Opened on September 8, 2009, the Hockey Hall of Fame�s state-of-the-art "D.K. (Doc) Seaman Hockey Resource Centre" is housed within The MasterCard Centre For Hockey Excellence, a 4-pad arena complex developed by the Lakeshore Lions Club in partnership with the City of Toronto and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd.
The 18,000 square foot resource centre is the home of the Hockey Hall of Fame's vast artifact and archival collections and serves as the focal point for research into the history of Canada's great game and cultural export. In addition, Hockey Canada occupies a portion of the Hall's premises with a resource centre to support grass roots development programming, along with high performance and sledge hockey events in conjunction with the adjacent ice facilities.
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Artifact Storage Area
The archive stacks are the main source of hockey information within the "Doc" Seaman Resource Centre. Located within a climate controlled environment, these stacks contain the world's largest collection of hockey resource materials, including individual photo and biographical files, digitally restored materials, publications, periodicals, media guides and statistical analyses, and much more. The revolving high density shelving creates an efficient method for Resource Centre staff to retrieve relevant materials for any hockey project.
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Eleven 15�-long stacks of hockey related material |
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Over 26,000 published hockey books, programs and guides |
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Approximately 10,000 individual player files |
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Approximately 9,600 individual team, league, and trophy files |
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Over 450 binders of hockey cards, team photos, tickets, and schedules |
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Stick Storage Centre
The D.K. Doc Seaman Hockey Resource Centre
is home to the largest hockey stick storage facility
in the world. Housing at any given time up to 4,000
hockey sticks donated by players and teams of all
levels.
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9 double-sided hockey stick racks, each containing 9 shelves (per side) of storage space that can each hold up to 25 sticks (per shelf). For capacity of over 4000 sticks, not including what's on display at any given time. |
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