The brief, pertinent biographies of prominent Canadian persons may include personal facts; significant information on education, careers, publications, honours, awards, accomplishments, or association work; and comments by contemporaries. The inclusion of sources provides readers with further references on an individual.
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Jean Kerfoot c.1938. credit torontonensis 1938
b. Nov. 26, 1916, Picton, ON; d. Nov. 18, 2005, Toronto, ON
Education:
1938 BA (Victoria College, University of Toronto)
1947 BLS (McGill University)
Positions:
1939-1973 Ontario Legislative Library
1963-1973 Chief Librarian, Ontario Legislative Library
Publications:
Allen, Jean Kerfoot (1977). “The history of libraries in Ontario.” In Lorraine and Carl Garry, eds. Canadian libraries in their changing environment. Toronto: York University, Centre for Continuing Education: 47-77.
Allen, Jean Rodgers Kerfoot (1998). Family of Annie Rodgers and Horace Watson Kerfoot. [s.l.: s.n.].
Associations/Committees:
Canadian Library Association
Ex Libris Association
Comments:
Jean “was the first to have a professional library science degree” at the Ontario Legislative Library. “Her tenure saw improvements to the law collections – critical for legislatures – and many other advances.”
During her tenure, the Legislative Library also made a contribution to the education of new librarians. “Students of the Faculty of Library Science at the University of Toronto benefited from staff members’ knowledge of government documents and special libraries through work periods in the Library and class lectures. The sharing of information was also extended to practising members of the profession.”
When Jean retired in 1973 “she received tributes in the House from Government Services Minister James W. Snow, Opposition Leader, Robert F. Nixon, and NDP Member Donald C. MacDonald.” Nixon stated, “In the 10 years that I have been a member of the Legislature, the library has changed quite dramatically in many respects, and I think the changes and the improvements are associated very directly with Miss Kerfoot’s initiative.” Snow described the Library as an “excellent reference establishment” and a “vital and invaluable resource to all of us in our day-to-day work.”
Sources:
A Credit to this province: a history of the Ontario Legislative Library and its predecessors, 1792-1992 (researched and written by Fiona M. Watson; edited by Elizabeth Hulse). Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library,1993.
Obituary, Globe and Mail, May 2, 2006.
Obituary, ELAN, issue 39, spring 2006:19.
John Hall Archer, c.1984. Credit University of Regina
Education:
Regina Normal School, 1932-1933
BA (hist.) 1947 (Saskatchewan
MA (hist) 1948 (Saskatchewan)
BLS 1949 (McGill)
PhD 1969 (Queen's).
Positions:
1933-1939 Teacher, rural schools of Saskatchewan
1930-1940 Vice Principal, Wawota High School, Saskatoon
1940-1945 Captain, Royal Canadian Artillery, 1st Canadian Survey Regiment
1949-1951 Administrative Assistant to the Legislative Librarian of Saskatchewan
1951-1964 Legislative Librarian of Saskatchewan
1957-1964 Provincial Archivist of Saskatchewan
1964-1967 Director of Libraries, McGill University
1967- University Archivist and Professor of History, Queen's University
Publications:
Archer, John H. (1948). Historic Saskatoon: a concise illustrated history of Saskatoon. Saskatoon: Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Archer, John H. (1969). A Study of Archival Institutions in Canada. Kingston: PhD Thesis, Queen's University.
Archer, John H. (1980). Saskatchewan, a history. Saskatoon, Sask: Western Producer Prairie Books.
Archer, John H. (!984). The U of R: a history. Regina, Sask: Public Relations Office, University of Regina.
Associations/Committees:
Canadian Library Association, Regina Library Association, Saskatchewan Library Association
Honours:
1952 Confederation Medal
1980 Officer, Order of Canada
1987 Saskatchewan Order of Merit
1999 The main library at the University of Regina was named in his honour
Accomplishments:
1956-1957 President, Regina Library Association
1959-1962 Treasurer, Canadian Library Association
1961-1962 President, Saskatchewan Library Association
1966-1967 President-elect and President, Canadian Library Association
Other areas of activity:
1956 Secretary, Royal Commission on the Judicial System of Saskatchewan
1961-1962 Special Projects Officer, Glassco Commission (Royal Commission on Government Organization in Canada)
1963-1967 Board of Directors, Canadian Centenary Committee
1963 Accreditation team, University of British Columbia, School of Librarianship
1969 Accreditation team, University of Western Ontario, School of Information and Library Science
Comments:
“He has been prominent as a librarian, archivist, Canadian historian and university administrator. Following appointments in his native Saskatchewan and at McGill and Queen's universities, he was President of the University of Regina from 1974 to 1976. His principal recent publication is a history of Saskatchewan, and he directed that province's diamond jubilee celebrations in 1980.” — citation from Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded December 1981
Sources:
Ian E. Wilson, “John Hall Archer, 1914-2004,” Archivaria 57 (Spring 2004): 173-177. [PDF download]
John Hall Archer biography at Wikipedia. 9Accessed July 27, 20130.
Effie Astbury BA graduate portrait. Credit Old McGill Yearbook 1938
b. Dec. 9, 1916, Montreal, QC; d. May 22, 2008, Montreal, QC
Education:
1938 BA (McGill University, Classics)
1939 BLS 1939 (McGill University)
1956 MLS 1956 (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1939-1949 Reference Librarian, McGill University Medical Library
1949-1950 Teaching Assistant, McGill University Library School
1950-1953 Lecturer, McGill University Library School
1953-1965 Assistant Professor, McGill University, Graduate School of Library Science
1965-1969 Associate Professor
1968-1979 Professor
1972-1976 Director, Graduate School of Library Science, McGill University
1982-2008 Professor Emerita
Associations, Committees:
1971-1974 Member of the Senate, McGill University
CLA, CACUL, QLA, Member of Councils and Committees of these associations
Corporation of Professional Librarians of Quebec, Committee member
Publications:
Astbury, Effie C. (1944). “Congenital cardiac disease: bibliography of the 1000 cases analyzed in Maud Abbott's atlas.” American Heart Journal, v. 27: 688–732.
Astbury, Effie C. (1961). “The Canadian Library Inquiry: a partial report on the 16th Annual Canadian Library Association Conference.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 55, no. 9: 818–820.
Astbury, Effie C. (1962). “Implications for the reference librarian [catalogue code revision].” Wilson Library Bulletin 36, no. 6: 450–455.
Astbury, Effie C. (1969). “Library technicians and the reference service.” Canadian Library Journal 26, no. 1: 54–57.
Astbury, Effie C. (1981). Casey A. Wood (1856-1942); ophthalmologist, bookman, ornithologist: a bio-bibliography. Montreal: Graduate School of Library Science (Occasional paper 7).
Astbury, Effie C. (1984). “Polite, cautious but determined.” In A fair shake: autobiographical essays by McGill women, edited by Margaret Gillett and Kay Sibbald, pp. 261–267. Montréal: Eden Press.
Astbury, Effie C. (1991). Canada and the Second World War: the home front and war aims: a bibliography. Montreal: Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University. (Occasional paper 11)
Honours:
Beta Phi Mu (International Library Science Honor Society) 1958-1982 Emeritus Professor
Accomplishments:
1934 Graduation from Outremont's Strathcona Academy with 4 medals
BA magna cum laude, McGill University
Other areas of activity:
In her retirement, at the Griffith McConnell Home, Cote St. Luc, she served as President of the Residents' Association and sat on the Residence's Board of Governors
Comments:
Her specialties were library science education, reference service, and bibliography. “For Effie's many students, her greatest contribution was as a dedicated and inspirational teacher. Her shyness was balanced by a warm smile, infectious enthusiasm, quiet humour, and thorough professionalism. Her high standards and superbly organized courses with their up-to-date material made her a role model for generations of librarians. She possessed grace, dignity, integrity, and moral authority.” (McNally)
Sources:
Obit. The Gazette (Montreal), May 30, 2008
McNally, Peter F. “Effie Constance Astbury, December 9, 1916 - May 22, 2008.” (Composed with the support and agreement of the Astbury-Smith Family)
Directory of library & information professionals. (1988). Chicago: American Library Association.
McGill University Library catalogue
A Fair Shake: Autobiographical Essays by McGill Women. Edited by Margaret Gillett and Kay Sibbald. Montreal, Eden Press, 1984, pp. 261–267.
Claude B. Aubry c.1980. Credit Université d'Ottawa
b. Oct. 23, 1914, Morin Heights, QC; d. Nov. 3, 1984, Ottawa, ON
Education:
Graduate of the Collège Sainte-Marie de Montréal
1936 BA Université de Montréal
1945 BLS McGill University
Positions:
1936–1944 Accountant
1945–1949 Chief of Personnel, Montreal Civic Library (la Bibliothèque municipale de Montréal)
1949–1953 Deputy Chief Librarian, Ottawa Public Library
1953–1979 Director, Ottawa Public Library
1965–1976 Director, Eastern Ontario Regional Library System
Publications:
Aubry, Claude (1944). La Vengeance des hommes de bonne volonté. Montréal: Fides.
Aubry, Claude (1945). Miroirs déformants. Montréal: Fides.
Aubry, Claude (1957). “Shopping Centre Branch for Ottawa”. Ontario Library Review, 41, no. 4: 244–245.
Aubry, Claude (1960). Les îles du roi Maha Maha II: conte fantaisiste canadien. Illustrations by Edouard Perret. Québec: Pélican. Translation by Alice Kane Published in 1963 as The King of the Thousand Islands: a Canadian fairy tale. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart. Another edition translated by Harvey Swados. Illustrations by Grey Cohoe. Toronto: Doubleday, 1971.
Aubry, Claude (1962). Le loup de Noël. Illustrations by Edouard Perret. Montréal: Éditions Centre de psychologie et de pédagogie. Translation by Alice Kane. Published as The Christmas wolf. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1965.
Aubry, Claude (1966). “Intellectual Freedom.” Canadian Library 23, no. 3 (Nov.): 185–187.
Aubry, Claude (1968). The magic fiddler and other legends of French Canada. Graphics by Saul Field. Translated from the French by Alice E. Kane. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates.
Aubry, Claude (1972). Agouhanna. Illustrations by Julie Brinckloe. Translation by H. Swados. Toronto: Doubleday. (French edition published in 1974).
Aubry, Claude (1976). Rapport de l’étude de bibliothèques publique de la région de Montréal. With Laurent G. Denis. Québec: Ministère des affaires.
Aubry, Claude (1977). Légendes du Canada français. Les Éditions de l’Espoir.
Aubry, Claude (1999). Dites-moi, tu. Paris: Horay.
Currier, Ishbel (1968). Evergreen island, or, How Growely–Wowely made friends. Translated into French by Claude Aubry. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Suddon, Alan (1969). Cinderella: retold in story and collage. With a French translation by Claude Aubry. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Activities and honours:
1944 Prix David de la Province de Québec
1952 President, Ottawa Library Association
1962 Canadian Library Association best book for children published in French
1964 Médaille de bronze de l'Association canadienne des bibliothèques
1964–65 President, Association Canadienne des Bibliothécaires de Langue Française
1974 He was named to the Order of Canada
1974-1976, Vice-President, Canadian Authors Film Institute
Officer of the Ordre international du Bien Public (France)
Canadian Authors Association
Society of Canadian Writers
Ontario Library Association
Ontario Provincial Library Council
Alliance Française (Vice-President, Ottawa Chapter)
Association France-Canada
Member of the Board, Montfort Hospital Corp.
Accomplishments/Comments:
As an author, Claude Aubry earned thirty national and international awards. Two of his books, Le loup de Noël and Agouhanna, were translated in seventeen languages. He was named to the Order of Canada in 1974. In 1981 the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) established the Claude Aubry Award: two awards are presented biennially in recognition of his distinguished service in the field of children's literature.
Sources:
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec - Vieux-Montréal Fonds Claude-Aubry
Contemporary Authors. Gale, 2002.
Phil Jenkins (2002). The Library Book: An Overdue History of the Ottawa Public Library, 1906-2001. Ottawa: Ottawa Public Library.
Ethel Weiss Auster, n.d.
Education:
1965 AB (Boston University)
1966 MLS (Simmons College)
1972 B.Ed (University of Toronto)
1975 M.Ed (University of Toronto)
1978 Ed.D. (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1966–1969 Librarian, Brookline High School, Massachusetts
Research librarian, Toronto Board of Education
Librarian, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin -Madison:
Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
Publications:
Among her major publications are the following:
Auster, Ethel ed. The online searcher. New York: Neal-Schumman, c1990.
Auster, Ethel. Retrenchment in Canadian academic libraries. Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Library Association, c1991.
Auster, Ethel. Downsizing in academic libraries: the Canadian experience. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2004.
Auster, Ethel and Choo, Chun Wei, eds. Managing information for the competitive edge. New York: Neal-Schumann Publishers, 1996.
Associations/ Committees:
American Society for Information Science and Technology,
Canadian Association for Information Science,
Canadian Library Association, IFLA delegate,
Ontario Library Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
Chair, Committee on Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
Elected member, University of Toronto Governing Council
Miles Blackwell Award for Outstanding Academic Librarian, awarded by the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
Sources:
Globe and Mail, July 4, 2005
University of Toronto Library Catalogue
Brian Cantwell Smith
James Bain Jr. Credit Canadian Magazine May 1900
b. Aug. 2, 1842, London, England; d. May 22, 1908, Toronto, ON
Education:
Toronto Grammar School
Positions:
1883–1908, Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library
Publications:
Bain, James (1868). Sketch of the history of St. Andrew's Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons, No. 16, G. R. C., Toronto. Hamilton, Ont.: Printed at the Craftsman Office.
Bain, James, Jr. (1887). “Public Libraries in the Dominion of Canada.” Library Journal 12, no. 6 (June 1887): 217–220.
Bain, James, Jr. (1887). “Brief Review of the Libraries of Canada.” Library Journal 12, no. 9–10 (Sept.-Oct. 1887): 406–409.
Bain, James, Jr. (1893). “Lectures, Museums, Art Galleries, etc., in Connection with Libraries.” Library Journal 18, no. 7 (July 1893): 214–216.
Bain, James, Jr. (1893). “Public Libraries of the Dominion of Canada.” In Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Canada, ed. by Weston Flint, 18–20, pp. 205–213. Washington: Bureau of Education, Government Printing Office.
Bain, James, Jr. (1895). “The Libraries of Canada.” The Library; A Magazine of Bibliography and Literature, 7 (1895): 241–249 [read at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Library Association, Belfast, Sept. 1894].
Bain, James, Jr. (1897). “Public Libraries in Canada.” Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, vol. 1, parts 4-5, no. 4-5 (1897): 95–100 [read 11 Dec. 1897].
Bain, James, Jr. (1898). “Books in Branch Libraries.” Library Journal 23, no. 8 (Aug. 1898): 100–101.
Bain, James, Jr. (1898). “Public Libraries in Canada.” Canada Educational Monthly 20 (Feb. 1898): 41–48.
Bain, James, Jr. (1899). “The International Scientific Catalogue.” Proceedings of the Canadian Institute vol. 2, part 1, no. 7 (Feb. 1899): 27–29 [read 17 Dec. 1898].
Bain, James, Jr. (1899). “The Public Libraries of Canada.” In Canada: An Encyclopaedia of the Country, ed. by J. Castell Hopkins, vol. 5, pp. 207–211. Toronto: Linscott Publishing.
Bain, James, Jr. (1900). “Canadian Libraries.” Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature 16, no. 1 (Nov. 1900): 28–32.
Bain, James, Jr. (1901). “The President’s Address.” Proceedings of the Canadian Institute vol. 2, pt. 4, no. 10 (1901): 96–101 [read 18 Nov. 1900].
Bain, James, Jr. (1901). “Library Movement in Ontario.” Library Journal 26, no. 5 (May 1901): 269–270.
Bain, James, Jr. (1905). “Canadian Public Documents.” Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature 25, no. 2 (June 1905): 125–127.
Associations, Committees:
Canadian Society of Authors
Ontario Library Association
Champlain Society
Honours:
1902, DCL, Trinity University, Toronto
Accomplishments:
1900–1902 President, Canadian Institute
1901–1902 President, Ontario Library Association
1905–1907 President, St. Andrew's Society.
Other areas of activity:
1866–1878 bookseller in his father's bookstore; travelling salesman with James Campbell and Son, Toronto publishers and booksellers, and later London agent.
1878–1881 partner in J.C. Nimmo and Bain, London, England.
1881–1883 Manager, Canada Publishing Co.
1897–1900 Canadian representative, Historical Manuscripts Commission of the American Historical Association
1903–1908 Convenor, Presbyterian General Assembly's committee on sabbath-school publications.
Member, Canadian Institute; St. Andrew's Society; Muskoka Club
Sources:
"Bain, James," Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Accessed 14 August 2013.
Canadian Magazine 15 (May-Oct 1900), 31-33.
Champion, T.E. (1900). “A great librarian: the late James Bain, D.C.L.” Canadian Magazine 31 (May-Oct. 1908): 223-6.
Obituary, Toronto Star, 23 May 1908
b. Jan. 29, 1926, Edmonton, AB; d. Nov. 1, 1994, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1949 B.A.(British Columbia); 1951 M.S. (Columbia)
Positions:
1949-1950 Library Assistant, Reference Division, University of B.C.Library
1951-1954 Cataloguer, Vancouver Public Library
1954-1957 First Cataloguer, Victoria Public Library
1957-1964 Assistant University Librarian for Technical Services, University of Alberta Library
1964-1977 University Librarian, Simon Fraser University
1977-1990 University Archivist, Simon Fraser University
Publications:
Bell, Inglis F. and Donald Baird. (1958). English novel, 1578-1956: a checklist of twentieth-century criticisms.“ Denver: A. Swallow.
Associations/Committees
American Library Association
Canadian Library Association
British Columbia Library Association
Association of Canadian Archivists, President
Association of British Columbia Archivists
Honours/Accomplishments:
Association of British Columbia Archivists. Honorary Member
Association of British Columbia Archivists Newsletter, Editor
Comments
From almost the beginning of his career, Donald Baird was cast in the role of a pioneer. Recruited from the University of Alberta a year before Simon Fraser University opened its doors, he had only that year in which to create a completely new university library: overseeing the design of its building, hiring its staff, founding its collection, planning its services. He was a visionary, eager to take new approaches and particularly to implement computer-based library applications. When he decided to retire from the directorship after thirteen years of unrelenting effort, he could take satisfaction in having founded a library renowned for its service to the university and the library community in B.C. His second career as the University's archivist presented new challenges for him, and he quickly became prominent in supporting the interests of archives in the province and nation. In his capacity as President of the Association of B.C. Archivists, he was the stimulus for the writing and publication of two important documents, “A Manual for Small Archives” and a “Handbook for Records Management and College Archives”. For the Association of Canadian Archivists, he carried out surveys of university archives in Canada in 1980 and again in 1985. Ill health forced his early retirement.
Sources
Daniells, Laurenda. “Donald Baird: (1926-1994),” Archivaria 38: 249-250.
b. Jan. 7, 1938, Lincoln, Nebraska; d. Oct. 7, 2007, Vancouver
Education:
1956 Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Nebraska.
1960 BA (University of Nebraska)
1962 MLS ( University of California at Berkeley)
1977 MBA (Simon Fraser University)
Positions:
1956-1960 Library Assistant, University of Nebraska Library.
1960-1961 Library Assistant, Berkeley Public Library.
1961-1962 Library Assistant, University of California at Berkeley.
1962-1964 Head Cataloguer, San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, California.
1965-1966 Head of Technical Services, Bibliographic Center, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.
1966-1971 Head of Cataloguing, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1971-1977 Head, Cataloguing Division, Simon Fraser University Library.
1977-1982 Director, British Columbia Union Catalogue.
1983-1986 Head of Systems, Simon Fraser University Library.
1986-1990 Head, Systems and Monographs Division, Simon Fraser University Library.
1990-2002 Associate University Librarian, Simon Fraser University Library.
Publications:
Baldwin, Paul (1976). Bibliographic control problems and organizational change: issues posed by the implementation of a computer based cooperative cataloguing support system. Burnaby: Simon Fraser University. ERIC Document ED 211 121.
Baldwin, Paul (1978). “The B.C. Union Catalogue Project: background and progress report.” BCLA Reporter 21 [March-April].
Baldwin, Paul (1978). “The B.C. Union Catalogue Project: achievements, problems, and prospects.” BCLA Reporter 21 [March-April].
Baldwin, Paul (1979). “The B.C. Union Catalogue Project and the replication of the Washington Library Network System onto a B.C. Computing Centre Facility.” BCLA Reporter 22 [April-May 1979]
Baldwin, Paul, Leigh Swain, with the assistance of Marie McKee (1980). Recon alternatives for eight British Columbia public libraries, an ancillary report for the B.C. Library Network. Prepared at the Request of the Greater Vancouver Library Federation and Greater Victoria Public Library. Richmond, B.C.: B.C. Union Catalogue.
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association
Canadian Library Association
British Columbia Library Association
Honours:
Phi Beta Kappa,1960.
Regents’ Scholarship,1956-60.
Comments:
From the beginning of his career at the University of California, Berkeley, Paul Baldwin was drawn toward the technical services, particularly as they affected users. In his own words, he “…gained an abiding interest in making library catalogues more pragmatic and practical tools for providing improved access to library users.” By the time of his retirement, he had achieved this goal through the exploitation of computer technology as it was constantly evolving over the roughly forty years of his career. Five of those years were spent in establishing the British Columbia Union Catalogue, involving twenty-three university, college and public libraries, an impressive feat of administration and coordination during which card catalogues were closed, their contents converted to machine readable form (RECON) and COM (computer output microform) catalogues were introduced, as an interim step to online catalogues. Although most of his career was spent at Simon Fraser University, where the scope of his responsibilities seemed always to be expanding, Paul remained involved in provincial and national library affairs. His legacy may be found every day in the ease with which libraries and their patrons can access bibliographical information and the published materials it describes.
Sources:
Paul Baldwin’s personal career file.
“The Links 1956. 50th Reunion October 2006.” (Lincoln High School)
b. July 2, 1941, Vancouver, BC; d. Sept. 28, 2007, Paris, France
Education:
1969 HBA (Simon Fraser University)
1971 MLS (University of Western Ontario)
Positions:
1969 Joined the Cataloguing Branch of the National Library of Canada
1973 Chief, Canadian Theses Division, National Library of Canada
1976 Chief, Subject Analysis Division, National Library of Canada
1998 Staff Development Coordinator, National Library of Canada
1990 Director, Bibliographic Services, National Library of Canada
Publication:
Balatti, David (1970). Shortcomings in the Library of Congress Classification. London, Ont.: School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario. (Library and information studies; no. 11)
Balatti, David (2001). “The Canadian National Bibliography: 50 Years of Continuity and Change.” In Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age. IFLA Council and General Conference: Conference Programme and Proceedings (67th, Boston, MA, August 16-25, 2001), pp 563-567. IFLA, 2002. (PDF download).
Accomplishments and Honours:
1969 National Library of Canada Scholarship to attend the School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario
1989-1996 Member, Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee
1996-2000 Chair, Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee
2000 “Resolution in recognition of the service of David Balatti to the Decimal Classification Editorial Policy Committee,” Washington, D.C., November 30, 2000.
Comments:
We remember David's warmth, wit, and intelligence-his presence enhanced every EPC meeting. (Joan Mitchell, Editor-in-Chief, Dewey Decimal Classification, October 16, 2000)
Sources:
David Balatti obituary published by the Toronto Globe and Mail on Oct. 11, 2007.
