre & Miquelon.

I am sure we have other materials within our French collection that include laws for these small islands, but in terms of titles with their own call number designation (KDZ), the official gazette is our lone item.

The title moved onto microfilm in the Law Library during the mid-20th century and is now published online with archives going back to 1995.

But if anyone from St. Pierre & Miquelon or the French government is reading this, we would love to have more titles to keep this little gem company on the shelf.