Library History Today Blog

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

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Special Libraries go on the air “Putting Knowledge to Work” in Montreal, 1936

Montreal Gazette, May 5, 1936 Special Libraries Organize in Montreal after 1932 The 28th annual conference of the Special Libraries Associa...

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...

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