Our catalogue is now available through the Knowledge Base of OCLC, an international library services cooperative.  

Thanks to the resources of OCLC, this change will result in considerable improvements to our MARC files, including: 

• a change to item identifiers, which will enable us to manage the NFB’s new digital works;  
• the addition of awards won for each film;  
• records in compliance with RDA cataloguing code (Resource Description and Access), in use since 2013; 
• more regular and frequent updates;  
• access to OCLC’s support service.

How to access MARC 21 Records 

If you are an OCLC member, you can easily take advantage of the new and improved MARC 21 records. (Details on OCLC membership are available on their website). To access our catalogue, you can visit the OCLC Knowledge Base (link to come), which will allow you to find the Provider ID and Collection ID needed to activate the NFB collection in Collections Management. For more information on OCLC features and services, please contact supportcanada@oclc.org. 

If you are not subscribed to OCLC services, the files produced by the NFB will remain available for download here and will be updated regularly and automatically. We will therefore no longer be publishing the differential files every quarter; only the latest update will be displayed. In addition, records are henceforth RDA compliant. To access MARC cataloguing records on nfb.ca, please create an nfb.ca account and contact us to have your access activated.