Showing posts with label canadian public libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canadian public libraries. Show all posts
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Canadian Public LIbraries and the Democratic Belief

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The ‘Library Faith’ in Books, Reading, and Democracy A longstanding belief in the positive influence of the public library in 20th-century N...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

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

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Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020 by Whitney Kemble. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Bo...
Friday, January 19, 2024

Library Service in New Brunswick by Peter Grossman (1953)

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Library Service in New Brunswick: A Report and Recommendations by Peter Grossman. Fredericton: New Brunswick Department of Education, 1953....
Thursday, October 26, 2017

ALEXANDER MORRIS' PUBLIC LIBRARY BILL FOR CANADA, 1866

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My article on public library legislation that was not passed by legislators of the United Canadas in 1866. Originally published in Ex Libris...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

WILLIAM HENRY BOULTON’S 1852 PUBLIC LIBRARIES BILL: CANADIAN PRE-CONFEDERATION LIBRARY LEGISLATION

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My article on proposed public library legislation for the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) in 1852. The bill was essentially iden...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Libraries in the Life of the Canadian Nation by Canadian Library Council, 1946

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Libraries in the Life of the Canadian Nation. Part I, Public Libraries: An Interim Report Presented to the Organizational Conference of th...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

The Amulree Commission Report (1933) and Newfoundland Public Libraries

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Newfoundland Royal Commission 1933: Report. William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree, chair. London. H.M.S.O., 1933. vi, 283 p., maps...