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Canadian Library History is a blog about the history and historiography of Canadian libraries and librarians

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Lillian Helena Smith (1887—1983)

Lillian Smith became the first Canadian children’s librarian with academic credentials when she began her career at Toronto Public Library...

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About Me

Lorne Bruce: Formerly in charge of the Archival and Special Collections at University of Guelph. Published "Free Books for All: the Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930" in 1994; "Places to Grow: Public Libraries and Communities in Ontario, 1930-2000" in 2020 (revised); "Public Library Boards in Postwar Ontario" (2nd ed) with Karen Bruce in 2012, and "George Herbert Locke and The Transformation of Toronto Public Library, 1908–1937" (rev. 2024).

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