About My Account

Use My Account to personalize features on the Library and Archives Canada (LAC) website:

  • save copies of collection records (My Research)
  • view your contributions to our records (My Co-Lab Contributions)
  • track or change LAC events for which you have registered (My Event Calendar)

On this page

Register for an account

You must have an email address so that we may link you to an account.

  1. Go to Sign in to My Account
  2. Click on Register for an account
  3. Complete the form
    • The name you enter as display name will appear at the top of the screen on all LAC web pages when you are signed in
    • You will get an email asking you to confirm your address
  4. Confirm your email address (you will be returned to a LAC web page)
  5. Click on your display name at the top right of the screen to start using features
  6. Sign out when you are finished

Sign into My Account

When you return to the LAC website, sign in to use My Account features.

  1. On any LAC page, click on Sign in at the top of the screen
  2. Enter your email and password (optional: check Remember me for quicker future sign ins)
  3. Click on your display name at the top right of the screen to start using features
  4. Sign out when you are finished

My Research

My Research allows you to save copies of collection records and organize them into folders that you create. You may save any number of records and create unlimited numbers of folders.

Add a record to a folder

  1. Use Collection Search to find a record of interest
  2. Click the Add to My Research button, which you may find in either of two locations:
    • on the search results screen at the right
    • in a record description under Record Information — Brief at the right
  3. Add the record to the My Favourites folder, or type in the name of a new folder and click Submit

Working with your saved records and folders.

Use the action buttons on the right of your screen for folders and records.

You may perform these actions:

  • Rename a folder
  • Share a link to the record or folder by email. In the next screen, enter one or more email addresses. You may choose to include your personal notes.
    • If the recipient does not have My Account, they may click on links to see the shared collection records. Recipients may save records or folders only if they have their own My Account.
  • Move a record or folder.
  • Delete a record or a folder from your account. This does not delete records from Collection Search. If you delete a record by accident, go to your recycling bin to restore it.
  • Add or edit notes in a record.
  • Publish a research list of records with others.

My Event Calendar

My Event Calendar gives details about LAC events that you registered to attend. It allows you to cancel events for which you registered or change your reservations. The calendar does not include reservations for onsite research.

Cancel your registration

  1. Expand the details of your event by clicking on the arrow to the left of the event name
  2. Click Edit my registration
  3. Click on the event date
  4. Click the checkbox at the left of the event name to remove the checkmark
  5. In the next window, click Yes

Change the number of seats reserved

  1. Expand the details of your event by clicking on the arrow to the left of the event name
  2. Click Edit my registration
  3. Click on the event date
  4. Change the number of guests in the bottom box and click Update registration

My Co-Lab Contributions

Track images of records that you contributed to (such as transcribing, translating, tagging or describing) using LAC's collaboration feature, Co-Lab. The images are organized by most recent to oldest contribution. Learn more about Co-Lab.

Track my archival order

View the status and history of your archival orders for items selected for on-site consultation at Library and Archives Canada's Ottawa location – 395 Wellington Street.

  • From your My account dashboard, click on Track my archival order action button.
  • Once the Track my archival order page opens, scroll down to access the list of your loan requests.
  • You can filter and narrow down the total results using:
    • keywords in the search bar
    • limiters on the left side of the screen. You can limit by the status of the loan request, location within the building, and period.
  • For each loan request, the Track my archival order page shows:
    • request number
    • container label
    • container barcode
    • date of submitted request
    • current status
    • check-out date
    • pickup location
    • due date
  • Contact information for archival order renewals is provided after containers are checked-out to you.

Note: To track your archival orders, the name and email address used to create your My account and attached to your user card must be the same.

Account settings

You may edit your profile information or change your password.

For help or more information

Email accesnumerique-digitalaccess@bac-lac.gc.ca