Library History Today Blog

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

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec (2020)

Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec : Portraits et parcours de vies professionnelles edited by Marcel Lajeunesse, Éric ...

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020

Contested Spaces: A Critical History of Canadian Public Libraries as Neutral Places, 1960–2020 by Whitney Kemble. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Bo...

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...

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