Showing posts with label library history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label library history. Show all posts
Monday, February 26, 2024

Public Libraries and Marxism by Joe and John Pateman (2021)

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  Public Libraries and Marxism by Joe Pateman and John Pateman. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 119 p., indexed. Public libraries off...
Friday, June 23, 2023

Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach (2019) by Sam Popowich

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Confronting the Democratic Discourse of Librarianship: A Marxist Approach by Sam Popowich. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press, 2019. 322 p...
Monday, August 15, 2022

Ontario Public Libraries: The Provincial Role in a Triad of Responsibilities, 1982

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Ontario Public Libraries: The Provincial Role in a Triad of Responsibilities. The Report of the Ontario Public Libraries Programme Review fo...
Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Marshall McLuhan: Libraries: Past, Present, Future, 1970

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Libraries: Past, Present, Future . An Address delivered by Marshall McLuhan at the Geneseo State College Library School, New York State, on ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Four eastern Canadian library associations convene at Montreal, April 1939

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Canadian Interprovincial Library Cooperation Begins in the 1930s The scope for library collaboration across Canada broadened in the 1930s wh...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Two Fraser Valley films: The Fraser Valley Public Library (c. 1932) and The Library on Wheels (1945)

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Fraser Valley Public Library , 16 mm., b & w., 12 minutes, c. 1932. British Columbia Public Library Commission. Photographed and produce...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

Ontario’s Landmark Public Libraries Act, 1920

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A century ago, in June 1920, the Farmer-Labour government in Ontario introduced a new public libraries act, mostly through the work of the E...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Toronto’s Free Library: Facts for the Citizens (1881) by John Taylor

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Toronto’s Free Library: Facts for the Citizens by John Taylor. Toronto: n.p., signed 25 October 1881,  4 p., tables. Alderman John Taylor...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Notes by the Way on Free Libraries and Books (1882) by John Hallam

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Notes by the Way on Free Libraries and Books with a Plea for the Establishment of Rate-Supported Libraries in the Province of Ontario by Jo...