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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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

 Mary Kinley Ingraham was the chief librarian at Acadia University from 1917-1944 at a time when very few females headed academic libraries ...

The general history of college and university library development in Canada has not been examined extensively. There are few studies that sy...

Dorothy I. Hamilton, The Libraries of the Universities of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. A Report . (Ann Arbor: Depar...