Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2009 - 2024 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Based at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, the G20 Research Group is an international network of academics, students, and professions who study the work of the G20 leaders, ministers, and central bank governors, as well as other G20 institutions. Members of the research group attend G20 summits and collect official documents as well as other materials. The G20 Research Group host the G20 Information Centre, an online repository of information and analysis pertaining to the G20. Their work is complementary to the work of the G7 Research Group.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The materials were donated to the library by Dr. John Kirton after each successive G20 summit.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The G20 Research Collection is a unique resource consisting of materials (print, realia, and other media) collected from the summits of the major industrialized, democratic countries, and from individual summit countries. The material dates from 2009 onward. The content is primarily textual records related to the political and economic relations of and between member countries, but also includes realia and ephemeral materials collected from each summit.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
A previous system of arrangement was imposed upon the material, whereby the records of each summit were arranged into the following categories:
• major summit documents (communiqués, declarations, and other reports)
• minor summit documents (schedules, media information)
• official documents of member countries
• materials from non-G20 groups (governments, civil society and others)
• realia, including promotional material and press kits issued by the host countries
In restructuring the description of this collection, the archivist has made every effort to retain as much of the original category structure as possible while conforming to a logical hierarchy of arrangement. This is especially reflected in the naming of files.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- French
- Korean
- Spanish
- Russian
- Turkish
- Arabic
- Italian
- Indonesian
- Portuguese