Showing posts with label academic library history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic library history. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 08, 2025

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

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College and university education evolved slowly in the Canadian Maritime provinces before 1900. By the time of the First World War, Dalhousi...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Three 1950s Prairie University Libraries: Rutherford, Dafoe, and Murray Memorial

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Before the Second World War, there was only one standalone university library building in the Canadian west. The University of British Colum...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

From Sigmund Samuel to the Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, 1954–1973

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Over the course of twenty years, in the 1950s and 1960s, libraries at the University of Toronto continued to expand and improve as they beca...
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Friday, February 07, 2025

Edwin Williams and Robert Downs Report on Canadian Academic Libraries, 1962—1967

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Resources of Canadian University Libraries for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Report of a Survey for the National Conferenc...
Saturday, December 09, 2023

In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada (2014)

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In Solidarity: Academic Librarian Labour Activism and Union Participation in Canada ed. by Jennifer Dekker and Mary Kandiuk. Sacramento, Ca...
Monday, April 17, 2023

James John Talman (1904-1993)

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James J. Talman was an archivist, librarian, and professional historian who made many scholarly contributions to Canadian history. He was th...