ELA biography compiled by Ralph Manning
Katharine Lucy Ball BA portrait. Credit Torontonensis 1926
b. July 26, 1904, Toronto, ON; d. April 21, 1991, Toronto, ON
Education:
1926 BA (Toronto)
1928 BA (Oxon)
1947 BLS (Toronto)
1951 MA (Oxon)
Positions:
1928-1942 Circulation and Reference Departments, University of Toronto Library
1942-1945 Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division
1945-1951 Cataloguer, University of Toronto Library
1951-1959 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1959-1964 Associate Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1964-1970 Professor, University of Toronto, School of Library Science
1970-1991 Professor Emerita
Publications:
Ball, Katharine L. (1954). “Comparison of Library School Curricula and Degree Granting in Canada and the U.S.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 9th Annual Conference Meeting, Halifax, June 21–24, 1954, pp. 16–18. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Ball, Katharine L. (1962). “The Paris Conference.” Library Resources & Technical Services 6, no. 2 (Spring ): 172–175.
Ball, Katharine L. (1962). “International conference on cataloguing rules and principles.” Canadian Library 18, no.1 (January): 147–155.
Ball, Katharine L. (1968). “Study of Canadian Libraries: Their Resources, Performance and Development.” Canadian Library 24, no. 5 (March): 515–516.
Ball, Katharine L. et. al. comps (1968). Sample Catalogue Cards exemplifying the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules. 3rd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ball, Katharine L. (1969). “Presidential Address [CLA].” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 24th Annual Conference, St. John’s, Newfoundland, June 7–13, 1969, pp. 2–3. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Packer, Katharine H., Delores Phillips, eds., and Katharine L. Ball, supervising ed. (1969). The Code and the cataloguer: proceedings of the Colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules at the School of Library Science, University of Toronto on March 31 and April 1, 1967. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ball, Katharine L. (1970). “Accreditation of Canadian Library Schools.” Canadian Library Journal 27, no. 6 (December): 436–441.
Associations / Committees:
1954-1967 Member, Advisory Board, ALA, Catalog Code Revision Committee
1959-1960 Chair, ALA, CCS, Cataloging Policy and Research Committee
1961 Official CLA Delegate to the International Conference of Cataloguing Principles, Paris, France.
1961 Chair, Canadian Institute on Cataloguing Principles and Rules
1964-1965 Chair ALA Margaret Mann Citation Committee
Chair, CLA Cataloguing Section
Director at large, ALA, Library Education Division
Honours:
1967 Government of Canada, Centennial Medal
1969 First Canadian to be awarded the ALA Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification “for distinguished service to librarianship through international activities in cataloging, teaching, publication and participation in professional Associations in Canada and the United States”. ( Library Resources &Technical Services)
Accomplishments:
1968/69 President, Canadian Library Association
1968-1970 Chair, CLA, Cataloging and Classification Section
Member and Chair, Richmond Hill Public Library Board
First woman president, Faculty Club of the University of Toronto
Chair, Ontario Regional Group of Cataloguers.
Other areas of Activity:
By 1945, achieved the rank of Squadron Officer with the position of Staff officer in the RCAF Women's Division, with no.6 Canadian Bomber Group.
Comments:
From the Margaret Mann Citation: “ A dynamic person, with alert grasp of principles and gifted performance, she has had profound influence on cataloging theory and practice in Canada and, with charming, enthusiastic leadership has achieved agreement among Canadian and American catalogers.”
In the OLA News: She brought to her students a wise understanding of library objectives, high professional competence in her particular field of cataloguing and classification, the outstanding teacher's invaluable gift of presenting lucidly both theoretical insights and pragmatic approaches, a delightful sense of humor, and a blessed common sense.“
Sources:
Bishop, Olga. (1970). “Katharine L. Ball - a tribute.” Canadian Library Journal 27 (September- December): 342-344.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1970). “Katharine L. Ball.” OLA News 8 (4): 4.
Fraser, Lorna D. (1969). “Katharine L. Ball.” Library Resources & Technical Services 13, no. 4 (Fall): 545-548.
Obituary, Globe and Mail, April 23, 1991.
Biography file, University of Toronto, Faculty of Information.
Education:
1949 BA (Hons.) Bishop’s University
1950 MA University of Toronto
1953 PhD History (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1953-1961 Archivist, Archives of Ontario
1961-1989 Law Librarian, University of Western Ontario
1967-1974 Assistant Professor (Law), University of Western Ontario
1969-1974 Assistant Professor (Graduate History), University of Western Ontario
1974-1986 Associate Professor (Graduate History and Law), University of Western Ontario
1986-1989 Professor, University of Western Ontario
1989 Professor Emerita of Law, University of Western Ontario
Publications:
Books:
Banks, Margaret A. (1957). Edward Blake, Irish nationalist: a Canadian statesman in Irish politics, 1892-1907. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Banks, Margaret A. (1965). Toronto opinion of French Canada during the Laurier regime, 1896-1911. Toronto: University of Toronto Library, Photocopy Services. (Thesis (MA), University of Toronto, 1950).
Banks, Margaret A. (1971). Using a law library: a guide for students and lawyers in the common law provinces of Canada. London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario, School of Library and Information Science. 2nd to 4th editions published by Carswell, 1974, 1980, 1985. 5th and 6th editions published by Carswell, 1991 and 1994 under the title: Banks on using a law library: a Canadian guide to legal research. 6th edition by Margaret A. Banks and Karen E.H. Foti.
Banks, Margaret A. (1984). Law at Western, 1959-1984. London, Ont.: Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario.
Banks, Margaret A. (1988). The Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit: a history. London, Ont.: s.n. (Canadian Association of Law Libraries Newsletter, Special issue 1988).
Banks, Margaret A. (1989). The libraries at Western, 1970 to 1987: with summaries of their earlier history and a 1988 postscript. London, Ont.: University of Western Ontario.
Banks, Margaret A. (1991). Understanding Canada’s constitution: including summaries of some reports recommending changes. London, Ont.: M.A. Banks.
Jared, Eleanor C., Margaret A. Banks (1997). A short history of the Anglican Church of St. John the Divine, Arva. Arva, Ont.: Church of St. John the Divine. “Addendum 1951-1997” by Margaret A. Banks.
Banks, Margaret A. (2001). Sir John George Bourinot, Victorian Canadian: his life, times, and legacy. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Articles:
Banks, Margaret A. (1954). “Edward Blake’s relations with Canada during his Irish career, 1892-1907.” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 35: 22-42.
Banks, Margaret A. (1957). “The change in Liberal Party leadership, 1887.” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 38: 109-128.
Banks, Margaret A. (1960). “Blake, Edward.” Encyclopedia Britannica.
Banks, Margaret A. (1965). “Privy Council, Cabinet, and Ministry in Britain and Canada: a story of confusion.” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. 31: 193-205.
Banks, Margaret A. (1966). “Privy Council, Cabinet and Ministry in Britain and Canada: a reply to the comments of Mr. Forsey and Professor Lloyd.” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science, vol. 32: 90-93.
Banks, Margaret A. (1968). “Drafting the American constitution: attitudes in the Philadelphia Convention towards the British system of government.” American Journal of Legal History, vol. 10: 15-33.
Banks, Margaret A. (1967). “Edward Blake: a portrait of his childhood.” In Profiles of a province. Toronto: Ontario Historical Society: 92-96.
Banks, Margaret A. (1967). “The franchise in Britain and Canada.” University of Toronto Law Journal, vol. 17: 187-194.
Banks, Margaret A. (1969). “The voting rights of persons other than Canadian citizens in federal and provincial elections.” Western Ontario law Review, vol. 8: 147-155.
Banks, Margaret A. (1969). “Edward Blake.” Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette, vol. 3: 181-184. (Letter to the Editor, commenting on an article on Blake in the previous issue).
Banks, Margaret A. (1970). “Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister: law and practice in Upper Canada, with a summary of Post-Confederation changes.” Western Ontario Historical Notes, vol. 25, no. 2 (Spring): 1-6.
Banks, Margaret A. (1973). “Upper and Lower Canada or Canada West and East, 1841-67?” Canadian Historical Review, vol. 54: 473-480.
Banks, Margaret A. (1975) “Call me Madam Chairman!” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 16, no.4 (October): 35-37.
Banks, Margaret A. (1976). “George Warburton Spragge, 1893-1976.” Ontario History, vol. 68: 116-118.
Banks, Margaret A. (1977). “An introduction to British government documents.” International Journal of Law Libraries, vol. 5: 191-201.
Banks, Margaret A. (1977). “That elusive pocket manual of 1876: the first edition of Robert’s rules of order.” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 18, no. 4 (October): 24-29.
Banks, Margaret A. (1977). “The chair’s casting vote: some inconsistencies and problems.” University of Western Ontario Law Review, vol. 16: 197-213.
Banks, Margaret A. (1978). “The previous question, closure, and the modern notion to close debate or vote immediately.” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 19, no. 1 (January): 32-36.
Banks, Margaret A (1978). “Every member present shall vote: mandatory or directive?” Parliamentary Journal, vol.19, no. 3 (July): 6-12.
Banks, Margaret A. (1979). [Thomson’s manual of parliamentary practice, 1828] “An undetected case of plagiarism.” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (April): 1-11.
Banks, Margaret A. (1980). “The defeat of the Clark government: a study in parliamentary procedure.” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 21, no. 4 (October): 34-37.
Banks, Margaret A. (1981). “Parliamentary procedure in Canada: heredity versus environment.” Parliamentary Journal, vol. 22: 153-160. (Reprinted with an addendum in American Institute of Parliamentarians, Readings in parliamentary law, edited by Gregg Phifer. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1992: 203-212.
Banks, Margaret A (1981). “An annotated bibliography of statutes and related publications: Upper Canada, the province of Canada, and Ontario, 1792-1980.” In Essays in the history of Canadian law, vol. 1, edited by David H. Flaherty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society: 358-404.
Banks, Margaret A. (1982). Robert’s rule of orders: a multiplicity of editions and reprints.” Canadian Library Journal, vo. 39: 367-371.
Banks, Margaret A. (1983). Canada’s Banks and Banking Law Revision Act, 1980: an example of how not to draft a bill.” Canadian Association of Law Libraries Newsletter, vol. 8 (n.s.), no. 2 (March/April): 33-34.
Banks, Margaret A. (1983). “The Canada Act 1982: some facts and comments.” University of Western Ontario Law Review, vol. 21: 155-161.
Banks, Margaret A. (1983). “Citing Canada’s constitution: problems and proposed solutions.” Canadian Bar Review, vol. 61: 499-504.
Banks, Margaret A. (1983). “The evolution of the Ontario courts, 1788-1981.” In Essays in the history of Canadian law, vol. 2, edited by David H. Flaherty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Osgoode Society: 492-572.
Banks, Margaret A. (1985). “[Problems in statutory citation].” Canadian Association of Law Libraries Newsletter, vol. 10 (n.s.), no. 1 (January/February): 3-6. [Paper presented as a participant on Panel on Legal Citation, Annual Conference, Canadian Association of Law Libraries, London, Ont., May 1984].
Banks, Margaret A. (1985). “Defining ‘constitution of the province’: the crux of the Manitoba language controversy.” McGill Law Journal, vol. 31: 466-479.
Banks, Margaret A. (1988). “The Canadian Association of Law Libraries / L’Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit: beginnings.” In Law Libraries in Canada: Essays to Honour Diana M. Priestly, edited by Joan N. Fraser. Toronto: Carswell: 191-201.
Banks, Margaret A. (1988). “Ontario’s courts, 1867-1987: conflicts and confusion.” Law Society of Upper Canada Gazette, vol. 22: 110-118.
Banks, Margaret A. (1988). “Robert’s rules of order: editions, reprints, and competitors.” Law Library Journal, vol. 80: 177-192.
Banks, Margaret A. (1990). “If the Queen were to abdicate: procedure under Canada’s constitution.” Alberta Law Review, vol. 28: 535-539.
Banks, Margaret A. (1992). “New insights on Bourinot’s parliamentary publications.” Canadian Parliamentary Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Spring): 19-25.
Banks, Margaret A. (1993). “Adventures of a retired law librarian: writing a biography of Sir George Bourinot.” Ex Libris News, no. 14 (Fall): 16-18.
Banks, Margaret A. (1993). “Bourinot’s assessment of Canadian libraries in the late nineteenth century.” Épilogue, vol. 8: 65-67.
Banks, Margaret A. (1994). “Bourinot: a student of Robert.” National Parliamentarian, vol. 55, First Quarter: 36-37.
Banks, Margaret A. (1994). “Bourinot, Sir John George.” In Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XIII (1901 to 1910). Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 98-102.
Associations/Committees:
1961-1963 Founding member of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries
1964-1966 Treasurer, Canadian Association of Law Libraries
1989 Honoured Member, Canadian Association of Law Libraries
Member, American Association of Law Libraries
Member, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Member, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto
Member, National Association of Parliamentarians (U.S.A.). Joined in 1972. Qualified as a registered parliamentarian in 1973, a professional registered parliamentarian in 1984.
Member, American Institute of Parliamentarians. Qualified as a certified parliamentarian in 1977, and as a certified professional parliamentarian in 1982.
1990-1995 Chair, Opinions Committee, American Institute of Parliamentarians
Honours:
1949 Lieutenant Governor's Medal for History and the Governor General's Medal for Highest Standing in the Graduating Year.
1999 President’s Award, Ontario Occupational Health Nurses Association, for services relating to procedure at meetings.
Comments:
Margaret Banks was the second Law Librarian at the library of the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law. She also held a faculty appointment at Law – the first female to achieve this position – and another in the department of history. She was “the Doyenne of Canada’s law librarians” and made numerous contributions to the law library profession, including writing a history of the Canadian Law Library Association. She was a meticulous scholar, a noted authority on parliamentary procedures, and the author of numerous books and articles relating to law and parliamentary procedures.
“For the first two-thirds of the [University of Western Ontario] law school’s life, Margaret was one of the most important people in the school, said Ian Holloway, Dean of Western Law. The Law Library has an ethos of service and support that is rare today, and that ethos originated with Margaret. Her dedication to the school's interests was unwavering. She was an authority on the law and custom of parliament, and during her career she had occasion to be consulted by the Speakers of both the House of Commons
“Her contribution to the University of Western Ontario … was recognized by the creation of the Margaret A. Banks Room in the Law School library. Her portrait, which presides over the room, was a gift of the Carswell Company on the occasion of her retirement and was given to the Law School in recognition of her contribution to Carswell and to the legal profession.”
Sources:
Canadian Who’s Who, vol. 37, 2002.
“Margaret A. Banks (1928-2010).” SLAW, May 3, 2010. Accessed May 5, 2016.
Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History. Oral History: Professor Margaret Banks 1987 is found in the Ontario Archives under the code: C81-1-0-58.
Winifred Barnstead BA graduate portrait. Credit Dalhousie University
b. Oct. 6, 1884, Halifax, NS; d. June 5, 1985, Toronto, ON
Education:
1906 BA (Dalhousie University)
Positions:
1906–1907 Library Clerk, Westmount Public Library, Montreal
1907–1908 Teacher, Musquodobit Primary School, Nova Scotia
1908–1910 Cataloguer, Princeton University Library
1910–1928 Chief of the Cataloging Department, Toronto Public Library
1916–1928 Instructor, Ontario Department of Education, Library School
1928–1951 Director, University of Toronto Library School (jointly appointed as Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, receiving tenure in 1944)
1951–1974 Director Emeritus, School of Library Science, University of Toronto
Publications:
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1912). “Expansion of Dewey Decimal System for Canada,” in Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 1912, pp. 76–79. Toronto: King's Printer.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1918). Filing Rules for Dictionary Catalogues. Toronto: King's Printer.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1936).“A New Degree Course in Library Science,” Ontario Library Review 20, no. 4: 146–147.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1944). Librarian: Canadian Census Classification Professional Service. Toronto: Distributed by Vocational Guidance Centre, National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1945). “Recruitment for Librarianship.” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 1, no. 4 (April): 37.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1947). “General Training in Librarianship and in the Field of Special Library Work,” in Special Libraries Association Regional Conference Proceedings, King Edward Hotel, Toronto, Oct. 17-18, 1947, vol. 1, pp.2–5. Toronto?: Special Libraries Association.
Barnstead, Winifred G. (1960). “A Tribute to American Librarians,” ALA Bulletin 54, no. 4: 280–281.
Associations/Committees:
Ontario Library Association
Ontario Regional Group of Cataloguers, founding member in 1927
Canadian Library Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
1958 Winifred G. Barnstead Scholarship was established by the Library Science Alumni Association
1972 Awarded an honorary LLD by the University of Toronto.
Other Areas of Activity:
Barnstead founded the Ontario Regional Group of Cataloguers in 1927, the first professionally oriented group in Canada. She also sought to improve the professional and social standing of librarians in the province by attempting to introduce certification and advocating for improved salaries.
Comments:
Dr. Barnstead was the first Director of the University of Toronto Library School.
“To the graduate of the library school jointly established in 1928 by the Ontario Department of Education and the University of Toronto, Miss Barnstead is the honoured 'director' and 'director emeritus.' Her drive, philosophy of library education and statesmanship launched the School and before her retirement had attained for it accreditation by the Board of Education of the American Library Association and the Bachelor's and the Master's degrees in Library Science.
There are many who think of “W.G.B.” more personally – hospitality in the Nova Scotia tradition, at home, at the golf course, at the restaurant – moments enlivened by anecdote and salty observations – visits to the Grange – Hart House Theatre – kindnesses during illness and difficult moments – a readiness to explore new fields and find new solutions. In all, two generations of trained librarians owe her allegiance.” — Canadian Library Association Bulletin, Dec. 1954
Sources:
Bassam, Bertha. “Education of Librarians is put in Historical Perspective.” Canadian Library Journal 36, no. 3 (June 1979): 77–86.
Bassam, Bertha. The Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto and Its Predecessors, 1911–1972. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science in association with the Library Science Alumni Association, 1978.
Bruce, Lorne D. Places to Grow: Public Libraries and Communities in Ontario, 1930–2000, 2011.
Robert H. Blackburn, “Winifred Glen Barnstead, 1884–1985.” Focus (Ontario Library Association) 11, no. (1985): 16–17.
“Pioneers! 0 pioneers!” [W.G.B.]. Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 11, no. 3 (Dec. 1954): 106.
University of Toronto Archives
ELA biography compiled by Agatha Barc
Bertha Bassam with LLD regalia 1965. Credit University of Waterloo
Education:
1922 BA (Queen's University)1923 BLS (Pratt Institute School of Library Science)
1942 MS (Columbia University)
Positions:
Cataloguer, Princeton University Library Cataloguer, Queen's University Library 1924–1928 Classifier and Reviser, Columbia University Library1928–1932 Lecturer, University of Toronto Library School
1932–1945 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1942–1943 Assistant Professor and Acting Director, University of Toronto Library School
1945–1951 Associate Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1951–1953 Associate Professor and Director, University of Toronto Library School
1953–1964 Professor and Director, University of Toronto Library School
1964–1989 Professor and Director Emerita, University of Toronto School of Library Science
Publications:
Bassam, Bertha (1940). “The Public Catalogue.” Ontario Library Review 24, no. 2 (May): 137–141.Bassam, Bertha (1942). “The Teaching of Subject Cross References.” M.L.S. thesis, Columbia University, Library School.
Bassam, Bertha (1943). “Library services for Canada.” Canadian Forum 24 (11): 257.
Bassam, Bertha (1943). “New Trends in Library Training [Synopsis].” Bulletin of the Toronto Chapter, Special Libraries Association 3, no. 1 (Jan.): 2–3.
Bassam, Bertha, ed. (1944). Librarian: Canadian Census Classification Professional Service. Toronto: Distributed by Vocational Guidance Centre, National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
Bassam, Bertha (1946). “What lies ahead for Canada?” Library Journal 71 (June): 882–883.
Bassam, Bertha (1961). “An estimate of space required for the Library School for the next ten years.” Toronto: University of Toronto Library School.
Bassam, Bertha (1968). The first printers and newspapers in Canada. Toronto: School of Library Science..
Bassam, Bertha (1976). Developments in Canadian librarianship. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science.
Bassam, Bertha (1978). The Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto and its predecessors, 1911–1972. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science in association with the Library Science Alumni Association.
Bassam, Bertha (1979). “Education of librarians is put in historical perspective.” Canadian Library Journal 36 (June): 77–86.
Associations/Committees:
1960 President, Canadian Library Association Committee Member, Ontario Library Association, Preparation of: Library Needs of the Province of Ontario: A Brief Submitted to the Minister of Education, Province of Ontario, March 30, 1944.Honours/Accomplishments:
1989 Distinguished Honorary Graduate Awarded by the Faculty of Library and Information Science1964 The Bertha Bassam Lecture in Librarianship was established by the Library Science Alumni Association 1965 LLD, University of Waterloo
Other Areas of Activity:
Bassam introduced the first Master of Library Science program in Canada.Her main objectives as the Director of the University of Toronto Library School were to establish it as a separate teaching division of the University and to secure new quarters. The cornerstone for the new quarters was laid in 1965.
Sources:
Bassam, Bertha. “Education of Librarians is put in historical perspective.” Canadian Library Journal 36.3 (June 1979): 77–86.Bassam, Bertha. The Faculty of Library Science University of Toronto and Its predecessors, 1911–1972.
Toronto: Faculty of Library Science in association with The Library Science Alumni Association, 1978.
Bruce, Lorne D. Places to grow: public libraries and communities in Ontario, 1930–2000, 2010.
“Congratulations.” Ex Libris News: Newsletter of the Ex Libris Association, Fall 1989(6): 13–14.
ELA biography compiled by Agatha Barc
Education:
1956 A.I.Q.S. Intermediate (Hammersmith Sch. of Architecture and Building)1963 ALA (Northwestern Polytechnic School of Librarianship); 1971 FLA (Library Association)
Positions:
1958-1964 Quantity Surveyor Godfrey & Burgess, London, Eng.1964-1966 Librarian-in-Charge Haringey, London, Eng.
1966-1972 Reference Librarian, Calgary Public Library
1972-1975 Director of Systems and Management Services, North York Public Library
1975-1995 Chief Executive Officer, Scarborough Public Library
Publications:
Bassnett, Peter J. (1970). “Spatial and administrative relationships in large public libraries [microform] an investigation into the planning of municipal libraries serving populations exceeding one hundred thousand.” Thesis (F.L.A.) Library Association.Bassnett, Peter J. (1972). “Library Research in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 29, no. 4: 307–309.
Bassnett, Peter J. (1980). A Review of charges for public library services: some implications and an approach to a resolution. Scarborough, ON: Scarborough Public Library.
Bassnett, Peter J. (1981). “Implications: charges for public library service.” Canadian Library Journal, 38 (April): 57-63.
Bassnett, Peter J. (1982). Ontario public libraries: the provincial role in a triad of responsibilities: the report of the Ontario Public Libraries Programme Review for the Minister of Citizenship and Culture. Toronto [s.n].
Bassnett, Peter J. (1985). ”Mission, dollars, service: an exchange of perspectives: a conference for public librarians, publishers and wholesalers, Toronto, September 26th and 27th, 1985.” Data collected and prepared from the membership of the Council of Administrators of Large Urban Public Libraries. [s.l: s.n].
Bassnett, Peter J. (1986). Canadian public libraries, public policy and the political process: an Ontario experience. [s.l: s.n].
Associations / Committees:
1952-1954 Served with the RAF1980-1982 Executive. Coordinator, Ontario Public Libraries Programme Review for the Ontario Minister of Citizenship and Culture
1968-1969 President, Alberta Library Association
Member: Library Association (UK), Private Libraries Association; The Powys Society
Honours:
On June 25, 2009, a room in the Goldhawk Branch of the Scarborough Library was named the Peter J. Bassnett Meeting Room in Peter’s honour.Peter J. Bassnett Award for Professional Development. “Recognizes Peter’s contribution to the development of public library services by supporting library staff pursuing a career in public libraries and rewarding eligible staff for outstanding achievement in the areas of library information studies, public administration and/or management studies.”
