Showing posts with label academic library history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label academic library history. Show all posts
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...
Saturday, April 08, 2023

Fred Landon (1880-1969)

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Fred Landon was a journalist, librarian, a historian-teacher-administrator at the Western University, and an author. After graduating from W...
Saturday, April 01, 2023

Gerhard Richard Lomer (1882–1970)

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Gerhard Lomer was born in Montreal in 1882: he was the son of Adolph and Ellen Lomer a well-to-business family. In his youth, he spent time ...
Monday, January 09, 2023

Elizabeth Dafoe (1900–1960)

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For a quarter of century, from the mid-1930s to 1960, Elizabeth Dafoe was a central figure in the development of the University of Manitoba ...