Library History Today Blog

Library History Today is a blog about the history of Canadian libraries and librarians and for methodologies in library history

Saturday, June 23, 2012

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

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...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

LILLIAN HELENA SMITH WEBSITE

There are not many websites dedicated to Canadian librarians, so these web pages on Lillian H. Smith at are very welcome: just go to Lillia...

Monday, April 06, 2009

The Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario, 1960–1976

Recently a paper on IPLO was published by Greg Linnell in the Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science: The Institute of Professi...

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY'S ONTARIO LIBRARY CONNECTIONS

There are many enthusiastic Lucy Maud fans and scholars across the world, and the recent University of Guelph library's Montgomery confe...

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

THE “POLITICS” OF PUBLIC LIBRARIES AGAIN

Earlier this year, I posted an article by A.S. Popowich, “The Politics of Public Library History,” Dalhousie Journal of Information and Mana...

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