Accomplishments:
At Scarborough he built seven new branches and introduced computer technology into the system and introduced multilingual services, including the development of a Chinese language catalogue. “Peter was a strong voice for effective public library service in Ontario. He was appointed to oversee the Ontario Public Libraries Review in 1980 and travelled across Ontario. His recommendations laid the ground for the 1984 Ontario Public Libraries Act… Supporters … described him as ‘forward thinking’ in that he believed that to be effective, Ontario public libraries must work together and connect their technologies in order to share information.The Committee, chaired by Peter J. Bassnett, undertook a major review of the province’s public library services under the existing Act and prepared a report, known as The Bassnett Report, that led to new legislation. The recommendations would ensure that the people of Ontario would continue to have one of the best public library systems anywhere, and they helped form a major part of the province's new Public Libraries Act.
Sources:
Canadian Who's Who, 1984, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. “Bassnett, Peter J.” p. 67.Toronto Public Library.Briefing Note: About Peter J. Bassnett. PDF accessed June 18, 2013.
University of Toronto Library catalogue.
Peter Bassnett, Globe and Mail, September 1, 2008 [accessed April 14, 2024] Agatha Barc
Nora Bateson, n.d. Credit “Our Activist Past”
Education:
1917 BA (Hons. History) Manchester1929 Diploma in Librarianship Pratt
1933 MA (Hist.) McGill University
Positions:
1920 Teacher, Kings Hall, Compton, Quebec1922-1928 Library Clerk, Ontario Legislative Library
1929 McGill University Library Summer School
1929-1930 Reference Librarian, University of British Columbia Library
1931 Librarian, Chilliwack Branch, Fraser Valley Library Demonstration
1932-1933 Professor, McGill University Library School
1933-1936 Director, Prince Edward Island Library Demonstration
1936-1938 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
1938-1945 Director of Libraries, Nova Scotia
1945-1947 Director of Home Reading Department, Detroit Public Library
1947-1948 Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Library School
1948-1953 Acting Director & Director, New Zealand Library School
Publications (major contributions):
Bateson, Nora (1936). The Carnegie library demonstration in Prince Edward Island. Canada, 1933-1936.Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Prince Edward Island Libraries.
Bateson, Nora (with J.J.Tompkins). (1936?). Why not a co-operative library? Antigonish, N.S.: Extension Department, St. Francis Xavier University.
Bateson, Nora (1938). Library survey of Nova Scotia. [Halifax, N.S.]: Department of Education.
Bateson, Nora (1944). Livres pour aujourd'hui et demain. [Ottawa]: Conseil canadien des bibliothèques.
Bateson, Nora (1944). Rural Canada needs libraries. [Ottawa]: Canadian Library Council.
Bateson, Nora (1945). Library plan for Jamaica. Kingston, [Jamaica]: Government Printer.
Publications (minor contributions):
Bateson, Nora (1931). The Fraser Valley book van. Library Journal v.56, p.59-62 Bateson, Nora (1934). Prince Edward Island's demonstration. ALA Bulletin v.28, p.633-637Bateson, Nora (1934). Prince Edward Island's demonstration. Ontario Library Review v.18, no.3, p.111-114
Bateson, Nora (1935). Library work in Prince Edward Island. Ontario Library Review v.19, no.3, p.109-110
Bateson, Nora (1936). The burning bush in Nova Scotia. Landward, Autumn, p.3, 7, 11
Bateson, Nora (1937). Latest survey of libraries in Canada. ALA Bulletin v.31, no.2, p.85-86
Bateson, Nora (1938). Labor and the library in Nova Scotia. [letter]. ALA Bulletin v.33, no.3, p.216
Bateson, Nora (1939). Regional libraries. Ontario Library Review v.23, no.2, p.117-18
Bateson, Nora (1939). Regional libraries for Nova Scotia. Ontario Library Review v.23, no.2, p.177-179
Bateson, Nora (1940). Laying library foundations in Nova Scotia. ALA Bulletin v.34, no.5, p.312
Bateson, Nora (1942). A library for our fighting forces. Public Affairs Spring, p.131-133
Bateson, Nora (1943). Maritime Library Association. Ontario Library Review v.27, no.2, p.130-131
Bateson, Nora (1943). Libraries for today and tomorrow. Food for Thought v.3, no.5, p.12-19
Bateson, Nora (1943). Reading pursuits and possibilities. Food for Thought v.3, no.6, p.13-17
Bateson, Nora (1945). Today the minds of men. Library Journal v.70, p.997-999
Bateson, Nora (1946). Countrywide library service: Why not? Canadian Forum 26, p.90-91
Bateson, Nora (1949). Audio visual developments in libraries abroad. New Zealand Library Association. 18th Conference, Dunedin, p.23-25
Associations/Committees
Maritime Library Institute and Maritime Library AssociationAmerican Library Association Extension Committee
Canadian Library Council
New Zealand Library Association
Honours:
A scholarship at the New Zealand Library School is named in her memory. Prince Edward Island has established the Nora Bateson Award for Excellence in Library Service.Accomplishments:
Nora Bateson directed the PEI Library Demonstration Project, which established more than 20 public libraries in the province during the period 1933-1936. She had an enduring passion for adult education and ensured that the rural libraries' role included supporting the adult study clubs that were flourishing at the time. In 1938, she conducted a library survey of Nova Scotia, and later that year was invited to be the Director of Libraries for the Regional Libraries Commission of the province. During the Second World War, Bateson and her assistant Marion Gilroy were seconded to the Canadian Legion Education Service to establish libraries for armed forces personnel in the Atlantic Command. In 1944, she was asked to undertake a library survey of Jamaica, which became the foundation for the country's public library system. She was also an active member of the committee set up to investigate the establishment of a national library association for Canada (resulting in the founding of the Canadian Library Association in 1946). After two years in charge of the Home Reading Department of the Detroit Public Library, she went on to the New Zealand Library School (1947-1953) where she first served as Senior Lecturer, then Acting Director and Director for several years.Sources:
Research at Library and Archives Canada, Prince Edward Island Archives, Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Archives of Ontario, McGill University Archives, St. Francis Xavier University Archives, Cape Breton University Archives (Beaton Institute). Obit. Halifax Chronicle Herald, January 26, 1956.Memorials: MLA Bulletin v.29, NO.2, p.20; CLA Bulletin v.12, no.6, p.232-234 Marion Gilroy (1956). “Nora Bateson.” Food for Thought 16: 242–244. Sue Adams (2009). “Our Activist Past: Nora Bateson, Champion of Regional Libraries.” Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 4, no. 1: 1–12.
ELA biography compiled by Sue Adams
b. 1932, Northumberland, U.K; d. Feb.11, 2013, Silver Springs, Md.
Education:
1954 Durham University
1960 Associate of the Library Association of Great Britain
1963 Fellow of the Library Association of Great Britain
Positions:
1956-1962 Librarian in various British special, academic and special libraries
1962 Lecturer, Birmingham School of Librarianship; followed by College of Librarianship, Wales, as Head, Department of Information Retrieval Services
1967 Visiting Lecturer, Summer School, School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Maryland
1971 Visiting Professor, McGill School of Library and Information Science
1972-1976 Professor, McGill School of Library and Information Science
University of Maryland and Catholic University
Publications:
Batty, C.D. (1965). An introduction to the Dewey decimal classification. London: C Bingley.
Batty, C. D. (1966). An introduction to colon classification. London: C. Bingley.
Batty, C.D., ed. (1966). The library and the machine: selected papers and discussions from a study conference held at Nottingham, 19-22 April 1966 on library applications of computers and data processing equipment. Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire: Library Association (Northern Midland Branch).
Batty, C.D. (1967). An introduction to the seventeenth edition of the Dewey decimal classification. London: C. Bingley.
Batty, C.D. ed. (1967). Libraries and machines today: a sequel to the library and the machine; proceedings of a 24-hour computer workshop held at Nottingham, 19-20 April 1967. London: Library Association (North Midland Branch).
Batty, C.D. (1968). Narrative evaluation report on the Institute for the Automatic Service at School Library and Information Services, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 10-21 June 1968. Arlington, Va.: Eric Reproduction Service.
Batty, C.D. (1971). An introduction to the eighteenth edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification. London: C. Bingley.
Batty, C.D. (1981). An introduction to the nineteenth edition of the Dewey decimal classification. London: C. Bingley.
Batty, C.D. (1992). An introduction to the twentieth edition of the Dewey decimal classification. Albany, N.Y.: Forest Press.
Batty, C.D. (2001). Transportation Research Thesaurus and user`s guide [electronic resource]. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Association/Committees:
1974/1975 President of l’Association des bibliothécaires du Québec/Quebec Library Association.
Founder of consulting company CDB Enterprises, specializing I Information systems and library design.
Comments:
“David was a prolific author, publishing 75 articles and numerous books, including several editions of his Introduction to the Dewey Decimal Classification and an Introduction to the Colon Classification. Computer assisted cataloguing and indexing were major research concerns.”
“In 1972, he joined the School`s full-time faculty as a professor, teaching in the areas of data processing, systems analysis, cataloguing and classification, information science and communication media. His consulting company, CDB Enterprises, specialized in information systems and library design.”
“David was a Renaissance man whose interests included cooking, gardening and theology. Music was a particular interest, playing the guitar and composing. Among his lyrics was this refrain to his library sea shanty: Brockhaus, Britannica, Espasa, Larousse! All hands to the Winchells! The Cutter`s broke loose!”
Sources:
Peter F. McNally, Professor and Director, History of McGill Project.
Margaret Lilas Armstrong BA portrait, 1946. Credit Western University
Education:
BA 1946 Western University (Waterloo College, now Wilfrid Laurier University)
BLS 1949 University of Toronto
MLS 1969 University of Toronto
Positions:
1946-50 Teacher, Blind River, Ont.
1949-50 Children's Librarian, Galt Public Library
1950-51 Cataloguer, University of Western Ontario
1959-1964 Head, Cataloguing Department, University of Waterloo
1964-1966 Director, Technical Services, University of Waterloo
1966-1971 Systems Librarian , University of Guelph
1970-1971 Deputy Chief Librarian, University of Guelph
1970- Lecturer on Library Design, School of Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario
1971-1984 Chief Librarian, University of Guelph, McLaughlin Library
1984-1988 Executive Director for Technology, University of Guelph
Publications (selected):
Beckman, Margaret (1961). “Experiment in the Use of the Revised Code of Cataloguing Rules.” Library Resources & Technical Services 5 (3): 216–220.
Beckman, Margaret (1964). “Why Not the Bobbsey Twins?” Library Journal 89, no. 20 (Nov. 15): 4612–4613, 4627.
Beckman, Margaret (1965). “Size and Library Research Collections.” Atlantic Provinces Library Association Bulletin 29 (4): 143–149.
Beckman, Margaret (1966). “A Documentation Center at the University of Guelph Library.” Ontario Library Review 50, no. 4 (Dec.): 226–229.
Beckman, Margaret (1968). Derivation of a Simulation Model of a University Library System. Guelph, Ont. University. Library. Research Report, No.1. Guelph, Ont.: University of Guelph Library, 1968.
Beckman, Margaret (1969). Documentation System for the Organization of Government Publications within a University Library. Research Report - Library, University of Guelph; No. 2. [Guelph, Ont.]: Library, University of Guelph. [PDF download]
Beckman, Margaret and Stephen Langmead (1970). New library design: guidelines to planning academic library buildings. Toronto: John Wiley.
Beckman, Margaret (1973). “Woman: Her Place in the Profession.” IPLO Quarterly 14, no. 4 (April): 129–134.
Beckman, Margaret (1974). “Library Networks in the `70’s: University Libraries.” Canadian Library Journal 31 (3): 197–198.
Beckman, Margaret (1978). “Automated Cataloguing Systems and Networks in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 35 (3): 173–180.
Beckman, Margaret, and Tim Sauer (1980). “On-Line Acquisitions/Circulation Interfaces at the University of Guelph.” Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 4, no. 1: 19–28.
Beckman, Margaret (1981). “Public Access at the University of Guelph Library,” pp. 37–48. In Public Access to Library Automation. Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing [17th, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1980], edited by J.L. Divilbiss. Urbana, Illinois: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1981.
Beckman, Margaret (1981). “Political Setting of Libraries in Post-Secondary Institutions.” Canadian Library Journal 38, no. 3 (June): 145–147
Beckman, Margaret, Stephen Langmead and John Black (1984). The best gift: a record of the Carnegie libraries in Ontario. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
Beckman, Margaret (1987). “Online Catalog Development at the University of Guelph,” Library Trends 35 (4): 527–537.
Beckman, Margaret and Ellen M. Pearson (1992). “ Understanding the needs of users: the timeliness factor.” Essen Symposium, 307–320.
Beckman, Margaret and John B. Black (1996).“The local library within the worldwide context: changes, directions, realities.” Essen Symposium, 78–87.
Associations/Committees:
1960-1968 Trustee, Waterloo Public Library Board (Chair, 1966-68)
1964-1968 Chair, Midwestern Regional Library Board
1964-1968 Chair, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries Committee on Academic Status
1964-1965 Chair, Ontario Resources and Technical Services Group, Ontario Library Association
1966 Chair, OLA Committee on Legislation and Grants
1968-1969 Member, Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada Special Taskforce on Automation
Member, Ontario Council of Health, Sub-committee on Information Services
Member: ALA, CLA, ASIS, IPLO, CAIS, LARC
Honours:
1975 Province of Ontario recognized her as one of 25 outstanding Ontario women
1986 Association of Colleges and Research Libraries Academic/Research Librarian of the Year (first Canadian to win the award)
1987 Award of Merit, Ontario College and University Library Association
1987 Honorary Doctorate, University of Western Ontario
1989 Distinguished Academic Library Award, Canadian Association of Colleges and Universities
1990 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Laurentian University
1991 University of Western Ontario established the Margaret Beckman Gold Medal in Library and Information Science for the highest Academic student standing
1990 Honorary Professor, University of Essen, Germany (first Canadian and first woman to receive such an honour
1990 Information technology and library management: 13th Essen Symposium: Festschrift in honour of Margaret Beckman. Papers presented at the International Essen Symposium (13th, Universität Essen Bibliothek, October 22-25, 1990)
2007 Honoured by the City of Waterloo for leadership contributions
Accomplishments:
Chair, National Research Council of Canada, Advisory Board on Scientific and Technical Information
President, Ex Libris Association, 1999
President, Canadian Library Association, 1972-73
Canadian representative at several UNESCO Library Buildings Conferences
Designed the CODOC documentation system
Developed the GEAC library system
Lectured and acted as consultant to library planners in academic, government, school and public libraries throughout Canada, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Saudi Arabia and Sweden.
Comments:
“In the early 1950's pregnant with her first child, she 'hid' in the basement of a university library cataloguing books, because pregnant employees were supposed to be fired. It was a humble beginning for the woman who would go on to become the chief librarian of the University of Guelph's McLaughlin Library in 1971. As the only woman heading up a university library in Ontario at the time, she was a pioneer.” Also, she was internationally known for her work in library planning, innovation in library management and the introduction of technology into libraries. She became internationally respected for her work in library management, automation and building design. She convinced committees and boards that librarians were a valuable and knowledgeable resource when it came to input for building modern library facilities. She saw automation as a valuable path for the future of libraries and led the way. She worked with architects on a new library building and pursued her vision of an automated library system despite critics who believed automation was nothing more than an 'expensive toy'. During her career she spoke and published widely acting as a consultant in the design of libraries throughout Canada and the world. She was the 1st Canadian and 1st woman to receive an honorary professorship from the University of Essen, Germany, and the first Canadian to receive the American Academic Librarian of the Year Award. She served on a number of provincial, national and international library bodies as a member, advisor or on the executive.”
— Famous Canadian Women, https://www.famouscanadianwomen/job/academics.htm
Sources:
Margaret Armstrong Beckman (accessed April 2023)
“M. Beckman, Executive Director, Information Technology” [appointment] Guelph University News Bulletin 28 (20), June 17, 1984. [PDF dowload]
The Kitchener Record, March 1, 2008.
Clare Beghtol, 2001 Credit Knowledge Organization
b. Feb. 15, 1942, Lincoln, Nebraska; d. Mar. 3, 2018, Toronto ON
Education:
1963 BA (English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
Graduate Studies in American Civilization (Brown University)
1981 MLS (University of Toronto)
1991 PhD (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1967- Teacher, Sir George Williams University (now Concordia University)
1969- Editor, Copp Clark, Toronto
1971-1978 Freelance editor and writer
1981- Chief Cataloguer/Indexer, Research Unit, CBC-TV Current Affairs
1987-1992 Director of Research, Ketchum Canada Inc.
1993-1998 Tenure-track position, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
1998- 2002 Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
2002-2004 Associate Dean, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
2007-2009 Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
2009-2018 Professor Emeritus
Publications (selected):
Books:
Beghtol, Clare (1994). The classification of fiction: the development of a system based on theoretical principles. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994.
Beghtol, Clare, Lynne C. Howarth, and Nancy J. Williamson, eds. (2000). Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: proceedings of the sixth International ISKO Conference, 10-13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada. Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag.
Williamson, Nancy J., and Clare Beghtol, eds. (2003). Knowledge organization and classification in international information retrieval. Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Information Press. Also published as Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 37, no.1/2.
Book Chapters:
Beghtol, Clare (2001). “Relationships in classificatory structure and meaning.” In Relationships in the organization of knowledge, edited by Carol A. Bean and Rebecca Green, 99-111. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.
Beghtol, Clare (2002. “Cataloging and knowledge organization.” In Encyclopedia of communication and information, v. 1, 117-122. Woodbridge, Conn.: Macmillan Reference USA.
Beghtol, Clare (2006). “The facet concept as a universal principle of subdivision.” In Knowledge organization, information systems and other essays: Professor A Neelameghan Festschrift, edited by K.S. Raghavan and K.N. Prasad, 41-52. New Delhi: Ess Ess Publications.
Journal Articles:
Beghtol, Clare (1986). “Bibliographic classification theory and text linguistics: aboutness analysis, intertextuality and the cognitive act of classifying documents.” Journal of Documentation 42, no. 2 (June): 84–113.
Beghtol, Clare (1986). “Semantic validity: concepts of warrant in bibliographic classification systems.” Library Resources and Technical Services 30: 109-125.
Beghtol, Clare (1986). “The gender gap in library education and publication.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 27, no. 1 (July): 12–30.
Beghtol, Clare (1989). “Retrieval effectiveness: theory for an experimental methodology measuring user-perceived value of search outcome.” Libri 39, no. 1: 18–35.
Beghtol, Clare (1990-1991). “Access to fiction: a problem in classification theory and practice. Parts I and II.” International classification 16: 123-140 and 17: 21- 27.
Beghtol, Clare (1995). “Domain analysis, literary warrant, and consensus: the case of fiction studies.” Journal of the American Society for Information Science 46, no. 1 (January): 30–44.
Beghtol, Clare (1995). “Within, among, between: three faces of interdisciplinarity.” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 20, no. 2 (July): 30–41.
Beghtol, Clare (1995). “‘Facets’ as interdisciplinary undiscovered public knowledge: S. R. Ranganathan in India and L. Guttman in Israel.” Journal of Documentation 51, no. 3 (September): 194–224.
Beghtol, Clare (1997). “‘Itself an education’: classification systems, theory, and research in the information studies curriculum.” Technical Services Quarterly 15, no. 1-2 (September): 89–107.
Beghtol, Clare (1997). “Stories: applications of narrative discourse analysis to information storage and retrieval problems for works in the Arts, Humanities, and other disciplines.” Knowledge Organization 24: 64-71.
Beghtol, Clare (1998). “Knowledge domains: multidisciplinarity and bibliographic classification systems.” Knowledge Organization 25:1-12.
Beghtol, Clare (2001). “In interesting times: from the twentieth century to the twenty-first.” American Archivist 64: 143-158.
Beghtol, Clare (2001). “Knowledge representation and organization in the Iter bibliography: a web-based digital library for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Knowledge Organization 28, no.4: 170-179.
Beghtol, Clare (2002). “A proposed ethical warrant for global knowledge representation and organization systems.” Journal of Documentation 58, no. 5 (October): 507–532.
Beghtol, Clare (2003). “Classification for information retrieval and classification for knowledge discovery: relationships between “professional” and “naïve” classifications.” Knowledge Organization 30: 64-73.
Morris, Jane, Clare Beghtol, and Graeme Hirst (2003). “Term relationships and their contribution to text semantics and information literacy through lexical cohesion.” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science 27, no. 3 (September): 140–141.
Beghtol, Clare (2004). “Exploring new approaches to the organization of knowledge: the subject classification of James Duff Brown. Special Issue. Pioneers in Library and Information Science.” Library Trends 52, no. 4: 702-718.
Beghtol, Clare (2004). “The Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: collaboration between information specialists and subject specialists in the Arts and Humanities.” Journal of Digital Information Management 2, no. 1 (March): 4-9.
Zins, Chaim, Anthony Debons, Clare Beghtol, et al. (2007). “Knowledge map of information science: implications for the future of the field.” Brazilian Journal of Information Science 1, no.1: 3-29.
Beghtol, Clare (2008). “From the universe of knowledge to the universe of concepts: the structural revolution in classification for information retrieval.” Axiomathes 18: 131-144.
Beghtol, Clare (2008). “Professional values and ethics in knowledge organization and cataloging.” Journal of Information Ethics 17, no. 1: 12-19.
Beghtol, Clare (2010). “Nancy J. Williamson and the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 48, no. 1:26-35.
Associations/Committees:
Acting Editor-in-Chief, Knowledge Organization,1999-2000
Chair, American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group/Classification Research (SIG/CR), 1993-1994
President, International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), 1998-2002
Member, Universal Decimal Classification Advisory Board
Member, American Library Association
Member, Canadian Library Association
Comments:
“Beghtol was a scholar of classification theory and one of the top theorists world wide.”
“It can be said that she is the leading classification theorist in North America” wrote her colleague, Nancy Williamson.
“Her areas of research and publication include[d] classification theory, the relationship of conceptual universals to cultural warrant, subject access systems and the relationship of interdisciplinarity to information systems and services.”
When Beghtol retired from the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto in 2009, academics honoured her in a special issue of “Knowledge Organization” 37 (2) 2010. Lynne C. Howarth, a colleague, who authored this festschrift, wrote “Beghtol’s research and theoretical writings have been important in and to the development of the field of knowledge organization, and have exerted a palpable influence, such that Beghtol would appear to align with the definition of “pioneer”.
“Dean Wendy Duff [Faculty of Information, University of Toronto] remembered co-teaching one of her very first classes with Beghtol, who, she said, “discussed the theories of classification with brilliance and clarity. She was the most amazing scholar and a deeply caring human being. One could not have had a better role model.”
In her spare time, Beghtol also wrote poetry. The journal Atlantis published two of her poems in 1980: “On the significance of cats”, and “Ice wind”.
Sources:
Williamson, Nancy J. (2010). ``Clare Begtol: teacher, researcher and theoretician.” Knowledge Organization 37, no 2: 101-105.
Haworth, Lynne C. (2010). “Clare Beghtol: exploring new approaches to the organization of knowledge.” Knowledge Organization 37, no. 2: 95-100.
Beghtol, Clare (2001). “Knowledge representation and organization in the Iter bibliography: a web-based digital library for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.” Knowledge Organization 28, no.4: 170.
