Montreal Library Catalogue with 4 Million Documents and Borrowing Statistics

Montreal libraries provide bibliographical records for approximately 4 million documents. The dataset includes borrowing statistics since the materials were added to the Nelligan Discovery catalog. It is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze library borrowing trends based on borrowing statistics
• Study bibliographic metadata distribution based on 4 million documents
• Build recommendation models for library materials based on usage data

Strengths

• Approximately 4 million bibliographic records
• Includes borrowing statistics since inclusion in the Nelligan Discovery catalog

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Likely extracted from the Nelligan Discovery library catalog system.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 15:49:39.408879; freshness should be verified

Geography

Montreal, Québec, Canada