Library History Today Blog

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

Friday, October 10, 2014

ALFRED FITZPATRICK AND THE BEGINNING OF ONTARIO'S TRAVELLING LIBRARIES, 1900-05

Alfred Fitzpatrick, n.d. Ontario's Travelling Libraries began modestly and developed over six decades before the system was wound down i...

Wednesday, October 01, 2014

Three British Columbia Public Library Commission reports, 1927–1941

British Columbia Public Library Commission. British Columbia Library Survey 1927-28, Conducted Under the Auspices of British Columbia Publi...

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Four Canadian Maritime Library Surveys in the Great Depression

Gerhard Lomer, Report on a Proposed Three-year Demonstration of Library Service for Prince Edward Island. Montreal: McGill University Libr...

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Angus Mowat and Ontario's Rural Libraries, 1937–40

Well, after years of research, I have published something on Angus Mowat, Ontario's irrepressible Inspector (later Director) of Public L...

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

A Regional Library and Its Readers (1940): Libraries and reading in Prince Edward Island

A Regional Library and Its Readers; A Study of Five Years of Rural Reading by H. B. Chandler and J.T. Croteau. New York: American Associati...

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