Library History Today Blog

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

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Places to Grow: Public Libraries and Communities in Ontario, 1930–2000 by Lorne Bruce (revised 2020)

This monograph is a follow up from my previous history of public library growth in Ontario, Free Books for All: the Public Library Mov...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

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

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

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...

View web version

About Me

Lorne Bruce: Guelph, ON., Canada

View my complete profile

Powered by Blogger.