Margaret Lilas Armstrong BA portrait, 1946. Credit Western University
Olga B. Bishop BA portrait. Credit Mount Allison University Yearbook 1938
b. June 24, 1911, Dover, NB; d. Jan.11, 2002, London, ON
Mary J.L. Black, c.1908 Credit Thunder Bay Historical Society Papers
b. Apr. 1, 1879, Uxbridge, ON; d. Jan. 4, 1939, Vancouver, BC
Education:
Received informal `homeschooling` in her youth
Attended (but did not complete) the first Ontario Department of Education one-month summer training course for librarianship at Toronto in June 1911
Positions:
1909-1937 Chief Librarian, Fort William Public Library
1917 Lecturer, Department of Education two-month training course in librarianship
Publications:
Black, Mary (1911/1912). “Our public library.” Papers and Annual Reports of the Thunder Bay Historical Society 3: 6-7.
Black, Mary (1913). ”Books for girls.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 74-79.
Black, Mary (1915). “Town survey in theory and practice.” Proceedings of the OLA Annual Meeting: 72-80.
Black, Mary (1916). “The library and the girl.” Ontario Library Review 1: 8-9.
Black, Mary (1917). “What seems to me an important aspect of the work of public libraries at the present time.” Proceedings of the OLA Annual Meeting: 30-34.
Black, Mary (1918). “Concerning some popular fallacies.” Proceedings of the OLA Annual Meeting: 52-58 (OLA Presidential Address.)
Black, Mary (1918). “Walks and talks with Wilfred Campbell.” Ontario Library Review 3: 30-31.
Black, Mary (1919). “Twentieth century librarianship.” Canadian Bookman n.s.1: 58-59.
Black, Mary (1920). “New library legislation in Ontario.” Canadian Bookman n. s. 2:18-19.
Black, Mary (1921). “Tales through the ages from the banks of the Kaministiquia.” Papers and Annual Reports of the Thunder Bay Historical Society 16-12: 8-10.
Black, Mary (1924). “Early history of the Fort William Public Library.” Papers and Annual Reports of the Thunder Bay Historical Society 16-17: 12-21.
Black, Mary (1924). ”Place names in the vicinity of Fort William.” Papers and Annual Reports of the Thunder Historical Society 16-17: 12-21.
Black, Mary (1927). “Canadian library extension meeting”. Proceedings and transactions of the American Library Association, 49th Meeting: 338-340.
Black, Mary. (1928). “Adult education.” Proceedings of the OLA Annual Meeting: 61-64.
Black, Mary (1931).”Ontario libraries.” Ontario Library Review 15:132-138.
Black, Mary (1933). “Publicity for the older books.” Ontario Library Review 17: 5-6.
Black, Mary (1934). “Fort William, Ontario, Public Library.“ Library Journal 59: 510-511.
Black, Mary (1935). “Ìdeal librarian.” Ontario Library Review 19: 125-126.
Ridington, John, Mary J. L. Black and George H. Locke (1933). Libraries in Canada: a study of library conditions and needs. Toronto: Ryerson Press and Chicago ALA.
Associations/Committees:
1917-1918 President, Ontario Library Association
1926-1934 American Library Association, member of Extension Board
1933-1934 American Library Association, chair, Small Libraries Round Table
1934-1937 Canadian Library Council, executive member (ex-officio)
1913-1928 Secretary-Treasurer, Thunder Bay Historical Society
1929-1932 President, Thunder Bay Historical Society
1916-1918 President, Fort William Women's Canadian Club
Honours:
The Mary J.L, Black Branch library, opened in 1938, was named in her honour. It was recently renovated for the second time in 2010 by the Thunder Bay Public Library at a cost of $4,000,000. It is one of the handful of Canadian libraries constructed during the Great Depression to continue in operation.
Accomplishments:
Mary J.L. Black believed the mission of the public library was essentially utilitarian – to provide the right book to the right reader at the least cost. Her “ideal librarian” was one who held the spirit of public service and knowledge of people alongside the love of books. Libraries should reach out to every citizen and in this regard her work with the non-English speaking immigrant population was particularly noteworthy. Her personal town survey in1915 to identify library needs exemplified her approach to library service. On a national scale, her work as a member of the Commission of Enquiry, funded by the Carnegie Corporation and conducted in 1930, remains a lasting contribution to Canadian librarianship. In her home city, she was active in service groups, promotion of history and local political and educational life. The poet, William Wilfred Campbell, was her cousin. She was the first woman to be president of a library association in Canada.
Sources:
Thunder Bay Public Library holds annual reports by Black and there are library board minutes for her tenure. The ALA Archives holds records of her activities and the Carnegie Corporation New York has information on her work on the 1930 Commission.
[Carson, William O.] (1917). “The librarian and library of Fort William.” Ontario Library Review 1: 92-95.
MacBeth, Madge (1918). “A bookish person.” Canadian Magazine 51: 518-520.
“Miss Mary J.L. Black is interviewed by Globe.” Toronto Globe June 18, 1927: 15.
Kirker, Ena. (Sept. 1927). “The woman who put charm into a public library.” Canadian Magazine 68: 32, 41.
Abbott, Brook (Nov. 1931). “An accidental librarian: Mary Black of Fort William, Ont.” Canadian Magazine 76: 18, 29.
“Mary J.L. Black dies in Vancouver.” Ontario Library Review 23 (Feb. 1939): 5-7.
Morrison, Ken (1994). “Mary J.L. Black of Fort William library.” Epilogue; Canadian Bulletin for the History of Books, Libraries and Archives 9, no 1: 13-22.
Scollie, Frederick Brent. ”Black, Mary Johanna Louisa.” In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16. Accessed Jan. 18, 2018.
Giles, Suzette (2015). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 57 (Spring): 6-7.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Robert H. Blackburn c.1958. Credit Leisure Cultural Activities Magazine (Alberta)
b. Feb. 3, 1919, Lavoy, AB; d. Sept. 18, 2019, Streetsville, ON
Education:
1940 BA University of Alberta
1941 MA University of Alberta
1942 BLS University of Toronto
1948 MLS Columbia University
Positions:
1945-1947 General Assistant, Calgary Public Library
1945-1954 Assistant Librarian, University of Toronto
1954- 1981 Chief Librarian, University of Toronto
1982 Librarian Emeritus, University of Toronto
Publications:
Books:
Wallace, W. Stewart and Robert Blackburn (1935-1949). Encyclopedia of Canada. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1948). Branch library size and geographic range of service: a case study. New York: Columbia University.
Blackburn, Robert H., ed. (1949). Encyclopedia of Canada: Newfoundland supplement. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1953). A joint catalogue of the serials in the libraries of the City of Toronto. 5th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1968). Ryerson Polytechnical Institute: program for construction of a Library Resource Centre. [S.l: s.n.].
Blackburn, Robert H. (1969). Financial implications of the Downs’ report on Canadian and academic research libraries. [Toronto]: Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
Blackburn, Robert H. and David G. Esplin (1971). Brief submitted to the Royal Commission on Book Publishing. [Toronto]: University of Toronto.
Blackburn, Robert H. and David G. Esplin (1971). Supplement to the brief submitted to the Royal Commission on Book Publishing. [Toronto]: [The Commission].
Blackburn, Robert H. (1977). Management experience with COM catalogues in a large academic library. [Toronto]: [s.n.].
Blackburn, Robert H. (1989). Evolution of the heart: a history of the University of Toronto Library up to 1981. Toronto: University of Toronto Library.
Blackburn, Patricia Gibson and Robert Blackburn (1992). Patricia Gibson Blackburn: her memoirs and her ancestry in the families Chalmers, Edwards, Godwin, Gibson. Mississauga, Ont.: Robert H. Blackburn.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2009). Palma Olson Blackburn, 1888-1965: her family and her life. Mississauga, Ont.: Robert H. Blackburn.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2012). Against the snow and other stories and poems. Mississauga, Ont.: Robert H. Blackburn.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2012). Sir Francis Drake’s last voyage: a verse – drama. Mississauga, Ont.: Robert H. Blackburn.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2014). From barley field to academe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2019). Before I forget. [Mississauga, Ont.]: [Robert H. Blackburn].
Articles:
Newton, May L. and Robert H. Blackburn (1949). “A punched card charging system.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 2 (September): 40–42.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1952). “Operation U.S.A.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 8, no. 6 (May): 166–167.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1952). “Operation: Europe.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9, no. 1 (July): 8-9;
Blackburn, Robert H. (1953). “The job so far [CLA Microfilm Project].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 10, no. 2 (August): ii–xvi.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1955). “Canadian documentation.” In Future of bibliography and documentation, edited by Elizabeth Dafoe: 7-10. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Blackburn, Robert H. et al. (1959). “Libraries in Canada today.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 36, no. 4 (April): 99–127.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1966). “Planning academic libraries.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 43, no. 2 (February): 33–34.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1966). “German University libraries.” Canadian Association of College and University Libraries Newsletter 5 (May): 23-27.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1969). “Automation and building plans.” Library Trends 18, no. 2 (October): 262–67.
Robert H. Blackburn H. (1970). “Photocopying in a university library.” Scholarly Publishing 2, no. 1 (October): 49–58.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1971). “Interlibrary cooperation.” In Research librarianship: essays In honor of Robert B. Downs, edited by Jerrold Orne: 51-73. New York: Bowker.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1984). “The development of Canadian academic libraries since 1947.” In Canadian contributions to library and information science; essays by Jean-Remi Brault and Robert Blackburn: 7-14. Montreal: Graduate School of Library Science, McGill University.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1985) “Winifred Glen Barnstead, 1884-1985.” Focus (Ontario Library Association) 11: 16–17.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1988). “Dewey and Cutter as building consultants.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 58, no. 4: 377–384.
Blackburn, Robert H. (1991). “Anecdotes from the history of the University of Toronto Library: an address.” [Reported] by John Macpherson.” ELAN 9: 15-16.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2002). “How I became a librarian.” ELAN 32:8.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2003). “The ancient Alexandrian Library: part of it may survive.” Library History 19, no. 1: 23–34.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2019). “Hugh Hornby Langton.” In Canadian encyclopedia. Toronto: Historica Canada.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2019). “Why I became a librarian (by mistake) and how I became a Chief Librarian.” ELAN 66: 5-6.
Blackburn was also a contributing writer in The Canadian Historical Review, and he wrote several biographical articles (Hugh Hornby Langton, John Langton and William Stewart Wallace) in the Canadian Encyclopedia.
Associations/Committees:
Association of Research Libraries (first Canadian member and Board member)
Midwest Interlibrary Centre (first Canadian member. Chaired its Board when its constitution was revised to broaden membership and to rename it as the Centre for Research Libraries)
Canadian Library Association (President 1958-1959)
Institute of Professional Librarians in Ontario (President 1963-1964)
Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (founding President)
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (founding Chair)
International Federation of Library Associations. (IFLA’s first conference outside of Europe held at the University of Toronto in 1967).
Ontario Library Association
Streetsville Public Library Board (Chair)
Ex Libris Association
Consulting editor on Canadian topics for Collier's Encyclopedia
Member of International Advisory Board for the Journal of Library History
Honours:
The Robert H. Blackburn Distinguished Paper Award presented annually by the Canadian Library Association was named in his honour.
The University Library built a state-of-the-art conference room, the Robert H. Blackburn Room, in his honour.
The University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science, honoured him as a distinguished graduate on May 4, 1989.
Blackburn received the University of Toronto 65th anniversary Chancellor’s Medal in May 2007.
He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Waterloo, McGill and Toronto.
Accomplishments:
Blackburn served a distinguished career as Chief Librarian at the University of Toronto from 1954 to 1981.
“Under his leadership the Library built many world class collections [adding almost five million volumes] and became a world leader in development of information technology tools and services subsequently adopted by libraries around the world. What he would see as his crowning achievement was the John P. Robarts Research Library and the adjacent Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library which were conceived and built during his tenure, opening in 1973. With over 1 million square feet, the Roberts Library complex is one of the world's leading research libraries.”
“The Fisher Library of rare books has inspired generations of students, but even more inspiring is the extraordinary collection that Bob started. One of the great Canadian treasures is the “First Folio Shakespeare”, a book of enormous importance. Bob convinced the Fisher family to give it, and the rest of one of the most important Shakespeare’s collections in the world to UTL, to be housed in the Fisher Library. That donation attracted many more great gifts over many generations.”
“The research library and generations of students past and future owe him a great debt of gratitude.”
During his career, Blackburn was also involved in the design of other Canadian academic libraries and of some small community libraries including the Streetsville Public Library Branch in Mississauga, Ontario.
“He administered the Ontario New Libraries Project under the Ontario Ministry of Education, creating the initial 35,000 book collection for each of three new Ontario universities (Trent, Brock and Guelph) and for Scarborough and Erindale colleges.”
“Blackburn’s 1968 study of the future financial needs for libraries for the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada was used to plan the development of academic libraries throughout Canada.”
Sources:
Robert Blackburn. Obituary: Edmonton Journal, Oct. 2, 2019. Accessed Oct. 28, 2020.
Obituary: Globe and Mail, Oct. 2, 2019.
Alford, Larry (2020).” In memoriam, Robert H. Blackburn, February 3, 1919 to September 17, 2019.” ELAN 67: 23.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2019). “Why I became a librarian (by mistake) and how I became a Chief Librarian.” ELAN 66: 5-6.
Blackburn, Robert H. (2014). From barley field to academe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Land, Brian (2008). “Tribute to Bob Blackburn.” ELAN 44: 16.
Wikipedia. Robert H. Blackburn. Accessed Oct. 28, 2020.
Robert H. Blackburn archival papers are held at the University of Toronto Archives and Record Management Services. Accessed Oct. 28, 2020.
b. July 7, 1922, Toronto, ON; d. Aug. 10, 2008, Toronto, ON
Education:
1948 BA (University of Manitoba)
1977 PhD (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1952-1967 Provincial Archivist, Province of Manitoba
1970-1988 University Archivist, York University
1970-1973 Lecturer, Dept. of History, York University
1973-1978 Associate Professor, Dept. of History, York University
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
Publications:
Bowsfield, Hartwell (1967). The United States and Red River settlement. Winnipeg: Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba papers, ser. 3, no. 3.
Bowsfield, Hartwell (1968). Selkirk. Toronto: Clark, Irwin.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1968). The James Wickes Taylor correspondence, 1859-1870. Altona, Man.: D.W. Friesen. Manitoba Record Society publications, 3.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1969). Louis Riel: rebel of the western frontier, or victim of politics and prejudice? Toronto: Copp Clark Pub. Co.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1969). Laurier. Toronto: Clark, Irwin [in association with Jackdaw Publications, London].
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1971). Louis Riel, the rebel and the hero. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Bowsfield, Hartwell (1973). Louis Riel: le patriote rebelle. Montréal: Éditions du Jour.
Bowsfield, Hartwell (1976). Upper Canada in the 1820’s: the development of a political consciousness. Toronto: [s.n]. Thesis.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1977). The letters of Charles John Brydges, 1879-1882, Hudson`s Bay Land Commissioner. Winnipeg: Hudson’s Bay Record Society. Hudson’s Bay Record Society publications, 31.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1979). Fort Victoria letters, 1846-1851. Winnipeg: Hudson`s Bay Record Society. Hudson’s Bay Record Society publications, 32.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1981). The letters of John Charles Brydges, 1883-1889, Hudson`s Bay Company Land Commissioner. Winnipeg: Hudson`s Bay Record Society. Hudson’s Bay Record Society publications, 33.
Bowsfield, Hartwell, ed. (1988). Louis Riel: selected readings. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman.
Visit the Manitoba Historical Society Web page for articles written for the MHS.
Associations/Committees:
Secretary, Manitoba’s Historic Sites Advisory Board
Chair, Archives and Local History Sections of the Canadian Historical Association
Member, Council of the Champlain Society
Member, Toronto Area Archivists Group
Honours:
1970 awarded Manitoba Centennial Medal
1999 inducted into York University’s Founders Society
Comments:
Hart was a historian, archivist and professor.
“He made significant contributions to the history of Western Canada”.
Hart was “a contributor to five encyclopedias, editor for the Manitoba Record Society …and he also produced talks and scripts for CBC productions in radio and television. He was closely associated with the Manitoba Historical Society, serving as a judge of the Margaret McWilliams Medal competitions, member of the Council, and editor of its magazine, Manitoba Pageant.”
As the Manitoba provincial archivist, “many searchers into all phases of Manitoba history are deeply indebted to him for patient pursuit to their queries.”
Hart’s “lengthy career as York’s first University archivist created a solid foundation of research collections for the benefit of future generations of faculty and students, which along with his many important contributions to historical scholarship, will remain his enduring legacy to Canadian society.” Among the major acquisitions he acquired were the papers of Margaret Laurence and the correspondence of Lady Victoria Welby.
Hart donated his books and papers to York University in 2003.
Sources:
Manitoba Historical Society. Memorable Manitobans: Hartwell Walter Lewis Bowsfield (1922-2008). Accessed Mar. 7, 2016.
York University Archives and Special Collections. Inventory of the Hartwell Bowsfield fonds. Accessed Mar. 9, 2016.
Shanahan, Noreen.“ Hartwell Bowsfield,86, academic”. (Special to the Globe and Mail, Oct. 29, 2008)
Obituary (Toronto Star). “H. (Hart) W. Bowsfield, July 7, 1922-August 10, 2008”
Elizabeth Brewster n.d. Credit The Fiddlehead no. 255
b. Aug. 26, 1922, Chatham, NB; d. Dec. 26, 2012, Saskatoon, SK
Education:
1946 BA University of New Brunswick;
1947 Radcliffe College, Harvard Universitly Cambridge, Mass.
1949–1950 graduate study at King's College, London, UK
1952 BLS, University of Toronto
1962 PhD University of Indiana, Bloomington, Indiana
Positions:
1947 Teacher, Cobourg, ON, private school (for a few months)
1948–1970 Library catalogue and reference positions in universities: New Brunswick (1948), Carleton (1953–57), Indiana (1957–58), Mount Allison (1961–65), Alberta (1968–70) and the New Brunswick Legislature (1965–68)
1960–1961 Teaching English at the University of Victoria
1970–1971 Assistant Professor at the University of Albera
1972–1990 Professor at the University of Saskatchewan
Publications:
Brewster, Elizabeth (1951). East coast. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (1982). The way home: new poems. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (1985). Selected poems of Elizabeth Brewster. Introduction by Tom Marshall. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (1991). The invention of truth. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (1995). Away from home. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (1998). Garden of sculpture. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (2000). Burning bush. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Brewster, Elizabeth (2009). Time & seasons. Ottawa: Oberon Press.
Five New Brunswick poets: :Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, Robert Gibbs,
Alden Nowlan, Kay Smith, Fredericton NB: The Fiddlehead, 1962.
Telfer, Nancy (1983). The ballad of Princess Caraboo: a narrative of singular imposition: for mezzo-soprano and piano. Words by Elizabeth Brewster. Oakville, ON: F. Harris Music.
Accomplishments:
Founding member of The Fiddlehead
Honours:
1952 E.J. Pratt Award for her second poetry collection Lilloet
1980 President's Medal, University of Western Ontario
1982 Honorary DLitt ,University of New Brunswick
1995 Saskatchewan Lifetime Achievement Award
2001 Member of the Order of Canada
2002 Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee Medal
2012 Queen`s Diamond Jubilee Medal
Saskatchewan Book Award for poetry (won twice)
Twice short listed for the Governor General’s Award
Comments:
Dr. Brewster was one of the few Canadian women poets publishing during the 1940s and 50s. Along with her friends, poets P.K. Page and Dorothy Livesay, she helped pave the way for young women poets of following generations. Her first poem was published when she was aged 12. “Dr. Brewster struggled a great deal during the first half of her life and her personal anguish was so severe that once she tried to drown herself but she survived and eventually found her place in life.” In 1968 she met a young writer named Margaret Atwood who gave her a transformative tarot card reading. Both Dr Brewster and Ms. Atwood were living in Edmonton at the time. Dr. Brewster was a librarian and Ms. Atwood a creative writing instructor at the University of Alberta. According to Dr. Brewster the reading of the tarot card indicated that “joy would replace sorrow in the second half of her life.” The future would spill over with great promise and a prolific out-pouring of verse. “I knew Elizabeth well when we were living in Edmonton and kept up with her after that” wrote Ms Atwood in an e-mail. ‘’She was an honest poet, very open, very clear.” Margaret Atwood`s influence stretched somewhat further – offering her a chance to take over the creative writing course and Influencing the choice and arrangement of the poems in her next book and suggested its title. “She finally settled down to a life rich in academia, as well as an auspicious writing career.” — Globe and Mail.
Sources:
Globe and Mail. “Obituaries” February 5, 2013.
University of New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
Jack E. Brown, n.d. Credit National Research Council
b. Mar. 1, 1914, Edmonton, AB; d. Jan. 17, 1996, Ottawa, ON
Education:
1938 BA (University of Alberta)
1939 BLS (McGill University)
1940 MALS (University of Chicago)
Positions:
1940–1942 Librarian, Edmonton Public Library (chief of circulation and reference)
1943–1945 Library Assistant, New York Public Library
1946–1947 Assistant Librarian, Brown University
1947–1957 Librarian, Science and Technology Division, New York Public Library
1957–1963 Chief Librarian, National Science Library, National Research Council, Ottawa
1963–1974 Director, National Science Library, Ottawa
1974-1977 Director, Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Ottawa
1978- Associate Professor, McGill University Graduate School of Library Science
Visiting Lecturer at university library schools at Toronto and Ottawa
Publications:
Brown, Jack E. (1940). The extension of public and school library services in the province of Alberta. MA thesis, University of Chicago, Graduate Library School.
Brown, Jack E. (1942). “Edmonton’s Street Car Library.” Library Journal 67(2): 62–64.
Brown, Jack E. (1960). “National documentation services in Canada.” Special Libraries 51(1): 25–29.
Brown, Jack E. (1962). “Science literature and the public library.” Ontario Library Review 46(2): 69–72.
Brown, Jack E. (1962). “Preliminary survey of science and technology libraries in Canada.” Special Libraries 53(10): 595–596.
Brown, Jack E. and P. Wolters. (1963). “Mechanized listing of serials at the National Research Council Library.” Canadian Library 19(3): 420–426.
Brown, Jack E. (1964). “Applications of data processing at the Canadian National Research Council Library.” In Proceedings of the 1964 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, pp. 105–11. Urbana, Illinois: Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Brown, Jack E. (1965). “The National Science Library: information centre for industry.” Industrial Canada 65(1): 1–7.
Brown, Jack E. (1966). “Survey milestones: Canadian libraries.” Library Journal 91(20): 5525–5528.
Brown, Jack E. (1969). “CAN-SDI Project: the SDI program of Canada’s National Science Library.” Special Libraries 60(8): 501–509.
Brown, Jack E. and Wolters, P.H. (1971). “CAN/SDI System: user reaction to a computerized information retrieval system for Canadian scientists and technologists.” Canadian Library Journal 28(1): 20–23.
Brown, Jack E. (1971). “CAN/SDI plus two: Canada's National SDI Service for Science and Technology.” In Proceedings of The Israel Society of Special Libraries and Information Centres International Conference on Information Science, Tel Aviv, 29 August-3 September, 1971, pp. 619–628.
Brown, Jack E. (1972). The Canadian National Scientific and Technical Information (STI) System: a progress report. Philadelphia: National Federation of Science Abstracting and Indexing Services.
Brown, Jack E. (1973). “Science policy and information networks: an introduction.” In Canadian Association for Information Science; Proceedings of The First Open Conference on Information Science in Canada, Montebello, Quebec, May 1415, 1973. pp. 134–137.
Brown, Jack E. (1974). “The National Science Library and its program.” In Library Services Cross Borders: Minutes of the Eighty-Fourth Meeting, May 9–10, 1974, pp. 14–19. Washington: Association of Research Libraries.
Brown, Jack E. (1975). “Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information.” Bulletin of The American Society for Information Science
1(8): 29–30.
Brown, Jack E. (1978). “Information users versus information systems.” Canadian Library Journal 35(6): 433–436.
