Library History Today Blog

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

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Mabel Dunham: Librarianship as a Profession for Women, May 1921

At the end of her year as president of the Ontario Library Association in March 1921, B. Mabel Dunham, the chief librarian of the Kitche...

Saturday, January 22, 2022

Presidential speech by Mary J.L. Black to the Ontario Library Association, 1918

Mary J.L. Black becomes President of the Ontario Library Association 1917–18 On April 10, 1917, Mary J.L. Black was elected president of t...

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Alexander Calhoun defends The Grapes of Wrath in Calgary, 1940

“The problem of obscenity in books is undoubtedly a very thorny one for librarians. Possibly the only confident statement one dare make on ...

Wednesday, January 05, 2022

Marshall McLuhan speaks to Ontario librarians about books and media, 1954–56

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, 1945 Marshall McLuhan Addresses Librarians about the Future of the Book in Oshawa, 1956 By the mid–1950s, pro...

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...

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