Library History Today Blog

Over the course of twenty years, in the 1950s and 1960s, libraries at the University of Toronto continued to expand and improve as they beca...

The Books Drive On . 16 mm film, colour and sound, 1948. Produced by Jean and Glen Eckmier, photography by Bob Henry and script by Tom Raffe...

School Library Development in Postwar Canada, 1945–50 Attention to school library work and better cooperation between public libraries and s...

Canadian librarianship was formed incrementally and was loosely structured in the first half of the twentieth century when it emerged as a m...

There is general agreement that librarianship is a profession (or semi-profession), distinct from an occupation. Over time, it has construct...