Associations/Committees:
Secretary-Treasurer, Alberta Library Association,1941–1942
Councillor, Canadian Library Association, 1961–1964
Director, Association of College and Research Libraries, 1961–1964
Vice-President, International Federation for Documentation, 1965–1967
Honours:
1965 LL.D, University of Waterloo
1978 LL.D. McMaster University
1979 Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services Award for Special Librarianship in Canada
1980 CLA Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
1995 Centennial Medallion, International Federation for Documentation
1996 National Research Library renamed “J.E. Brown Building”
Accomplishments:
After graduating with a BLS at McGill University in 1939, Jack Brown received a Carnegie Fellowship to study at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. From 1942–57, he worked at the New York Public Library where he built a reputation for promoting science and technology library services. In the mid-fifties, Jack did broadcasts over the New York station WNYC for the program “Speaking Volumes.” After he returned to Canada in 1957, it was due in large part to his vision that the National Research Council Library achieved international recognition and achieved status as the National Science Library for Canada in 1966. In 1974, a modern building opened as the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information on Montreal Road. It was renamed in his honour in 1996. Brown, who began his career as a public librarian in Edmonton, always stressed public service, collegiality, and teamwork. Robert Shanks, his executive assistant at CISTI, said Brown was a “man of great principle who was admired by all”. Upon retiring in 1978, Jack Brown continued teaching at the McGill School of Library Science until 1983.
Sources:
Canadian Who’s Who, vol. 13, 1973–75.
“Dr. Jack E Brown.” (1996) Feliciter 42(2): 54.
“Dr. Jack Brown.” (1996). Ottawa Citizen, 20 January, p. C3.
Paramount Pictures 1942 video of the Edmonton Street Car Library on YouTube [accessed 1 Sept. 2017].
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Lawrence J. Burpee. Credit Library u0026 Archives Canada
b. March 5, 1873, Halifax, NS; d. October 13, 1946, Oxford, England
Education:
Lawrence Burpee was educated partly at home and at public and private schools
Positions:
1890 – 1905 Private Secretary to three federal Ministers of Justice
1905 – 1912 Chief Librarian of the first Carnegie Library of Ottawa (Ottawa Public Library)
1918 (May - November) Lieutenant 2d Depot Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Forces (Served in Canada)
1912 – 1946 Canadian Secretary of the International Joint Commission
Publications (selected):
Articles
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1899). “Recent Canadian Fiction.” Forum 27, no. 6 (Aug.): 752–760.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1902). “Modern Public Libraries and Their Methods.” Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 2nd Series, 8): 3–47
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1904). “The Library of Parliament.” Public Libraries; A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 9, no. 5 (May): 285.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1904). “Modern Methods in Small Libraries.” Public Libraries; A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 9, no. 5 (May): 217–121.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1904). “The Library Outlook in Canada.” Public Libraries; A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 9, no. 5 (May): 195–197.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1905). “Canadian Libraries and Mr. Carnegie.” Public Libraries; A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 10, no. 2: 87.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1907). “How We Purchase Our Books.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 1907.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1908). “Canadian Libraries of Long Ago.” American Library Association Bulletin 2, no. 5 (May): 136–143.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1908). “What the Canadian Government Is Doing for Canadian Libraries.” Library Journal 33 (Jan.): 17–18.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1910). “The Aberdeen Association.“ Bulletin of the American Library Association 4, no. 4 (April): 680–683.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1911). “A Plea for a National Library.” University Magazine 10, no. 1: 152–63.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1912). “As Others See Us.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 50–62.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1912). “Canada‘s National Library.” Library Journal 37, no. 3 (March): 123–124.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1912). “Library Cooperation in Ontario.” Library Journal 37, no. 2 (Feb.): 85–86.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1920). “A Plea for a Canadian National Library.” Canadian Historical Review 1, no. 1: 191–94.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1934). “A Plea for a National Library.” Library Journal 59, no. 12 (Dec.): 499–502.
Monographs:
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1901) Charles Heavysege. Ottawa: J. Hope & Sons.
Burpee, Lawrence J. and Lewis Emerson Horning (1904). A bibliography of Canadian fiction. Toronto: Victoria University.
Burpee, Lawrence J (1906). Preliminary report of the Carnegie Library. Ottawa: The Public Library.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1908). The Search for the Western Sea: The Story of the Exploration of North-Western America. Toronto: Musson Book Co.
Burpee, Lawrence J. and Cocking, Matthew, Campbell (1909). An adventurer from Hudson Bay: journal of Matthew Cocking, from York Factory to the Blackfeet country, 1772-1773. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada.
Murray, Alexander Hunter and Burpee, Lawrence J. (1910). Journal of the Yukon 1847–48. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau.
Burpee, Lawrence J.(1910) Canadian eloquence. Toronto: Musson Book Co.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1912) Humour of the North. Toronto: Musson Book Co.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1914). Highways of the Fur Trade. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1914). Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons. Toronto: Glasgow, Brook.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1914). Highways of the fur trade. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1915) Sandford Fleming, Empire Builder. London: Oxford University Press.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1917) Joseph Howe and the Anti-Confederation League. Ottawa: Royal Society of Canada.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1918). Among the Canadian Alps. Toronto: McClelland.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1927). Historical Atlas of Canada. New York: Nelson.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1927). The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Canadian History. London: Oxford University Press.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1929). Jungling in Jasper. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1931). The History of Emily Montague. Ottawa: Graphic Publishers.
Burpee, Lawrence J. (1944). The Discovery of Canada. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada.
Multi-edition works:
Burpee, Lawrence J, Obadiah Gardner, Roy S MacElwee, Alfred H Ritter, William H Smith. (1920–21) Hearings of the International Joint Commission on the reference by the United States and Canada in re: the beneficial use of the waters of the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Lake Ontario. Ottawa: International Joint Commission.
Associations/Committees (major positions):
1911-12 Ontario Library Association, President
1931 Founding member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Writers' Foundation.
1922 Founding member of the Canadian Historical Association. First President, 1922–25.
1925–26 President of the Canadian Authors Association
1930 Founding Editor of the Canadian Geographical Journal.
1936–37 President of the Royal Society of Canada.
1943–44 President of the Canadian Authors Association.
Accomplishments/Comments:
1931 Royal Society of Canada J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal
1931 Medaille de vermeil award from the Académie française
Lawrence J. Burpee Medal, Royal Society of Canada. Awarded to recognize an outstanding contribution or other achievement that greatly enhances the ability of the Society to fulfill its mission of making Canada better known on a national or international level, and/or contributes to the general advancement of geography.
Lawrence Burpee was a fervent supporter of many causes, from the need for a National Library in Ottawa to the cause of Polish independence. On the latter, he published a 1939 wartime article, “Poland’s fight for freedom,” in the Canadian Geographical Journal. On his way to Warsaw in 1946, he died in Oxford, England and is buried there. There is a memorial stone in Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, where his wife, Maude Hanington Burpee, is buried.
“His literary output in books, pamphlets, and contributions to learned publications was extensive. His material was largely historical and geographical, and he wrote with special authority on all matters connected with the early exploration of Canada. Of a score of books he produced special mention may be made of his last work 'The Discovery of Canada,' the translation of which into French he was supervising in the last year of his life. His most widely read book is his 'Search for the Western Sea.'“
— Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, vol. 51, 1947
Sources:
University of Toronto Library special collections (fonds 4) Lawrence Johnstone Burpee
Wikipedia -Lawrence J. Burpee
Library and Archives Canada - First World War Personnel Records
Lawrence Johnstone Burpee fonds at Dalhousie University Archives, MS-2-175
Digital works by Lawrence Johnstone Burpee at Canadiana.org
Canadian Encylopedia
Canadian Who's Who
ELA biography compiled by Ross Gordon
Martin Burell, nd. Credit Library Archives Canada
b. October 18,1858, Faringdon, Berkshire, England; d. March 20, 1938, Ottawa, ON
Education:
St. John's College Hurstpierpont College, West Sussex England
1928 Doctor of Laws, Queen's University
Positions:
He worked a short time for an English Bank
1883 Immigrated to Canada intending to be a fruit farmer in the Niagara Peninsula, but moved to Grand Forks British Columbia to start an apple farm
1903 Elected mayor of Grand Forks, British Columbia
1908 Elected to House of Commons (Conservative) for Yale-Cariboo, B.C.
1911–1917 Minister of Agriculture
1917–1919 Minister of Mines and Secretary of State Canada (Unionist)
1919–1920 Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue
1920–1938 Appointed Parliamentary Librarian on July 10, 1920
Publications:
Burrell, Martin, (1905). “The Fruit of Industry,” in Mother earth's treasure vaults, and other true tales of achievement, development and opportunity in the Boundary, Southern Okanagan, Similkameen, Nicola districts to British Columbia, p. 27. Victoria, B.C.: Colonist Print and Pub. Co.
Burrell, Martin, (1909). Educational Book supplementary chapter on “Fruit raising” by Martin Burrell in Elementary agriculture and nature study. Toronto: John Brittain.
Burrell, Martin (1912). Dominion Experimental Farms: A Guide to the Experimental Farms and Stations. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, published by Direction of the Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture.
Burrell, Martin (1914). Atlas of Canada issued by direction of Hon. Martin Burrell, Minister of Agriculture. Ottawa. [descriptive narrative of Canada]
Burrell, Martin (1915). Patriotism and Production. Ottawa, Government. Printng Bureau.
Burrell, Martin (1928). Betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross. Toronto. Macmillan.
Burrell, Martin (1934). Crumbs are also Bread. Toronto: Macmillan.
Martin Burrell (June 1934). Parliamentary library — Why are executions carried out on a Friday. Department of Justice.
Burrell, Martin (1937). “Books, Readers, and Reviewers.” Ontario Library Review 21, 3 (August): 115–16.
Associations/Committees:
House of Commons
Special Committee on Bill No. 182 An Act to amend the Customs Act
Standing Committees: (1) Agriculture and Colonization; (2) Mines and Minerals; (3) Standing Orders; (4) Pollution of Navigable Waters
Accomplishments/Honours:
1912 He created the Department of Agriculture's Publications Branch to collect and distribute information.
1913 He introduced the Agricultural Instruction Act and developed a new system of field inspection and tuber examination for potatoes which proved to create a large enough increase in quality to remove a stifling American embargo. As the Minister of Agriculture, he oversaw large scale agriculture growth during WW1 to feed Britain and Canada.
1915 He opened a government Publicity division.
1915 In February, he represented Canada at the opening of the Panama Exhibition.
1916 Martin was badly injured in the fire that destroyed much of the Center Block of the Parliament buildings. He resigned from his post as Minister of Agriculture in 1917 partially due to the injuries.
1919 He was chosen as the government representative to accompany the Prince of Wales on his Trans-Canada tour.
1931 At the League of Nations meeting, Geneva, he was voted a 'living allowance.'
1938 At his funeral, on March 23, William Lyon Mackenzie King was an honorary pall bearer, as were Arthur Meighen and R.B. Bennett.
Comments:
1886 He married Sara B. Armstrong.
From the New York Times obituary: “He was a popular speaker and was sought persistently by societies, institutions and organizations of varied nature. He was considered a cultured and entertaining writer and kept a kindly eye out for Canadian writers of promise…”
1933 A diary entry on September 13 by William Lyon Mackenzie King refers to Martin Burrell as a “social snob of the first order.” (He is present in numerous diary entries, often complimentary.)
He was the first farmer to become a Minister of Agriculture.
He wrote a weekly literature column, 'Literature and Life,' for the Ottawa Journal from 1924–1938.
Mr. Burrell died in office in 1938 and was not replaced until 1944. As General Librarian at the time of Mr. Burrell’s death, Félix Desrochers became the de facto Parliamentary Librarian during the intervening six years.
Sources:
Farms.Com — Reflections: Farm & Food History
The Fonds Martin Burrell held by Library and Archives Canada
New York Times — March 20, 1938
L'Avenir du Nord — 25 mars 1938
Library of Parliament website
L'illustration nouvelle— 21 mars 1938
Biography composed by Ross Gordon
Grace Butt c. 1940. Credit Memorial University of Newfoundland
b. Mar. 8, 1909, Brigus, NL; d. Jan. 22, 2005, Kelligrews, NL
Education:
Teacher’s training in Normal School, Memorial University College
Positions:
Taught School up until 1933
1933-1973 Reference Assistant, Gosling Memorial Library, St. John's, NL.
Publications (selected):
Butt, Grace (1947). “True Newfoundlanders.” Written for radio to celebrate the anniversary of John Cabot’s arrival in Newfoundland.
Butt, Grace (1969). “Part of the Main.” Play produced by Amalgamated Artists.
Butt, Grace (1975). “Gently falling flakes.” Written for the stage and produced by CBC Radio.
Butt, Grace (1979). “The people’s house.” Produced by CBC Radio.
Butt, Grace (1983). To Toslow we’ll go: and other plays. St. John’s: H. Cuff Publications.
Butt, Grace (1984). An ear or a fear: plays. St. John's: H. Cuff Publications. (“Relationships,” three short plays and “Faces of Women”)
Butt, Grace (1987a). The Road through Melton; and Winterscene: plays. St. John’s: Creative Publishers. Plays produced by St John’s Players.
Butt, Grace (1987b). A way with words: an anthology for the 20th anniversary of the Newfoundland Writers’ Guild. St John’s: Jesperson Press.
Honours:
1981 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Memorial University.
1986 Lydia Campbell Writing Award, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. An International award that resulted in her play “Part of the Main” being produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland.
Associations/Committees:
1937 founded The St. John’s Players
Canadian Authors Association, Newfoundland Branch, First president
Newfoundland Writers Guild, charter member and one of its first life members
Comments:
Grace Butt began her career as a teacher, but when she married she was no longer allowed to teach, so she took a job at the Gosling Memorial Library. She wrote in a variety of media - drama, poetry, essays and material for radio and television. True Newfoundlanders was written for radio to celebrate the anniversary of John Cabot’s arrival in Newfoundland. Gently fallen flakes was originally written for the stage and was produced by CBC Radio, as was The people’s house. She was a poet and also created radio and television documentaries. She did extensive work with the St. John’s Players and was writer and/or director for other theatre companies. In the early 1960’s she was a regular on “Eyewitness” a CBC/TV program similar to “Front Page Challenge”. In her later years she was afflicted with macular degeneration and was aided in her work by her adopted granddaughter, Mary Brown, with whom she lived.
Sources:
Brown, Mary. “Pioneer playwright remembered.” Obituary, The Telegram, January 27, 2005.
“Grace Butt,” in Lisa De Leon, Writers of Newfoundland and Labrador: Twentieth Century, pp. 101–112. St. John's, NL: Jesperson Press, 1985.
“Grace Butt, 1909–2005,” in Jean M. Sullivan, ed., Newfoundland Portfolio: A History in Portraits, pp. 25–28. St. John's, NL: Breakwater Books, 2006.
Alexander Calhoun, n.d. Credit Calgary Public Library
b. Nov. 17, 1879, Fenelon Falls, ON; d. Feb. 15, 1979, Calgary, AB
Education:
1901 BA (Queen’s University)
1902 MA (Queen’s University)
1906 Hamilton Normal School teacher training
Positions:
1901-1902 Tutor, Queen’s University
1902-1904 Lecturer, University of Manitoba (Manitoba College)
1904-1905 Graduate fellowship in Greek at University of Chicago
1905-1906 Lecturer in classics, Queen’s University
1906-1910 Teacher at Fort William Collegiate Institute and Trustee, Fort William Public Library
1910 Training as intern at Ottawa Public Library and McGill University Library
1911-1945 Chief librarian, Calgary Public Library
1918-1919 Served in Canadian army Siberian Expeditionary Force in far eastern Russia
Publications:
Calhoun, Alexander (1905). “Higher education in the Canadian West.” Queen’s University Journal 32 (9): 343-348.
Calhoun, Alexander (1944). “An extension programme for Alberta public libraries.” In Canadian Library Council, Canada Needs Libraries, 37-41. Ottawa: Canadian Library Council, Inc.
Calhoun, Alexander (1944). “Library training in Canada.” Wilson Library Bulletin 19 (3): 193–194.
Calhoun, Alexander (1945). “Alberta Library Association reorganizes.” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 1 (3): 25.
Calhoun, Alexander (1945). “Community centres and the public library.” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 1 (4): 38–39.
Calhoun, Alexander (1954). “A backward glance.” Alberta Library Association Bulletin 2 (Nov.): 9–10.
Calhoun, Alexander (1956). “The future of the book.” Alberta Library Association Bulletin 4 (Dec.): 8
Associations/Committees:
President, Alberta Library Association 1944-1945
Alberta director on Canadian Library Council, 1944-1945
President, Calgary Allied Arts Council, 1946-1949 (founding member in 1946)
Chair, Alberta Library Board, 1946-1948
President, Calgary Knights of the Round Table, 1932-1933 (founding member in 1925)
President, Calgary Golden Age Club, 1950-1954 (founding member in 1950)
President, Alberta division of Canadian Cancer Society, 1946
Chair, Calgary Allied Arts Council
Member of Canadian Library Association and American Library Association
Honours:
1954 LLD, University of Alberta at Calgary
1955 Alberta Golden Jubilee citation
1963 Elected life member, Alpine Club of Canada
1969 Honorary lifetime member, International Knights of the Round Table
1954 Alexander Calhoun Branch named in his honour [know as the Giuffre Family Library since 2018]
Life membership, Canadian Cancer Society
Comments:
Charles McCombs concluded that “Alexander Calhoun has made an excellent record in the many years that he has been at Calgary” in his report to the Rockefeller Foundation in 1941. Indeed, Calhoun arrived in western Canada at a time when library service was in a formative stage and, through two World Wars and the Great Depression, he played an instrumental role in offering social and cultural leadership to Calgary and in providing regional library leadership in Alberta. Calhoun is still remembered as a man of many tastes, a community activist, and progressive force in library service.
Sources:
Dingwall, Gloria A. (1996). Alexander Calhoun: Calgary’s first librarian, 1911-1945. MA thesis, Calgary, AB: University of Calgary.
Giles, Suzette (2017). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 61 (Spring): 10.
Lohnes, Donna, and Barbara J. Nicholson (1987). Alexander Calhoun. Calgary: Calgary Public Library.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Oct. 16, 1943, Cabri, SK; d. Dec. 27, 2016, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1966 BA (University of British Columbia)
1977 MA (University of British Columbia)
1981 MLS (University of British Columbia)
Positions:
1967-1968 Research Associate, Narcotic Addiction Foundation
1969 Research Associate, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of British Columbia Medical School
1970-1972 Regional Coordinator, Company of Young Canadians
1973 Research Director, Canadian Scientific Pollution & Environmental Control Society
1973-1976 Sessional Lecturer, University of British Columbia (Sociology of Knowledge); Douglas College (Introductory Sociology) and Langara Community College (Canadian Society, Social Stratification)
1976-1977 Research Consultant (BC Dept. of Highways, Canada Manpower Outreach, Extempora Music Society, Metro Human Resources, BC Federation of Labour)
1977-1979 Sessional Lecturer, University of British Columbia (Sociology of Education; Canadian Society; Distance and Community Education Programs)
1980-1983 Consultant, Automated Circulation Systems, Vancouver Public Library
1984-1990 Systems Librarian, Vancouver Public Library
1987 Lecturer, University of Washington Library School (taught in Graduate Diploma Program, Information Technology)
1987-1988 Automation Consultant, North Vancouver District Public Library
1989 Lecturer, UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (taught Introductory Library Issues)
1990-1997 Director of Systems and Planning, Vancouver Public Library
1997-1998 Lecturer, UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (taught Politics of Information & Telecommunications Policy)
1997-2005 Director of Systems and Technical Services, Vancouver Public Library
2005-2006 Director of Systems, and Special Projects, Vancouver Public Library
Publications:
Campbell, Brian (1998). “Universal access, electronic public space sustainability [Information Rights Week].” Feliciter 44, no. 3: 20-23.
Campbell, Brian (1998). “The politics of universal access.” In Understanding telecommunications and public policy: a guide for libraries, edited by Karen Adams and William F. Birdsall. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Campbell, Brian (1999). “Put people in the picture [Information Rights Week 1999].” Feliciter 45, no. 1: 38-40.
Campbell, Brian (2000). “Gutstein’s e.con: do public libraries have a future? [E.con: how the internet undermines democracy].” Feliciter 46, no. 2: 66.
Campbell, Brian (2000). “Libraries at the WTO Third Ministerial Conference, Seattle, 1999.” Feliciter 46, no. 2: 73-76.
Campbell, Brian (2002). “Library transformation goes beyond individual libraries.” Feliciter 48, no. 6: 258.
Campbell, Brian (2002). “Media concentration and the role of libraries in promoting a diversity of voices.” Feliciter 48, no. 6: 275-277.
Campbell, Brian and Barbara J. May (2004). “A message about the media.” Feliciter 50, no. 5: 184-185.
Campbell, Brian (2004). “Consider the alternatives: libraries and the media.” Feliciter 50, no. 5: 186-189.
Campbell, Brian (2005). “We need to reach the others.” Feliciter 51, no. 6: 257-258.
Campbell. Brian (2005). “’In’ versus ‘with’ the community: using a community approach to public library services.” Feliciter 51, no. 6: 271-273.
Campbell, Brian (2008). Community-led libraries toolkit. Vancouver: Vancouver Public Library Working Together Project.
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association:
LITA Committee on Technology and Access, Chair 1987-1989
LITA Committee on Emerging Technologies, Vice-Chair, 1987-1988
LITA Committee on Emerging Technologies, Chair, 1988-1989
ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, Committee on Media Concentration
ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee, Committee on Civic Dialog
British Columbia Library Association:
Intellectual Freedom Committee, Founding member and Chair, 1987-1992
Information Policy Committee, Founding member and Chair, 1993-2003
Third World Libraries Interest Group, Executive member, 1988-1990
Canadian Library Association:
Information Policy Task Force (later CLA Information Policy Committee), Founding member and Chair, 1994-1999
International Trade Committee, Founding Vice-Chair, 1999-2000
Canadian Legal Information Centre (Legal Information Ideals Access Working Group, member, 1991)
BC Freedom of Information & Privacy Association (BCLA Representative, 1991; Vice President , 1992-1994)
Vancouver FreeNet (later Vancouver Community Network), Founding President & Board Member 1992-1997
BC Coalition for Information Access, Chair, 1996-1998
BC Minister's Advisory Council on Information Technology, member, 1996-1998
Seriously Free Speech Committee, Vancouver, Co-Founder, 2008-2016
People's Co-op Bookstore, Board of Directors, 2013-2016
Media Democracy Day Committee, Vancouver, Founding member, 2001?
B.C. Coalition for an Open Government
Canadian Government Depository Programme Advisory Committee
Public Library Services Branch Gateway Project Advisory Committee
Campaign Steering Committee, Right to Privacy Campaign
OCLC Canadian Advisory Committee
City of Vancouver Technical Architecture Committee
Honours:
1990 BCLA Honourary Membership for educational and advocacy work associated with intellectual freedom
1992 BCLA Honourary Membership for advocacy work and government lobbying on behalf of freedom of access legislation
1997 UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, Distinguished Alumnus
1997 CLA Canadian Association of Public Libraries, Outstanding Public Library Service
2000 British Columbia Library Association President’s Award for Outstanding Library Service
2004 Canadian Library Association Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
2005-2006 British Columbia Library Association Helen Gordon Stewart Award
2015 Canadian Library Association Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada Award
Comments:
“Brian had a distinguished library career lasting more than 30 years. He was a fearless and tireless champion of intellectual freedom and equality of access to information. He devoted much of his career to ensuring that marginalized people had access to libraries and information. He was concerned that access to information would increasingly demand access to technology and so he was the primary builder of the Vancouver Community Network, originally called the Vancouver FreeNet. He initiated the BCLA Information Policy Committee because of his concern for the risk that technology would erode the public’s right to information. And he spearheaded the national Working Together Project, which helped connect vulnerable people with library services. In the 1990s, thanks largely to Brian’s vision and efforts, the BC Library Association lobbied libraries and government to introduce free public access internet stations and training into public libraries. BC was the first jurisdiction to provide free access to the Internet in all public libraries. No single effort resulted in such a broad increase in access to information for the general public.” He also “took on challenges like the proposed amendments to the Criminal Code and the Customs Tariff regarding pornography. He helped shape BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, fought the campaign against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and the World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services.”
