Library History Today Blog

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...

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...

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

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

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