Four Canadian Maritime Library Surveys in the Great Depression
Gerhard Lomer, Report on a Proposed Three-year Demonstration of Library Service for Prince Edward Island. Montreal: McGill University Library, 1932. 52 p., illus, folding plan. Nora Bateson, The Carnegie Library Demonstration in Prince Edward Island, Canada, 1933-1936 . Charlottetown: Prince Edward Island Libraries, 1936. 52 p., illus. with an Appendix: The Public Library Act (assented to April 4, 1935; p. 50-52). Nora Bateson, Library Survey of Nova Scotia . Halifax, Department of Education, 1938. 40 p., map; with an Appendix: An act to provide for the support of regional libraries: p. 40. Nova Scotia Regional Libraries Commission, Libraries for Nova Scotia , 2nd rev. ed. Halifax: the Commission, 1940.12 p. The Depression in Maritime Canada presented enormous obstacles to library development. This period did, however, spur important new thinking about how public library services could be established and maintained by public funds and management. As the n...