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, May 13, 2022

Intellectual freedom statement adopted by Ontario Library Association in 1963

Ontario Libraries and Censorship Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the Ontario and Canadian library associations formed specific committ...

Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Four eastern Canadian library associations convene at Montreal, April 1939

Canadian Interprovincial Library Cooperation Begins in the 1930s The scope for library collaboration across Canada broadened in the 1930s wh...

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...

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