Library History Today Blog

I had an opportunity to speak at OLA's most recent Super Conference in Toronto. It was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the revamped annu...

Early in the twentieth century a small group of trustees, librarians, and persons interested in libraries met in Toronto at the Ontario Educ...

The Institution shall be called The Toronto Public Library—and the date of its commencement is hereby declared to be the 27th of October, 18...

After 1980 library mechanization in Ontario's public libraries gave way to more rapid changes in terms of automation, i.e., the systemat...

The new 1966 Public Libraries Act formed the structure for rapid, and conflicting, developments into the mid-1980s when this act was grea...