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For many years, Anne Hume was a dynamic force in Canadian librarianship. From 1936–57, she was the Chief Librarian of Windsor, Ontario, a ci...

War Devastated Libraries in Europe in 1945 In the summer of 1945, in the aftermath of war, many European communities lay in ruins. Millions ...

Jessie Robson (Mrs. Austin) Bothwell and the Saskatchewan Library Advisory Council, The Problem of Controlling the Reading of Undesirable Pe...

Canadian Carnegie Grants for Public Libraries At the turn of the 20th century, the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie rapidly became an internat...

In 2007, I made a presentation at the Canadian Library Association in St. John’s on the development of public libraries in Canada before 186...