“Brian believed in equity and inclusiveness of opportunity all through his life and fought for these goals in his library career. The library did not exist in a world where ideas did not have to struggle for expression. His was always a politically nuanced world. He tried to read the writing on the wall and to face up to it. He ran for mayor of Vancouver for the NDP in the early 1970s, fighting for better public transportation and social housing and warning against the 'executive city' that Vancouver has become. As he fought for freedom of speech and the right to information in the library, so he fought for this in politics and on the streets. His was a coherent life, integrated in thought and action.
The Seriously Free Speech Committee was one of the last organizations he co-founded and their online obituary makes clear his recognition that free speech and freedom of information are not academic abstractions. They have real life consequences and cannot be maintained without struggle.”
“Brian helped organize the SFSC [Seriously Free Speech Committee] in 2008 …[which advocates for the free expression of views about issues relating to Israel and Palestine] and spearheaded numerous SFSC campaigns. Brian Campbell lived to make the world a better place.”
Sources:
British Columbia Library Association. A tribute to library leader Brian Campbell. (BCLA Perspectives vol. 9 (2017) issue 1). Accessed Aug. 13, 2018.
YouTube online ceremony — Remembering Brian Gordon Campbell 1953-2021 posted September 29, 2021
Biography contributed by Gillian Campbell.
Henry Cummings Campbell c.1956. Credit Toronto Public Library
b. Vancouver, April 22, 1919; d. Toronto, July 31, 2009
Education:
1940 BA (University of British Columbia)
1941 BLS (University of Toronto)
1949 MA Library Science and Adult Education (Columbia University)
Positions:
1941-1943 Librarian, National Film Board of Canada
1943-1946 Producer, National Film Board of Canada
1946-1949 Archivist, AV Services, United Nations Archives, Lake Success, New York
1949-1956 Programme Director, Library Division, UNESCO
1958-1981 Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1978-1981 Library and Information Consultant, Espial Productions Ltd.
Publications (major contributions):
Campbell, H.C. 1959. Toronto builds an extension [central reference library]. Library Journal 84, 1 Dec.: 3706-08.
Campbell, H.C. 1959. Libraries and Urban Development in Canada. Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 36, no. 4 (April): 113.
Campbell, H.C. 1961. The immigrant and the public library [Toronto]. Library Journal 86, 1 June: 2057-59.
Campbell, H.C. 1961. Public libraries in metropolitan Toronto. Wilson Library Bulletin 35, Jan.: 359-64.
Campbell, H.C. 1962. Toronto’s overseas interne scheme: 10 years after. Journal of Education for Librarianship 2, Winter: 158-161.
Campbell, H.C. 1963. New Canadians tune in to the public library. UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries 17, March-April: 63-4.
Campbell, H.C. 1964. The nature and purpose of increased government assistance, federal, provincial and local. Canadian Library 20, Jan.: 186-189.
Campbell, H.C. 1964. Public libraries in Metropolitan Toronto—1957–1964. Ontario Library Review 48, 2: 64-69.
Campbell, H.C. 1966. A proposal for a bibliographic bank for the Province of Ontario. Library Resources and Technical Services 10, 4: 512-519.
Campbell, H.C. 1966. Some implications for libraries of communications satellites. UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries 20, May-June: 129-133,139.
Campbell, H.C. 1967. Are libraries hot or cool? Wilson Library Bulletin 41, May: 911-12.
Campbell, H.C. 1968. The effect of metropolitanism on the public library. Library Quarterly 38, Jan.: 32-40.
Campbell, H.C. 1969. National planning for Canadian science and social science information systems. Library Trends 17, 3: 280-88.
Campbell, H.C. and Virginia F. Ludlow. 1969. The Canadian library scene. International Library Review 1, April: 213-23.
Campbell, H.C. 1971. Canadian Libraries, 2nd. ed. Toronto: Pendragon House.
Campbell, H.C. 1973. A look ahead for the Toronto Public Library. IPLO Quarterly 14, Jan.: 104-07.
Campbell, H.C. 1973. Metropolitan public library systems in Canada. Pakistan Library Bulletin 6, 1-2: 1-28.
Campbell, H.C. 1980. The Future of Electronic Libraries and Electronic Publishing in Canada: A Position Paper for the Canadian Library Association. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Campbell, H.C. 1980. Manual on Public Library Systems and Services, 1981
Campbell, H.C. 1980. Computer Information Systems in the Peopleâ€s Republic of China. 1986.
Associations and Committees:
Canadian Library Association, President, 1973-74
American Library Association
Canadian Association for Information Science/L'Association canadienne des sciences de l'information
Ontario Library Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
1950 Establishment of a foundation for Universal Bibliographic Control/UNESCO Programme
1967 Establishment of a metropolitan library system
1974 Establishment of the Harry Campbell IFLA Conference Attendance Grant to assist librarians from Developing Countries to attend IFLA
1977 Ontario Library Association Trustee Award
1979 Honorary Fellow, International Federation of Library Associations
1984 P.N. Kaula Medal
Other areas of activity:
National information planning, international information planning, special library management. Consultant in collection development, databases/systems, special libraries, staff development
Comments
“Harry exceeded expectations – he was so smart and energetic, although on occasion we did speculate about the origin of the word “Harried.” — Professor Patricia Fleming on the occasion of his memorial, August 24, 2009.
“Harry's mission was to establish TPL as the cultural and intellectual hub of an expanding, cosmopolitan and ever more multicultural city. He did that with vision, creative thinking, out-of-the box innovations while encouraging all to look outward, to embrace the community and spread the word of the library as being integral to a civilized society. . .” — Paula de Ronde on the occasion of his memorial, August 24, 2009.
In 1963, Theresa G, Falkner, chair of the Toronto Public Library, wrote in her annual report of a “dynamic new climate” in TPL, of electricity in the air, experimentation going on and a feeling of excitement and described the situation as follows: 'The human dynamo generating this vibrating wind of change in the library is Harry C. Campbell. Dr. Sanderson did well to recommend him to the board as his successor. In our chief librarian we have a brilliant driving force, fearless, optimistic and tireless. His vigorous leadership is deeply appreciated by the Board.'” — Paula de Ronde on the occasion of his memorial, August 24, 2009.
Sources:
Directory of Library and Information Professionals. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1988, volume 1, p. 176.
Obituary, Globe and Mail, Monday, August 10, 2009.
Wikipedia Henry Cummings Campbell [accessed June 2023].
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Oct. 11, 1928, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK; d. Apr. 17, 2016, Toronto, ON
Education:
1950 BA (University College, University of Toronto)
1965 BLS (University of Toronto)
1967 MLS (University of Toronto)
1973 M.Ed (Queen's University)
1983 PhD (University of Michigan)
Positions:
School librarian at Thistletown Collegiate and consultant to Etobicoke Board of Education
1967-1994 Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
Publications:
Carou, Mavis (1967). “A computerized method of preparing catalogue cards, using a simplified form of data input.” In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the American Documentation Institute, October 22-27, 1967, New York, N.Y., vol. 4, pp. 186–90. Washington, D.C.: Thompson Book Co. for ADI.
Cariou, Mavis O. 1973. Bibliographic form: a programmed instruction unit. M.Ed thesis. Kingston, Ont: Faculty of Education, Queen’s University.
Cariou, Mavis (1979). “Liaison, where field and faculty meet.” Canadian Library Journal 36 (3): 155-163.
Cariou, Mavis (1983). Syntax, vocabulary and metaphor in three groups of novels for children in grades four to six. PhD thesis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan.
Cariou, Mavis and Michael Michaud (1983). Computer programming and PASCAL. Rev. [course text]. Toronto: Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto.
Cariou, Mavis (1984). “Education for automation.” In Computer applications in Ontario government libraries, by Brian H. Morrison and Douglas Armstrong: 1-10. Toronto: Ontario Government Libraries' Council.
Cariou, Mavis, Sandra J. Cox, Alvan. Bregman, and Edith T. Jarvi (1985). Canadian selection: books and periodicals for libraries. 2nd ed. Toronto: Published for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and the Centre for Research in Librarianship, University of Toronto [by] University of Toronto Press.
Cariou, Mavis, Adele Fasick and John P. Wilkinson. (1990). A response to the Ontario public library strategic plan. Toronto: Faculty of Library and Information Science.
Cariou, Mavis (2009). “Canadian On-line Journals – 2009 Update.” ELAN 46 (fall): 9-10.
Associations/Committees:
Member of Ontario Library Association and Canadian Library Association
Chair of the OLAs School and Intermediate Libraries Section, 1966-1967
Honours:
Recipient of the University of Toronto Arbor Award [2003] given “to recognize alumnae and friends of the University for their outstanding volunteer efforts.”
Comments:
Dr. Cariou “was on faculty at the University of Toronto iSchool for more than 25 years. She was responsible for the Faculty's Continuing Education Programme as well as teaching. [She] was well known for her knowledge and teaching in the library field.”
“She taught statistical methods to generations of FIS students. Many of her former students will remember her fantastic statistics class. Her professional interests [were] in communication, education and technology, semantics, learning and reading theory, and audiovisual materials.”
“For many years Professor Cariou was the Faculty specialist in the school library stream. Her students went on to establish and develop school and public library services for children in Ontario. Professor Cariou's concern for her students did not end when they graduated: she served as a mentor for librarians who called on her for advice in their professional lives. No matter how busy she was, Professor Cariou was always available to help her former students. Throughout her career, she was one of the most popular faculty members at the school.”
“During the 1970s and 1980s when the advent of computers was changing the face of librarianship, Mavis Cariou was one of the most forward-looking members of the profession. She worked with the Ontario Ministry of Education when they were developing computer services for schools and helped to shape the services provided.”
“Another continuing interest of Professor Cariou was intellectual freedom. She championed the right of libraries to collect and make available a wide range of materials for all their patrons.”
Sources:
“Awards: Mavis Cariou.” ELAN 35 (spring 2004): 19.
Fasick, Adele (2016). “Prof. Mavis O. Cariou.” Informed Magazine (autumn): 33.
FIS Professional Learning Centre, the iSchool Institute, University of Toronto.
William O. Carson, n.d. Credit London Public Library
b. Mar. 8, 1874, London, ON; d. Sept. 27, 1929, Toronto, ON
Education:
Carson completed high school at London Collegiate Institute
Positions:
Before turning to librarianship, Carson operated a photography business on Dundas Street and in 1905 served as an alderman in London
1906-1916 Chief Librarian, London Public Library
1916-1929 Inspector of Public Libraries, Ontario Department of Education
Publications:
Carson, William O. (1909). “Newark (Modified) Charging System.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 68–69. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1909). “Reference work in the library.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 22–35. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1912). “The status and training of the public librarian.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 106–114. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1914). “Book purchasing.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 110–116. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1915). “The Canadian public library as a social force.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 36–42. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1917). “Libraries in war-time and some factors that require consideration.” In Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting, 59–62. Toronto: L.K. Cameron.
Carson, William O. (1921). “The Ontario public library rate.” American Library Association Bulletin 15 (7): 126–128.
Carson, William O. (1924). “Public libraries of Canada.” In British Association for the Advancement of Science, Handbook of Canada, 74–77. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Carson, William O. (1926). “Canadian considerations [on adult education].” In Libraries and adult education; report of a study made by the American Library Association, 93–102. New York: Macmillan Co.
Carson, William O. (1926). “Canadian Chapter [reprint of Libraries and adult education].” Ontario Library Review 11 (2): 28–35.
Carson, William O. (1927). “Public libraries of Ontario.” Library Journal 52 (9): 451–456.
Carson, William O. (1927). “Special libraries of Toronto [editorial introduction].” Special Libraries 18 (5): 147–153.
Carson's annual reports on the development of Public Libraries, Historical, Literary, and Scientific Societies submitted to the Minister of Education, Ontario were printed by the King's Printer from 1916-1928.
Associations/Committees:
President, Ontario Library Association 1914-1915.
Member of American Library Association: ALA Council (1928-1929), the Board on Library and Adult Education, the Curriculum Study Advisory Committee, and the Committee on Legislation.
Honours:
London's East End branch at the corner of Dufferin Avenue/Quebec Street was renamed the W. O. Carson Branch Library in 1961 to commemorate his tenure as chief librarian. A new building opened at this site in 1977 and received major renovations in 2010.
Comments:
In speaking of Inspector Carson's passing, George H. Locke said: “Mr. Carson has done a very notable work in spreading the influence of the public library through the Province. He was recognized in the United States, where he was made a member of the most important of library commissions … Mr. Carson organized the Library Training School, which made librarianship a profession in tho Province.” Carson's most notable achievement was a complete revision of the Public Libraries Act in 1920 which provided for an enhanced municipal library rate set at a minimum of 50 cents per capita; better regulations governing qualifications for librarians; and more powers to the minister of education to improve travelling libraries, library training, and administrative standards. This legislation served as a framework for provincial library legislation until 1966. Carson also founded the Ontario Library Review in 1916, a publication which continued until 1982.
Sources:
“Mr. W.O. Carson” (1929). Ontario Library Review 14 (2): 40–41.
“William O. Carson.” In Arthur L. Tunnell and Charles G.D. Roberts, Standard dictionary of Canadian biography, vol. 1, 101. Toronto: Trans-Canada Press, 1934-1938.
“Carson, William Oliver.” In Dictionary of Canadian biography, vol. 15, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003. Accessed Sept. 8, 2020.
Giles, Suzette (2018). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 63 (Spring): 11.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. 1 Nov. 1908, Toronto, ON; d. 10 Sept. 2004, Calgary, AB
Education
1932 BA University of Toronto
1935 BSc University of Minnesota
1936 MLSc University of Michigan
Positions
1937–1945 Chief Librarian, Fort William Public Library (Thunder Bay)
1945–1973 Chief Librarian, Calgary Public Library
Publications
Castell, William (1938). “New Course of Studies Makes Heavy Demand on Fort William Public Library Shelves.” Ontario Library Review 22 (1): 23–24.
Castell, William (1941). “A New Experiment in Library Lighting at the Fort William Public Library.” Ontario Library Review 25 (1): 14–16.
Castell, William (1952). “Branch libraries in Calgary.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 8 (5): 22–23.
Castell, William (1965). “The year ahead [1965–1966].” Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 20th annual conference, Toronto, June 23–July 1, 1965, pp. 20–24. Ottawa: The Association.
Castell, William (1966). “Presidential address.” Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 21st annual conference, Calgary, June 19–25, 1966, pp. 19–21. Ottawa: The Association.
Associations
President, Canadian Library Association, 1965–1966
President, Alberta Library Association, 1946–1947
Honours
W.R. Castell Central Library on Macleod Trail named in his honour from 1974–2018
Achievements/Comments
William Rentoul Castell was known to be an able administrator and promoter of branch libraries. When he came to Calgary in 1945, the library system consisted of the Carnegie library in Memorial Park (1912) and a small branch in Crescent Heights. During his tenure, he was responsible for the planning of a dozen new branches, the operation of several bookmobiles, and the opening of a new downtown central central library on Macleod Trail South (1963) that was later named in his honour shortly after his retirement. When he passed away in September 2004, “his former employees remembered him as a compassionate, equal-opportunity boss who had hired people of colour and people with physical handicaps long before this became common practice among Calgary employers.” — Brian Brennan, The Calgary Public Library.
W.R. Castell was also known to speak his mind: when he accepted his nomination as president of CLA at Toronto on July 1st, 1965, he questioned whether French could attain parity with English within Canada at a time when bilingualism was being debated, he deplored the tendency to continually raise library membership fees, he openly criticized CLA’s organizational structure which he felt had become unwieldy, and said a person’s first loyalty should be to Canada. — CLA 20th conference proceedings held in the Royal York Hotel, Toronto, 1965.
Sources
Robert Dykstra, “Retired library boss William Castell hasn’t ‘filed’ his affection for books.” Calgary Herald, 25 February, 1980, A7.
“Library Chief Says English Is Paramount.” Globe and Mail, 2 July 1965, 5.
Brian Brennan (2012). The Calgary Public Library: Inspiring life stories since 1912. Cochrane, AB: Kingsley Publishing.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Dec. 10, 1858, La Prairie, QC; d. May 1, 1931, Montréal, QC
Education:
1874–1877 Montréal High School, Montréal, QC
1894 Library economy courses, likely taught by Melvil Dewey at Amherst College
Positions:
1888–1894 Member of editorial staff, Dominion Illustrated
Librarian YMCA Library
1895–1914 Assistant Medical Librarian, McGill University Medical Library
1914–1922 Librarian, Academy of Medicine, Toronto
Publications:
Charlton, Margaret Ridley and C.A. Frazer (1892). A wonder web of stories. Montréal: F.E. Grafton.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley and C.A. Frazer (1894). With printless foot: a holiday book of fairy tales. Montréal: Sabiston Litho.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley, Henry M. Hurd [and] John Hopkins Historical Society (1914?). Louis Hébert. [S.l.: s.n].
Charlton, Margaret Ridley (1922). “Christopher Widner, 1780-1858: a veteran of the War of 1812 and the first qualified physician in York.” Annals of Medical History, 4: 346-350.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley (1923). “Outlines of the history of medicine in Lower Canada under the French regime, 1608-1759.” Annals of Medical History, 5: 150-174.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley (1923). “Outlines of the history of medicine in Lower Canada continued.” Annals of Medical History, 5: 263-278.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley (1924). “Outlines of the history of medicine in Lower Canada under the English regime.” Annals of Medical History, 6: 222-235.
Charlton, Margaret Ridley (1924). “Outlines of the history of medicine in Lower Canada conclusion.” Annals of Medical History, 6: 312-354.
Associations/Committees:
Medial Library Association (co-founder and first secretary)
American Library Association
Honours:
Margaret Ridley Charlton Award for Outstanding Achievement
2003, Margaret Ridley Charlton was added to the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada as a “person of national historic significance”
2006, Government of Canada plaque honouring Charlton’s accomplishments unveiled at McGill University Life Sciences (formerly Medical) Library
Comments:
“Margaret Ridley Charlton … was a pioneer in medical librarianship, a scholar and a founder of an international library association. As Assistant Librarian of the McGill Medical Library … and Librarian of the Academy of Medicine in Toronto … she was the driving force behind the modernization of two major medical libraries in Canada. She helped establish librarianship as an autonomous profession, and, through her example, inspired other professional women to take leadership roles. In 1898 she became co-founder, along with Sir William Osler and Dr. George Milbray Gould, of the Medical Library Association … which led the way for other specialized library associations in Canada and the United States.
“Margaret Charlton co-founded the Medical Library Association in 1898, an international association and leader in specialized and academic librarianship. As librarian at two major medical research libraries from 1895 to 1922, Charlton innovated library practices at a time when most medical librarians were male doctors and librarianship was not yet recognized as a profession. Charlton made a pioneering contribution to the study of medical history in Lower Canada, authored numerous historical works and children’s fiction and demonstrated that women could succeed in leadership positions.” — Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Submisssion Report.
Sources:
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Submission Report concerning Margaret Ridley Charlton. Accessed March 31, 2016. [PDF download]
HLWIKI Canada. Margaret Ridley Charlton. Accessed March 31, 2016.
Francis, William W. (1936). “Margaret Charleton and the Early Days of the Medical Library Association.” Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 25: 58-63.
Wikipedia. Margaret Ridley Charlton. Accessed March 31, 2016.
Groen, Frances K. (1989). Margaret Ridley Charleston, medical librarian and historian: an evaluation of her career. Montréal: McGill University Libraries.
b. Feb. 15, 1936, Osgood, Indiana; d. June 7, 2008 Toronto ON
Education:
1958 BA University of Indiana
1963 MLS University of Indiana
Positions:
1962–1964 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
1964–1966 Librarian, San Francisco State College
1967 Cataloguer, University of British Columbia
1966–1969 Librarian, Simon Fraser University
1969–1973 Librarian, Indian and Eskimo Association, Toronto
1973–1978 Chief Librarian, Seneca College, Toronto
1978–1979 Chair, Applied Arts Division, Seneca College, Toronto
Publications:
Cheda, Sherrill, comp. (1974). “Women: a selected annotated bibliography.” Prepared for Women's day, Canadian Library Association Annual Conference, Winnipeg, Manitoba, June 1974. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
“The library in the political process.” (1974). [sound recording] Al Bowron, Sherrill Cheda. Moderator John Marshall. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science. 2 sound cassettes.
Cheda, Sherrill. (1974) “Women and Management: A Selective Bibliography 1970-73.” Canadian Library Journal 31, no. 1 (February): 27.
Cheda, Sherrill. (1974) “That Special Little Mechanism.” Canadian Library Journal 31, no. 5 (October): 422–432.
Cheda, Sherrill. (1974) “Women in the Library Profession.” Emergency Librarian 1 (June-July) 5–6: 28–32.
Cheda, Sherrill, and Phyllis Yaffe. (1977) “Going Nowhere—CLA 1977.” Emergency Librarian 4 (July): 3–6.
Cheda, Sherill (1977). “Indian Women: An Historical Example and a Contemporary View,” in Marylee Stephenson, ed., Women in Canada, rev. ed. Don Mills: General Publishing Co., pp. 195-208.
Cheda, Sherrill, Linda Fischer, Phyllis Yaffe, and Mary Ann Wasylycia-Coe (1978). “Salary Differentials of Female and Male Librarians in Canada.” Emergency Librarian 5, no. 3 (February): 3–13.
Cheda, Sherrill. (1978) “What Libraries can do for Women’s Studies.” Canadian Woman Studies. 1, no. 1: 131–134).
Marsden, Lorna R. and Sherrill Cheda. (1984). Women and management in libraries.Toronto: University of Toronto Library & Information Science Alumni Association. (Bertha Bassam lecture in librarianship, 5, 1978).
Cheda, Sherrill, Johanna Stuckey, and Marilyn Kantaroff (1980). “New Feminists Now.” Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme vol. 2, no. 2: 27-28.
Accomplishments:
Co-founder of Emergency Librarian with Phyllis Yaffe and Barbara Clubb.
Sherrill Cheda Graduate Scholarship in Women's Studies, York University. Established in 2008 to honour Sherrill's “contributions to feminism and her dedication to making a difference.”
Other areas of activity:
1979 Executive Director, Canadian Periodical Publisher's Association
1986 Ontario Ministry of Culture and Communications
1991–1995 Ontario Publishing Centre
Member, New Feminists; Columnist for Chatelaine; Registrar, Ontario Arts Council
Comments:
Described by Sandra Martin as “a feminist librarian, arts administrator, and cultural activist.”
“She was convinced of her principles, strong in her views. They were important to her” - Phyllis Yaffe
Sources:
Emergency Librarian, September 1, 2008, Frances Rooney, “Celebrating the history of a radical feminist Canadian periodical.” Accessed August 15, 2013.
Walker, Susan. “Sherrill Cheda, 72: Arts activist loved books.” Accessed 15 August 2013.
Sherrill Cheda Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
“Feminism and professionalism in librarianship: an interview with Sherrill Cheda. Canadian Library Journal, 34 (1974): 520.
