Library History Today Blog

Library History Today is a blog about the history and historiography of Canadian libraries and librarians

Thursday, December 23, 2021

Two Canadian films about bookmobiles: Roads to Reading and Journey from Zero

Roads to Reading . 16 mm film, colour, sound, 14 minutes, 1958. Produced by the Nova Scotia Film Bureau for the Nova Scotia Provincial Libra...

Thursday, December 02, 2021

The American Library Association’s Canadian conference in Vancouver, 1949

Canadian library histories often recount six American Library Association’s conferences in Canada: Ottawa (1912), Toronto (1927 and 2003), a...

Thursday, September 30, 2021

Libraries in the Post War Period by Charles Sanderson, 1944

Libraries in the Post War Period, Being the Report of the Chief Librarian to the Toronto Public Library Board, January, 1944 by Charles R. ...

Monday, September 27, 2021

The National Library of Canada, Its Eventual Character and Scope by the Canadian Library Association, August 1949

The National Library of Canada, Its Eventual Character and Scope; A Brief Submitted to the Chairman and Members of the Royal Commission on N...

Saturday, September 25, 2021

A National Library for Canada; A Brief Presented to the Government of Canada, December 1946

A National Library for Canada; A Brief Presented to the Government of Canada submitted by the Canadian Library Association/Association Cana...

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