Showing posts with label national library of canada 1953-2004. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national library of canada 1953-2004. Show all posts
Monday, September 27, 2021

The National Library of Canada, Its Eventual Character and Scope by the Canadian Library Association, August 1949

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The National Library of Canada, Its Eventual Character and Scope; A Brief Submitted to the Chairman and Members of the Royal Commission on N...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

A National Library for Canada; A Brief Presented to the Government of Canada, December 1946

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A National Library for Canada; A Brief Presented to the Government of Canada submitted by the Canadian Library Association/Association Cana...
Thursday, September 23, 2021

A National Library by Elizabeth Dafoe (1944)

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A National Library by Elizabeth Dafoe. [Toronto:] Canadian Adult Education Association, 1944. 5 p. [offprint from Food for Thought , v.4, ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The National Library of Canada: Celebrating a half-century, 1953–2003

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Library banner for 50th anniversary As the National Library of Canada (NLC) moved inexorably to its golden anniversary in 2003, it was still...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

The National Library of Canada in the 1980s and 1990s: The Reality of Neoliberal Reform

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By the time Guy Sylvestre retired at the end of 1983 many ideas crafted in the Future of the National Library (published in 1979) were no ...
Friday, May 22, 2015

The Future of the National Library of Canada (1979)

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National Library of Canada, The future of the National Library of Canada = L'avenir de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada . Ottawa, 197...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

National Library of Canada Expansion from 1967 to the Mid–1970s

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Canada's centennial, 1967, was not just a time to reflect on the country's past but a time to look forward as well. After the $13 mi...
Friday, October 18, 2013

National Library Act of Canada, 1952 — from Drawing Board to Reality

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Sixty years ago, in January 1953, Canada's National Library Act , took effect. The original statute was passed on May 27, 1952 during th...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Case for a National Library of Canada, 1933–1946

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In the midst of the Great Depression a Carnegie funded project to study Canadian libraries appeared. In a hundred and fifty pages this repor...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

"A Plea for a National Library" — A Canadian Odyssey begins in 1911

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Just over a century ago, in 1911, Lawrence Burpee published an article entitled “A Plea for a National Library” in Andrew Mac Phail’s Februa...