Library History Today Blog

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

Friday, August 08, 2025

Canadian Special Libraries Form a National Identity, 1945–1970

Library of Parliament, Ottawa, 1940s In the spring of 1946, Elizabeth Homer Morton, the Secretary of the Canadian Library Council, recounted...

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Three 1950s Prairie University Libraries: Rutherford, Dafoe, and Murray Memorial

Before the Second World War, there was only one standalone university library building in the Canadian west. The University of British Colum...

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Marion Elizabeth Gilroy (1912–1981)

Marion Gilroy, BA portrait, 1932 Marion Gilroy began a promising academic career at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia during the 1930s. Wi...

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