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Library History Today is a blog about the history and historiography of Canadian libraries and librarians

Thursday, November 27, 2025

George-Émile Marquis and Public Libraries in Quebec before 1945

Nos bibliothèques publiques , by Georges-Émile Marquis. Québec: Éditions du Terroir, 1925, 16 p., illus. Plaidoyer pour les bibliothèques p...

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Canadian Public LIbraries and the Democratic Belief

The ‘Library Faith’ in Books, Reading, and Democracy A longstanding belief in the positive influence of the public library in 20th-century N...

Wednesday, October 08, 2025

Three Early Maritime Memorial Libraries at Dalhousie, Acadia, and Mount Allison

College and university education evolved slowly in the Canadian Maritime provinces before 1900. By the time of the First World War, Dalhousi...

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec (2020)

Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec : Portraits et parcours de vies professionnelles edited by Marcel Lajeunesse, Éric ...

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020 by Whitney Kemble. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Bo...

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