Margaret Cockshutt as an undergraduate student. Credit Torontonensis 1945
b. Feb. 27, 1927, Brantford, ON; d. July, 9, 2023, Toronto, ON
Education:
1948 BA University of Toronto
1949 BLS University of Toronto
1964 MLS University of Toronto
Positions:
1949–1961 Librarian, teacher of cataloguing, University of Toronto Library School
1964 Full-time instructor, University of Toronto, School of Library Science
1965–1992 Professor, University of Toronto
1984–1987 Associate Dean, University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science
Publications:
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1954). “The Lubetsky Report: its nature and significance.” Ontario Library Review 38, no. 3 (Aug. 1954): 243–251.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1961). Basic filing rules for use in the course in library records. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Jackson, Sidney L., Josey, E.J., Cockshutt, Margaret E., et al. (1969). “In review.” Journal of education for librarianship 9 (3): 274–282.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1971). “Professional development: a study of the opportunities available in Ontario Academic Libraries.” IPLO Quarterly 12, no. 4 (April 1971): 149–172.
Cockshutt, Margaret E (1972). “The Library School looks at education for librarianship.” IPLO Quarterly 14, no. 2 (Oct. 1972): 59–65.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1974). Professional involvement in the evolution of the Dewey decimal classification. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1974). “Involving students,” pp. 189–197 in Teaching in the universities: no one way, ed. by Edward F. Sheffield. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. (1975). “Dewey today: an analysis of recent editions” in Major classification systems: the Dewey Centennial, ed. by Kathryn Luther Henderson, pp. 32–46. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, Graduate School of Library Science.
Cockshutt, Margaret E. with the assistance of Glenna E. Stevens. (1981). Subject cataloging/classification sections [from the] Library of Congress Cataloging Service Bulletin. [ S.l :s.n.].
Cockshutt, Margaret E., Donald C. Cook, and Ann H. Schabas. (1983). “Decision logic for Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Chapter 21 'Choice of Access Points'.” Library Resources & Technical Services 27 (4): 371–390.
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association
Canadian Library Association
Ontario Library Association
Ex Libris Association. Member of the Library Education Anniversary Committee, 2002.
Decimal Classifiction Editorial Policy Committee (DCEPC). Canadian appointee member
Honours:
Upon her retirement in 1992 and in honour of her long teaching career, a multimedia, interactive, electronic classroom for teaching, student use, and continuing education was planned and equipped in the Bissell Building, home to the Faculty of Information. In its most recent incarnation, the classroom continues to be one of the most technologically sophisticated classrooms on campus.
Comments:
Professor Cockshutt “devoted her entire teaching career to the Faculty of Library and Information Science at U of T. She was also active in the administration of the School as Administrative Assistant to Dean Bertha Bassam, and from 1984-87, as Associate Dean. She retired at the rank of Emeritus Professor in 1992” [after forty-three years of service].
“Professor Cockshutt was open to using new technologies to help “transition from traditional library services to more technology-oriented services.” — former colleague and Dean Emerita Adele Fasick.
Professor Cockshutt was considered an expert both in cataloguing and the theory and application of classification systems. She was recognized internationally for her knowledge of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Her advisory role on the Dewey Classification Editorial Policy Committee (DCEPC) helped in the development of editions 18, 19 and 20 of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). In her tribute to Professor Cockshutt, Professor Emerita Lynne Howarth stated “If we were to create a classification number to represent Professor Emerita Cockshutt, it would surely fit somewhere between 'remarkable' and 'truly memorable'.”
“The functions of a university professor are traditionally regarded as teaching, research, and publication. Certainly these three activities exist together as a triangle and cannot be separated, for each grows out of and enriches the other two. I have come to realize that teaching is the most important part of the triangle for me. I believe that teaching students is a valid activity in itself, although I recognize that my teaching is enriched by my other academic activities. Teaching allows me to analyse problems, to try to think creatively about their solutions, and to work with students to help them analyse and create and learn for themselves. Always as a teacher I shall have instances where I fail to communicate with another human being, but where I succeed, university teaching becomes vastly rewarding in itself.” — Margaret Cockshutt, Involving Students, 1974
Sources:
Globe and Mail (July 22-26, 2023).Margaret Cockshutt obituary. Accessed August 29, 2023.
Haworth, Lynne. Cockshutt, Margaret Evelyn, February 27, 1927–July 9, 2023. Ex Libris Association site, “Remembering Our Colleagues and Friends" [Accessed August 29, 2023.]
ELA biography compiled by Trudy Bodak
Richard Crouch, c.1960. Credit London Public Library
b. Apr. 14, 1894, London ON; d. Jan. 10, 1962, London ON
Education:
B.A 1921 (Western Ontario (attended Western Ontario 1914-1916;University of London (Eng) 1918-1919; Western Ontario, 1919-1921)
1921-1922 (University of Paris: Political Economy and Sociology)
LLD 1955 (Western Ontario)
Positions:
1923-1940 Chief Librarian, London Public Library
1940-1961 Chief Librarian and Director, Public Library and Art Museum, London, Ont.
Publications:
Has written extensively for library and adult education publications+, including the ALA Bulletin, Ontario Library Review, Canadian Art and Food for Thought.
Crouch, Richard. E. (1942). “Cooperation between the county library and the central public library of the county.” Ontario Library Review , 26 (May): 203-204.
Crouch, Richard E. (1950),. Chapter on libraries. In Kidd, J.R. Adult Education in Canada. Toronto: Canadian Adult Education Association.
Crouch, Richard. E. (1941). “London's new Public Library and Art Museum.” Ontario Library Review (August): 249-250.
Crouch, Richard E. (1944). “A Community art centre in action.” Canadian Art,: 2 (October-November): 22-28.
Crouch, Richard E. (1945). “The librarian.” Ontario Library Review 29 (February): 60-61.
Crouch, Richard E. (1946) “A Library meets the community.” ALA Bulletin, 40 (December 1): 475-478).
Crouch, Richard. E. (1947). “The lending library of Canadian Art: London Public Library and Art Museum.” Ontario Library Review, 31 (February): 60-61.
Crouch, Richard E. (1949a). “Brief presented to the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences on behalf of the London Public Library and Art Museum , November 1949.”
Crouch, Richard E. (1949b). “A Conference on the reports of the Special Library Inquiry.” Ontario Library Review, 33 (November): 349-352.
Crouch, Richard. E. (1949c). “The library and the community.” Ontario Library Review, 33 (May): 95-96.
Crouch, Richard E.(1958). “Looking forward” Ontario Library Review (May): 99-101.
Crouch, Richard E. (1960a). “Angus Mowat: our appreciation.” Ontario Library Review: 44 (May): 63.
Crouch, Richard E. (1960b) “Trends in Public Library Service.” Ontario Library Review, 44 (August): 149-143. (also in Food for Thought, 21 (November, 1960): 66-72).
Comments:
As described by Charles Dean Kent, Richard E. Crouch was indeed “a man ahead of his time.” He pioneered in the bringing together of a library and a museum.
Sources:
Compiled by General Reference Department, London Public Library and Art Museum.
Dr. Keith Crouch, Richard Crouch's son.
Kent, Charles D., comp. (1962). “ Richard E. Crouch: Man ahead of his time.; a sketch of his philosophy and ideas of library and art museum service as seen from his writings.” London: London Public Library and Art Museum, (Occasional paper 1).
Giles, Suzette (2018). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 64 (FALL): 7-8.
b. 1923, Winnipeg, MB; d. Jan. 4, 2017, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1944 BA University of Manitoba
1945 DipSW University of Manitoba
1970 BLS University of British Columbia
1970 Certificate of Archival Administration (Carleton University and Public Archives of Canada)
1976 MLS University of British Columbia
Positions:
1970-1988 University Archivist, University of British Columbia Library
Publications:
Daniells, Laurenda, Stanley E. Read (1971). More recreation for the contemplative man: a supplemental bibliography of books on angling and game fish in the Library of the University of British Columbia. Vancouver: Library of the University of British Columbia.
Daniells, Laurenda, Stanley E. Read (1972). Further recreation for the contemplative man: a supplemental bibliography of books on angling and game fish received in the Library of British Columbia, 1971-1972. Vancouver: [Library of the University of British Columbia].
Daniells, Laurenda (1984). “KESNER, automation for archivists and records managers: planning and implementation strategies.” Archivaria 19 (winter): 242-244. [Book review]
Daniells, Laurenda, Kevin Potvin (1986). Guide to plaques and memorials, UBC. [ Vancouver]: [Special Collections, University of British Columbia].
Daniels, Laurenda (1987). Tuum est. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library. (University of British Columbia Archives video, no. 130A).
Daniells, Laurenda (1988). Grantsmanship and the archivist. Vancouver: Association of British Columbia Archivists. (ABCA publications, no. 4).
Daniells, Laurenda et al. (1988). A guide to the University of British Columbia Archives and Special Collections personal papers and records. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library.
Daniells, Laurenda (2016). Royal blood: a memoir. Vancouver: Paper Trail Publishing.
Associations/Committees:
Association of Canadian Archivists
Member, Education Committee, Association of Canadian Archivists
Society of American Archivists
Archives Association of British Columbia (honorary life membership)
Canadian Historical Association
Association of Records Management Administrators (ARMA)
Comments:
“Laurenda Daniells was appointed the first University Archivist at the UBC Library’s Special Collections Division. Alone in this position for many years, Laurenda worked to bring some order to the institution’s historical records. She organized those materials which had already accumulated in Special Collections, and arranged for the acquisition of additional inactive administrative records from the various University departments, as well as private papers from prominent faculty, staff, and alumni. By the time she retired in 1988 with the honorary title “University Archivist Emerita,“ Laurenda had established the University Archives on firm foundations. During her career at UBC Laurenda served for several years on the Faculty Association executive, and on the University Senate. She also served a one-year term as President of the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of B.C. After her retirement Laurenda continued with her volunteer work, in particular her continuing involvement with University Hill United Church.” Laurenda was also an author, and her memoir “Royal blood” recorded her life stories.
Sources:
Laurenda Daniells, University Archivist Emerita, 1923-2017. [News] University of British Columbia Archives, Jan. 6, 2017. Accessed Feb. 6, 2018.
Laurenda Daniells: obituary. The Province, Jan. 14. 2017. Accessed Feb. 6, 2018.
University of British Columbia Library Archives.
WorldCat
Elizabeth Dafoe, c. 1948. Credit Canadian Library Association
b. Oct. 22, 1900, Montreal, QC; d. 25 April, 1960, Winnipeg, MB
Education:
BA 1923 (University of Manitoba)
LS diploma (New York Public Library School) 1925
1938-39 summer courses at University of Chicago Graduate Library School
Positions:
1925-26 Circulation and Reference Assistant, University of Manitoba
1926-27 Cataloguer, University of Manitoba
1928-1932 Assistant Circulation and Reference Librarian, University of Manitoba Library
1932-35 Chief Cataloguer, University of Manitoba Library
1935-1937 Chief Librarian, Junior Division, University of Manitoba Library
1937-1960 Chief Librarian, University of Manitoba Library
Publications:
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1944). “A National Library.” Food for Thought 4, no. 8: 4–8.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1945). “Regional Library Service.” Queen’s Quarterly 52, no. 2: 195–205.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1946). “Your Next Job–Librarian [C.B.C. Broadcast., September 4th, 1945].” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 2, no. 5: 106–7.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1947). “The First Year: The Canadian Library Association Reports.” Food for Thought 8, no. 2: 9–10, 27.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1948). “Librarianship as a Career.” Ontario Library Review 32, no. 3: 199–200.
Dafoe, Elizabeth, Freda F. Waldon, and Colin Gibson (1948). “A National Library for Canada.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 5, no. 1: 14–16.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1948). “What Is a Librarian?” Ontario Library Review 32, no. 1: 19–22.
Dafoe, Elizabeth, Freda F. Waldon, and Colin Gibson. “A National Library for Canada.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 5, no. 1 (July 1948): 14–16.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1949). “National Library Service.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 2: 54–57.
Dafoe, Elizabeth, ed. (1955). Future of bibliography and documentation. By Elizabeth Dafoe and others. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. (Canadian Library Association. Occasional paper; no. 7)
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1955). “Research Libraries.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 11, no. 6: 319–20.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1958). “The Library and the Community.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 13th Annual Meeting, Quebec City, June 13–19, 1958, pp. 7–13. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Dafoe, Elizabeth (1959). “A University Library [Manitoba].” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 36, no. 4: 106.
Associations/Committees:
1943-46 President, Manitoba Library Association
1948-49 President, Canadian Library Association
1949-1954 member, American Library Association Council
Honours:
Elizabeth Dafoe Library of the University of Manitoba named in her honour.
Accomplishments:
For a quarter of century, Elizabeth Dafoe was a central figure in the development of the University of Manitoba library in Winnipeg. Her efforts were noteworthy and resulted in her selection to represent western Canadian and academic interests in the wartime Canadian Library Council which led to the successful formation of the Canadian Library Association in 1946. Dafoe's interests included the formation of regional libraries, a topic she promoted in wartime publications, as well the creation of a National Library in Ottawa. From 1953-1960 she was a member of the National Library Advisory Council.
Notes:
“It is our hope for Canadian libraries that they will eventually form part of a nation-wide system. It is my hope that as they develop it will be possible for them to lay less stress on information and more on knowledge, less emphasis on the book of the month and more on the book of the decade, less accentuation on momentary interests and fads and more upon infinite concerns and problems.” — Elizabeth Dafoe, Canadian Library Association conference, 1949.
“Her tireless message of the need for a 'national library' and her outspoken ideas helped to define the mandate of the National Library of Canada”. [extract from her biography on Library and Archives Canada. Celebrating Women's Achievements].
Sources:
“Miss Elizabeth Dafoe” Manitoba Library Association Bulletin 8 / 2 & 3 (Sept. 1960), 1.
W.L. Morton (1963) “Elizabeth Dafoe: lover of language, literature and libraries.” Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association, 18th Conference: 8–9.
Manitoba Historical Society. Memorable Manitobans: Julia Annette Elizabeth Dafoe (1900-1960). [accessed Feb. 14, 2016]
“Elizabeth Dafoe,” Canadian Library 17 (Nov. 1960): 171.
“Miss Elizabeth Dafoe, University Librarian, dies.” Winnipeg Free Press,“ April 26,1960
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Aug. 15, 1880, Montreal; d. Jan. 21, 1968, Montreal.
Hochelaga Convent, Montreal
1920 Diploma in librarianship (McGill University summer library school)
1943 LL.D. (Université de Montréal)
Positions:
1920–1944 Assistant librarian, Bibliothèque municipale de Montréal
1932–1941 Head of cataloguing, Bibliothèque municipale de Montréal
Director of studies (1937–1942) and professor at the École de Bibliothécaires, Montréal
Publications (major contributions):
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1919). L’orphelinat catholique de Montréal : en appendice la Société des dames de charité de 1827. Montréal: Imprimé au Devoir.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1923). Les aventures de Perrine et de Charlot. Montréal: Bibliothèque de l'Action française.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1926). Le filleul du roi Grolo suivi de La médaille de la Vierge. Montréal: Bibliothèque de l'Action française.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire and Jacques Laurent (1934). Jeanne Mance. Montréal: Albert Lévesque.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1936). Une révolte au pays des fées. Montréal: Albert Lévesque.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1938). Charlot à la Mission des martyrs. Montréal: Librairie Granger Frères.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1940). Le Richelieu héroïque: les jours tragiques de 1837. Montréal: Librairie Granger Frères.
Daveluy , Marie-Claire (1940). “L’École de bibliothécaires de l'Université de Montréal.” Culture 1 (1) avril: 13-18.
Daveluy, Marie Claire (1944). ‘Les jeux dramatiques de l”histoire’; Que disaient nos aieules?; Le ‘Général” Vallières; Une visite inattendue; trois pièces en un acte. Montréal: Libr. Granger Fre’res.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1945). “L’École de bibliothécaires: son but — son enseignement.” L’Action Universitaire: Revue Des Diplômés de l’Université de Montréal 11 (10) juin: 119-125.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1947). “Ma carrière.” La bonne parole no. 3 (mars): 3–7 and no. 4 (avril): 6–9.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1949). Essai d'un code de classement en langue française. Montréal: Éditions Fides.
Daveluy, Marie -Claire (1952). Instructions pour la rédaction des catalogues de bibliothèques. Montréal: Éditions Fides [vol. 1].
Daveluy, Marie-Claire and Jacques Laurent (1962). Jeanne Mance, 1606-1673. 2. éd., rev. et mise à jour. Montréal: Fides.
Daveluy, Marie-Claire (1965). La Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal, 1639-1663: son histoire, ses membres, son manifeste. Montréal: Fides.
Associations:
Vice-President, Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française.
Membership, executive and honorary positions in various associations: Académie canadienne-française, Société des écrivains canadiens, Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Société historique de Montréal, Orphelinat Catholique.
Awards and Accomplishments:
Marie-Claire Daveluy was a literary author, librarian, bibliographer, and historian.
She is likely best known as the author of popular children’s works exemplified by Les Aventures de Perrine et de Charlot. Her stories were based on historical themes and provided a moral compass for young children.
During her lifetime she was often at the forefront of cultural life and was accorded many honours:
The first female member of the Société historique de Montréal in 1917.
Prix David (Province of Quebec) awarded for literary merit in 1924 and 1934.
Prix de l'Académie Française, Paris, awarded in 1934 for Jeanne Mance.
Co-founder with Aegidius Fauteux, Émile Deguire, and Paul-Aimé Martin, of the École de Bibliothécaires de l'Université de Montréal.
She helped found the Association canadienne des bibliothèques d'institutions in 1943 [known as the Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française after 1948].
Founding member of Académie canadienne-française in 1944.
As a member of the Conseil de l’École de Bibliothécaires, she was a signatory to the declaration, “Les bibliothèques dans la province de Québec,” in 1944.
Médaille du centenaire, Société historique de Montréal awarded in 1958.
Parc Marie-Claire-Daveluy in Montreal named in her honour in 1987.
Sources:
Chabot, Juliette (1968). “Marie-Claire Daveluy (1880-1968), bibliothécaire et femme de lettres.” Bulletin de l’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française 14(1): 12–15.
Morisset, Auguste Marie (1977). “Marie-Claire Daveluy, bibliothécaire, bibliographe, écrivain.” In Livre, bibliothèque et culture québécoise;: mélanges offerts à Edmond Desrochers, edited by Georges-Aimé Chartrand, vol. 1: 405–23. Montréal: Asted.
Bienvenue, Louise (2025). Marie-Claire Daveluy: une femme à la table des historiens (1880-1968). Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec.
Lajeunesse, Marcel, Éric Leroux, and Marie D. Martel (2020). Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec: portraits et parcours de vies professionnelles, pp. 43-73. Québec, Presses de l'Université du Québec.
Marie-Claire Daveluy in Wikipédia. Accessed December 17, 2021.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Laurent-G. Denis, n.d. Credit University of Montreal Archives
b. 21 Feb. 1932, Montreal, QC; d. Dec. 11, 1987, Toronto, ON
Education:
1954 BA (Loyola College, Montreal)
1955 BLS (McGill University)
1965 MLS (McGill University)
1969 Ph.D. in Library Science (Rutgers University)
Positions:
1955–1956, General Librarian, National Library of Canada
1956–1960 Assistant Chief Librarian for Public Services, Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Saint Jean, QC
1961–1970: Professor and Director, l'École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal
1970-1987 Professor, School of Library Science, University of Toronto
Publications:
Denis, Laurent G. (1964). Rapport sur l'organisation de la bibliothèque d'une cité des jeunes.
Denis, Laurent-G. (1965). Colloque sur les enquêtes de bibliothèques et leur milieu. Montréal: Ecole de bibliothéconomie, Université de Montréal.
Denis,Laurent G. (1966). Etude sur la gestion des bibliothèques de six collèges classiques de la province de Québec. Montréal: Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française.
Denis, Laurent G. (1966). Étude sur la gestion des bibliothèques de six collèges classiques de la province de Québec. Montréal: Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française.
Denis, Laurent G. (1966). La planification des bibliothèques publiques des agglomérations urbaines du Canada. Montréal : Université de Montréal, École de bibliothéconomie.
Denis, Laurent G. (1967). La bibliothéconomie: Bibl 303. Montréal: Université de Montréal, Ecole de bibliothéconomie.
Denis, Laurent G. and Paul J. Fasana. (1968). [Proceedings]: Colloque sur les implications administratives de l'automatisation dans les grandes bibliothèques. Montréal: École de bibliothéconomie et Service d'éducation permanente, Université de Montréal.
Denis, Laurent G. (1969). “Academic and Public Librarians in Canada: A Study of the Factors which Influence Graduates of Canadian Library Schools in Making their First Career Decision in Favour of Academic or Public Libraries.” New Brunswick, N.J. [doctoral dissertation].
Denis, Laurent G. (1969) “The Changing Role of Librarians: A Talk Before the Students, School of Library Science, University of Toronto, October 23, 1969.” [Toronto].
Denis, Laurent G. and Janina-Klara Szpakowska. (1969). La bibliothéconomie: BIBL 303. Montréal: Université de Montréal, Faculté des lettres, École de bibliothéconomie.
Denis, Laurent G. (1970). La Bibliothèque du Collège du Vieux Montréal: administration, gestion, services: rapport d'une étude.
Denis, Laurent G. and Claude Aubry. (1976). Rapport de l'étude des bibliothèques publiques de la region de Montréal. Québec: Ministère des affaires culturelles, Service des bibliothèques publiques.
Denis, Laurent G. and Claude Aubry. (1976). “Report on the Study of Public Libraries in the Montreal Region.”
Denis, Laurent G. (1980). “Programmes universitaires d’information documentaire: remarques du représentant de la Faculty of Library Science de la University of Toronto.” Argus 9 (Sept.–Oct.): 188–190.
Denis, Laurent G. (1980). “Directed Field Work: A Joint Venture of Public Libraries and the Faculty of Library Science.” Ontario Library Review 64 (December): 285–289.
Denis, Laurent G., Judith Levasseur, and Donald W. Bidd.(1981). Rapport de l'étude des coûts des services documentaires de soutien pour les programmes d'enseignement en français, Centre de ressources éducative françaises du Manitoba. Toronto: University of Toronto, Centre for Research in Librarianship.
Denis, Laurent G. (1982). “Library Education and Research.” IFLA Journal l8 (no. 1): 30–32.
Denis, Laurent G., ed. (1982). “Libraries and Librarianship in Canada.” IFLA Journal 8 (no.1): 11–41.
Denis, Laurent G. (1982). “Network Development in Canada: An Overview.” In Bowker Annual of Library and Book Trade Information. 27th ed. New York: Bowker: 436–439.
Denis, Laurent G. (1982). “Continuing Professional Education for Library and Information Specialists: A Right and an Obligation.” In Summary of Proceedings, 36th Annual Conference of the American Theological Library Association, Chicago, pp. 109–124.
Denis, Laurent G. and Florence Mackesy. (1982). “Personality and Professionalism?” Argus 11 (mai–août): 63–74.
Denis, Laurent G. and Pierre Matte. (1984). L’information: un levier économique important: rapport sur la création du Centre d'information industrielle et d'affaires de Saint-Laurent. [Quebec?].
Denis, Laurent G. Ethel Auster, Margaret Ann Wilkinson. (1984). “Financial Restraint in Two Ontario Public Libraries.” Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science.
Denis, Laurent G. and Ethel Auster. (1984). “Continuing Education for Library Personnel in Ontario.” Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science.
Denis, Laurent G. and Marcia J. Nuratil. (1984). “Library Science Students’ Commitment to Library Service for Older Adults.” Journal of Education for Librarianship 24 (Winter): 183–188.
Denis, Laurent G. (1985). ”The Management of Retrenchment in Canadian Academic Libraries.” Argus 14 (December): 135–137.
Denis, Laurent G. and Ethel Auster. (1986). “Striving Toward Excellence: Continuing Education for Library Personnel.” Canadian Library Journal 43 (April): 81–89.
Denis, Laurent G. (1987). “Field Input in the Education of Library and Information Science Professionals.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science 28, no. 2 (Fall): 154–156.
Denis, Laurent G. and Ethel Auster. (1988). ”The Management of Retrenchment in Canadian Academic Libraries.” Toronto: Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto.
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association
Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française
Association pour l’avancement des sciences et techniques de la documentation
Association of American Library Schools
Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
Canadian Association of Library Schools
Canadian Association of Public Libraries
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Canadian Library Association
Corporation of Professional Librarians of Quebec
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario
Library Administration and Management Association
Ontario Library Association
Toronto Library Continuing Education Group
Public Library Association
Quebec Library Association
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Université de Montréal Teachers’ Association
University of Toronto Faculty Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
In 1983, Professor Laurent Germain Denis was appointed as Senior Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1987 and 1988, he held the title of Special Libraries Association Toronto Member of the Year.
Other Areas of Activity
Professor Denis collaborated with his colleague, Professor Margaret Anderson, on a research project entitled “Ontario Public Libraries: Oral History Program.” It was supported by funding from the Ministry of Citizenship and Culture. He also presented extensively at numerous conferences on topics relating to library services and management, as well as on library science education and professional development.
Comments:
Professor Denis was the first Francophone to obtain a doctorate in library science. He was also the founding director of l'École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information at Université de Montréal, the only French language library school in Canada, where he introduced the Master of Library Science program. In 1990, a festschrift was published in his memory entitled Prospectives en bibliothéconomie et en sciences de l'information : mélanges dédiés à la mémoire de Laurent-G. Denis, edited by Paule Rolland-Thomas.
Sources:
Université de Montréal. “Laurent-G. Denis, 1929–1987.”Nos pionnières et nos pionniers. Accessed January 18, 2015.
University of Toronto Faculty of Library and Information Science. “Volume II: Curricula Vitarum.” In Self-Study Report Prepared for the Committee on Accreditation of the American Library Association. Toronto, 1986.
ELA biography compiled by Agatha Barc
Félix Desrochers, nd. Credit Biographies canadiennes-français 1948
b. April 13,1886 Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, QC; d. April 2, 1969, St. Hyacinthe, QC
Education:
1908 BA, LL.L, University of Montreal
Positions:
1908–1930 Lawyer, Montreal
1930–1933 Chief Librarian, Montreal Civic Library
1933–1956 General Librarian, Library of Parliament, Canada (NB: The General Librarian collaborated with the Librarian of Parliament and was always a francophone)
1938–1944 Parliamentary Librarian and General Librarian after the death of Martin S. Burrell
Professor of library science and President of the Lecture Society at the University of Ottawa.
Publications:
Desrochers, Félix (1937). “Retracing the Origin of Our Canadian Libraries,” Ontario Library Review 21, 3 (Aug.): 113–115.
Desrochers, Félix (1944). “A National Library for Canada,” Canadian Historical Review 25, 1 (March): 105–106.
Desrochers, Félix (1945). “La Bibliothèque nationale comme projet d‘après guerre dans l‘Association des bibliothécaires du Québec,” Compte rendu du congrès 1èr Congrès annuel / Quebec Library Association, First Conference, 1945, Proceedings, 10–18
Desrochers, Félix (1946). “Pour une bibliothèque nationale.” Revue de l’Université d’Ottawa 16, 4 (oct.-déc.): 432–448
Associations/Committees:
President of the Young Conservatives in 1917.
President of the Cartier-Macdonald Club in 1928.
President of the National Athletic Amateur Association from 1925 to 1929.
In 1948 Mr. Desrochers was a Canadian delegate to the third session of UNESCO in Beirut.
Vice president of the Historical Society of Ottawa and a member of the Institut Canadien-Français.
Member of the Catholic Circle of Commercial Travelers
Accomplishments/Honours:
He took an active part in politics for 25 years as a Conservative. He contested St. Hyacinthe County for the Provincial House in 1916 but was defeated. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for alderman in Montreal in 1928 and 1930.
He hosted more than a hundred conferences against blasphemy.
After his retirement from the Library of Parliament in 1956, he was the librarian of St. Hyacinthe Seminary.
He played clarinet with his two brothers in the trio Desrochers.
Sources:
Ross Gordon (2000). “Félix Desrochers: General Librarian 1933-1956.” Canadian Parliamentary 23, 3 (Fall).
Ottawa Citizen April 2, 1969 (obituary)
Biographies canadiennes-français. Montreal: Raphael Ouimet, 1926.
Les biographies françaises d'Amérique. Sherbrooke: Éditeurs: Les journalistes associés, 1950.
On May 6, 1885, a resolution was passed in the House of Commons that “the officers and servants of the Library of Parliament should consist of two officers, one to be called the General Librarian, the other the Parliamentary Librarian, and to hold a joint commission as ‘Librarians of Parliament” and to have equal powers…”
ELA biography compiled by Ross Gordon
b. Dec. 23, 1914, Imperial, SK; d. Mar. 22, 1994, Toronto, ON
Education:
1935 BA Queen's University
1937 Teaching Certificate, Ontario Department of Education
1946 MLS University of Southern California
1953 MEd Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Toronto)
1956 Summer course at University of London, UK)
Positions:
1937-1938 Teacher, Regular Occasional Staff, Toronto Board of Education
1938-1944 Teacher, Lord Dufferin Public School, Toronto
1944-1945 Mathematics Teacher, Oakwood Collegiate, Toronto
1946-1964 Teacher-Librarian, Oakwood Collegiate, Toronto
1956 Teacher Exchange, England
1964-1979 School Library Consultant, East York Board of Education
Associations/Committees:
1979-1988 Superannuated (later Retired), Teachers of Ontario, District 24, East York and Scarborough
Timothy Eaton Memorial Church: University Club, Pastoral Care Committee, Congregational Board Visiting Elder
Chair of the Canadian School Library Association Technical Services Committee
Accomplishments:
Helen Donaldson established a library as a separately furnished facility, including telephones, in every school (i.e. 25) in East York within Metropolitan Toronto and convinced administrators to build library resources, professional staff, support staff and extensive learning resources in all media. The system was a leading example for boards of Education throughout Metropolitan Toronto and Ontario. East York won the Encyclopedia Britannica Canadian School Library Award for Excellence in 1968. Helen Donaldson guided the teaching philosophy and policy for the libraries.
Other Activities:
Memberships: OLA and CLA and their school library divisions; Thornhill Country Club
Hobbies: Outdoor athletics, photography, travel, theatre, entertaining
Sources:
Arn Bailey, Member and Board Member, Ex Libris Association.
Death notice: “Donaldson, Helen E. J. (nee Eakin)”, Globe and Mail, March 24, 1994.
Death notice and picture with Larry Moore: “Helen Donaldson”, Inside OLA, January-April 1994, No.29, p.28.Hunnisett, The Rev. Dr. Jean E., “Words of Tribute” (eulogy given at funeral in Timothy Eaton Memorial Church).
Mary Donaldson, nd. Credit Canadian Library Association
b. Feb. 6, 1908, Brandon, MB; d. June 29, 1966, Calgary, AB
Education:
1928 BA (University of Alberta)
1929 BLS (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1929–1931 Cataloguer, Toronto Public Library
1931–1940 Cataloguer, Edmonton Public Library
1940–1944 Head of Circulation, Edmonton Public Library
1944–1945 Head Cataloguer, University of Saskatchewan
1945–1951 Chief Assistant, Saskatoon Public Library
1951–1966 Provincial Librarian, Saskatchewan
Publications:
Donaldson, Mary (1949). “UNESCO-IFLA international school for librarians.” Saskatchewan Library Association Bulletin 2: 3–4.
Donaldson, Mary (1954). “What Is a Provincial Library? [Saskatchewan].” Ontario Library Review 38 (2): 89–91.
Donaldson, Mary (1955). “Saskatchewan [library growth].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 11 (6): 306–307
Donaldson, Mary (1956). “The Year Ahead [1956–1957].” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 11th Annual Conference Meeting, Niagara Falls, June 11–15 , 1956, pp. 5–6. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Donaldson, Mary (1957). “Presidential Address.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 12th Annual Meeting, Victoria, June 11–15, 1957, pp. 3–6. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Donaldson, Mary (1961). “National conference on adult education, October 29–November 1, 1961.” Saskatchewan Library Association Bulletin 15 (1): 8–9.
Donaldson, Mary (1965). “Regional libraries in Canada.” Library Trends 13 (3): 318–327
Associations:
President, Saskatchewan Library Association, 1947–1948
President, Canadian Library Association, 1956–1957
American Library Association, councillor 1963–66
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario
Canadian Federation of University Women
United Nations Association
Honours:
After her death, the Saskatchewan Library Association established a Mary Donaldson Trust and began providing a public Memorial Lecture Series to honour her memory in 1967. These annual lectures are given by leaders in the field of library science and related fields. In 1977, the Mary Donaldson Award of Merit was established by the SLA to recognize support workers and the essential services that they perform in Saskatchewan libraries.
Comments:
“Miss Donaldson was one of the most highly respected librarians in Canada. As provincial librarian, she was dedicated and loyal and gave strong leadership in providing library service to rural areas and in developing community and regional libraries. Her death is a tragic loss to the province and to the library world.” — Hon. George Trapp, Minister of Education, Saskatchewan, 1966.
Sources:
Canadian Who’s Who 1958–1961
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Nov. 12, 1924; d. August 17, 2001
Education:
1969 MA in Historical Geography (McMaster University)
Positions:
1964-1986 Map Curator, McMaster University
Publications:
Donkin, Kate and Michael Goodchild (1967). “A computerized approach to increased map library utility.” In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Canadian Map Libraries, June 14-16, 1967:16-23.
Donkin, Kate and Michael Goodchild (1967). “A computerized approach to increased map library utility.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 4, 1: 39-45.
Donkin, Margaret Kathleen (1969). An analysis of the changing land-use morphology of Waterdown, 1795-1960. Hamilton: McMaster University, Dept. of Geography. [Thesis].
Gentilcore, R. Louis, Kate Donkin and Conrad E. Heidenreich (1973). Land surveys of southern Ontario: an introduction and index to the field notebooks of the Ontario land surveyors, 1784-1859. Toronto: B.V. Gutsell.
Gentilcore, Louis and Kate Donkin (1973). “Index to the field note books.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 10, 2: 37-104.
Gentilcore, Louis and Kate Donkin (1973). “Instructions on the use of the index as a key to the field notes.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 10, 2: 25-36.
Gentilcore, Louis and Kate Donkin (1973). “A procedure for mapping the vegetation of northern Simcoe County from the Ontario Land Survey.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 10, 2: 105-112.
Gentilcore, Louis and Kate Donkin (1973). “The Survey Notes: an introduction.” Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 10, 2: 1-24.
Donkin, Kate and Rita Finch (1976). Union list of atlases in Ontario universities. Toronto: Council of Ontario Universities.
Donkin, Sebert & Donkin. “Songs, being composed and rendered.” ACMLA Bulletin, no. 112, Fall 2001: 27-30.
Associations/Committees:
1970 Member, “Maps in Theses” Committee, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1972-1973 Vice-President, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1973-1975 Chair, National Union Catalogue Committee, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1974 Chair, Nominating Committee, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1977 Member, Constitution Committee, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1981-1982 Chair, Remunerations Committee, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
Honours:
1986 ACMLA Honours Award.
1988 ACMLA Honorary Membership Award.
Comments:
Kate was the first map librarian at McMaster University, and she “was one of the founding members of the Association [of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives]. Many map librarians today reap the benefit of [Kate’s] early efforts [and contributions to map librarianship in Canada].”
“One of her earliest projects was the creation of an automated map retrieval system, in conjunction with Michael Goodchild … now considered to be an ancestor of modern MARC for cartographic materials.” Kate also devoted a great deal of her time to the National Union Catalogue Committee. “Both of these ventures are characteristic of her career-long commitment to access issues, which for Kate meant finding ways to make people use and appreciate maps.”
Kate also “presented academic papers on the land surveys of southern Ontario with Professor Louis Gentilcore of McMaster University and on the evaluation of the Canadian 1:250, 000 topographic map series with Lou Sebert.”
``In the early 1970s she was given the responsibility of helping to establish the first science library at McMaster. She is remembered for vivacious personality, her good sense of humour and for being a tremendous conversationalist.``
Sources:
“Kate Donkin 1924-200l.” ACMLA Bulletin, no. 112, Fall 2001: 24-30..
“Obituaries: Kathleen (Kate) Moore Donkin.” GeoPlan, Spring 2002.
Sister Francis Dolores Donnelly, 1968. Credit Sisters of Charity Halifax Archives
b. Mar. 31, 1914, St. John’s, NL; d. Jan. 8, 1987, Mount St. Vincent Motherhouse, Halifax, NS
Education:
1936 BA (Mount St. Vincent College, Halifax, affiliated with Dalhousie University)
1940 BLS (Mount St. Vincent)
1954 MLS (Toronto)
1971 PhD Library Science (Illinois)
Positions:
1936 Entered Sisters of Charity, Mount St. Vincent, Halifax
1940-1950 Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, N.S., Pioneering work in adult education, school and children’s libraries
1941-1950 Librarian and Director of Adult Education, and co-founder of the Antigonish Movement, Reserve Mines, Cape Breton, N.S.
1950-1957 Assistant Librarian, Mount St Vincent College (later University)
1951-1956 Professor, Mount St. Vincent Library School
1957-1968 University Librarian, Mount St. Vincent College
1971-1976 Associate Professor, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto
1976-1982 Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, Toronto
1982-1987 Professor Emerita
Publications:
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1956). “The College Library [Borrower and the Catalog].” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 20, no. 3 (Spring): 42–43.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1956). “What Library Schools Expect from the Employer.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 20, no. 4 (Summer): 68–71.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1958). “Case for the Four-Year Degree in Librarianship.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 14, no. 5 (April): 227–228.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1958). “Mount Saint Vincent Library School.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 14, no. 5 (April): 217–219.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1969). “Innovation vs. Tradition: Needed, New Definitions of Librarianship.” APLA Bulletin 33, no. 2 (June): 6–12.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1971). “The National Library of Canada: forces in its emergence and in the identification of its role and responsibilities.” Microfilm edition. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1973). The National Library of Canada: a historical analysis of the forces which contributed to its establishment and to the identification of its role and responsibilities. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. Based on her 1971 dissertation.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1975). Canadian library history and the historical research method [sound recording]. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1977). “Canadian National Library Services” In: Canadian libraries in their changing environment. pp. 271–311. Edited by Loraine Spencer Gary and Carl Gary. Toronto: York University Press.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1981). “The British Library: Phenomenon of the seventies or prototype of national library planning.” In Journal of Library History, 16 (2): 380-393.
Donnelly, Francis Dolores (1983). “The National Library in the library community: current developments and trends.” Archivaria 15 In: Essays in honour of W. Kaye Lamb. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada. Monograph published and presented to Dr. Lamb.
Associations/Committees:
Canadian Library Association; 1969-1970, Member, Board of Directors.
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario (IPLO); 1973-1975 Member, Board of Directors,
American Library Association; 1975-1976 Member, Committee on Accreditation
Journal of Library History; 1977-1983, Member, Board of Directors.
Honours:
1954 Beta Phi Mu, Honor Society in Library Science
1969 Howard Phalin World Book Graduate Scholarship in Library Science (First Recipient)
1970 Anita and Lionel Shapiro Fellowship and Katherine L. Sharp Fellowship, University of Illinois
1971 Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society (USA), Interdisciplinary, University of Illinois
1973 National Library of Canada research grant for study of the British Library
1977 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant for study of the British Library
Comments:
Her original name was Marie Dolores Lorraine Donnelly. In 1936, she began her postulancy in the Sisters of Charity, Halifax, taking the religious name Francis Dolores. She became a noviate in 1937 and took her vows in April 1939. During her time at the “Mount” she worked to establish an active alumni association. In 1951 the library was destroyed by fire. Sister Francis Dolores worked with Sister Francis de Sales to rebuild the collection. In 1957, Sister Francis de Sales retired and Sister Francis Dolores took over as College Librarian until 1968, when she left Nova Scotia to pursue her doctorate at the University of Illinois. In 1971, Sister Francis completed her doctoral studies. She joined the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto and retired in 1982.
While at the Faculty, she taught courses in Research Collections in Canadiana, Canadian Literature in the Humanities and The Social Environment and Libraries. Throughout her professional life she was active in various associations and gave papers and lectures on new trends and services in libraries. Most notable was her study of the National Library of Canada. In 1981, Sister Francis Dolores began updating the history of the Sisters of Charity in Halifax but she was unable to complete the project before her death.
Sources:
Sister Francis Dolores Donnelly fonds, Sisters of Charity, Halifax, Congregational Archives
Curriculum vitae, Faculty of Library and Information Studies, University of Toronto
F. (Francis) Dolores Donnelly.biography at HLWIKI. Accessed November 28, 2013.
Bertha Mabel Dunham, c. 1920 Credit Ontario Library Association
b. May 29, 1881, Minto Twp. (near Harriston), ON; d. June 21, 1957, Kitchener, ON
Education:
1908 BA (Victoria College, University of Toronto)
1908 McGill University summer school for librarian
Positions:
1898–1904 Elementary teacher, Berlin Model School (now Suddaby Public School)
1908–1944 Chief Librarian, Kitchener Public Library
1911–1912 &1914 Chief instructor at Ontario Department of Education training course for librarianship
Publications:
Dunham, B. Mabel (1910). “Leaves from the diary of a librarian.” Acta Victoriana 33: 270-276.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1910). “Methods of reaching the people.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 68-76.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1912). “The Ontario Library Summer School, 1911.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 63-66.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1915). “The library and the school.” The School: a Magazine Devoted to Elementary and Secondary Education 4, no. 2: 118-120.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1917). “What is the place and use of newspapers and periodicals in our public libraries in towns.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 68-76.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1918). “William Wilfred Campbell, 1861–1918: An appreciation.” Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 6: 44–47.
Dunham, B. Mabel (Jan. 1924). “Some ‘plain’ people of Canada.” Canadian Magazine 62: 188-195.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1927). “The public school and the public library.” Proceedings of the Ontario Educational Association Annual Meeting held at Toronto, 18th-21st April, 1927: 66-76.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1934). “Kitchener (Berlin) Public Library [history].” Typescript.
Dunham B. Mabel (1937). “Co-operation in the libraries of Waterloo County.” Ontario Library Review 21, no. 3: 120-122.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1938). “Waterloo County’s library scheme.” Ontario Library Review 22, no. 3: 197-199.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1945). “The Mid-European backgrounds of Waterloo County.” Ontario Historical Society Papers and Records 37: 59-70.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1945). “The story of Conestoga.” Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 33: 16-23.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1948). “The Pequegnat family.” Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 36: 50-55.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1950). “Beginnings in Ontario.” Mennonite Life 5, no. 4: 14-16.
Literary works:
Dunham, B. Mabel (1924). The trail of the Conestoga. Toronto: Macmillan.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1927). Toward Sodom. Toronto: Macmillan.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1931). The trail of the king’s men. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Dunham, B. Mabel, ed. (1941). So great a heritage: historical narrative of Trinity United Church, 1841-1941. Kitchener: Trinity United Church.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1945). Grand River. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Dunham, B. Mabel (1948). Kristli’s trees. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Associations/Committees:
1920-1921 President, Ontario Library Association
1922-1924 President, K-W University Women’s Club (also 1932-1934)
1947–50 President, Waterloo Historical Society
Honours:
1947 DLitt, University of Western Ontario
1948 Book of the Year Medal for “Kristil’s Trees” awarded by Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians
In 1953, the City of Kitchener declared her birthday to be ‘B. Mabel Dunham Day’ in tribute to all her contributions to the city.
The Kitchener-Waterloo Federation of University Women administers the Dr. B. Mabel Dunham Award for female high school graduates.
Dunham is inducted as a member of the Waterloo Region Hall of Fame.
Accomplishments:
Mabel Dunham was the first trained chief librarian appointed to lead an Ontario public library. She was the third woman to be president of a provincial library association in Canada. She was the first woman to serve on a public board in Kitchener, being twice elected to the public school board. She was one of the early leaders in efforts to train and educate librarians in Ontario before World War I. She helped organize systematic cooperation to distribute books throughout Waterloo County in the late 1930s prior to the formation of a county library service. She was one of the founders of Kitchener’s Women’s Canadian Club (later president); president (and founder) of the Waterloo Historical Society; and a founder of the K-W Business and Professional Women’s Club.
Dunham wrote five books depicting the history and heritage of her region. Her first novels, “Trail of the Conestoga” and “Toward Sodom,” described the migration of the Mennonites to the K-W area centred in Berlin (now Kitchener). The “Trail of the King’s Men” recounted the arrival of the United Empire Loyalists from the United States. The “Grand River” was an exploration of a river and its surrounding countryside. “Kristli’s Trees” was an enjoyable story of a Mennonite boy and his family on a small farm illustrated by Selwyn Dewdney.
Although Dunham made no major contribution to librarianship on a national scale, she greatly influenced its development on a local scale through the force of her personality as well as making a noteworthy literary contribution to regional historical fiction.
Sources:
Kitchener Public Library holds information on Dunham and there are library board minutes for her tenure. The Ontario Archives has some speeches and correspondence as part of the Ontario Library Association records.
Banting, Constance (Feb. 1928). “Mabel Dunham.” Ontario Library Review 12, no. 2: 66.
“Honour to Whom Honour is Due” (1953). Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 41: 7-8.
Snider, Lillian (Aug. 1954). “Miss Mabel Dunham.” Ontario Library Review 38, no. 3: 221-24.
Shoemaker, Dorothy and Grace Schmidt (1989). “Dr. B. Mabel Dunham (1881-1957).” Ex Libris News no. 5: 5-7.
Taylor, Ryan (1981). “Mabel Dunham’s Centenary.” Waterloo Historical Society Annual Report 69: 13-25 [extensive bibliography].
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Oct 3, 1940, Sarnia, ON; d. Sept. 7, 2005, Ottawa, ON
Education:
1962 BA (Victoria University, Toronto);
1967 MLS (McGill University)
Positions:
1963-1965 Dalhousie University Library
1965-1969 Reference Librarian, Sir George Williams University Library
1969-1972 Head of Serials Department, Carleton University Library
1972-1973 Head of Serials, University of Waterloo Library
1973-1974 Assistant Librarian, Planning, University of Waterloo Library
1974-1979 Director, Cataloguing Branch, National Library of Canada
1979-1982 Director, National Library Network Project, National Library of Canada
1982-1986 Director, Office for Network Development, National Library of Canada
1986-1987 Co-Director, Information Technology, National Library of Canada
1987-1988 Chair Committee on Facilitation/Coordination, National Library of Canada
1988-2000 Assistant Director General, Government Records Branch, National Archives of Canada
Publications:
Durance, Cynthia J. (1980) Canadian network papers: policy, by C Durance and M Hillman. Revision of document no. EC:80/47. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Durance, Cynthia J. (1982). Initiatives toward a bibliographic communications network for Canada. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. (Canadian Network Papers, no. 2)
Durance, Cynthia J. (1987). ISDS planning framework study. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Durance, Cynthia J. (1987) Le lien: d'hier à aujourd'hui: rapport des activités se rattachant au programme de réseaux de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. Ottawa: Bibliothèque nationale du Canada.
Durance, Cynthia J. (1987) Linking: then and now: a status report on the networking program at the National Library of Canada. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Durance, Cynthia J., compiler (1990) Management of recorded information: converging disciplines: proceedings of the International Council on Archives' Symposium on Current Records: National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, May 15-17, 1989. München: K.G. Saur.
Durance, Cynthia J., ed. (1976). Subgroup on Union List of Serials. Report. Canadian Union Catalogue Task Group. Ottawa: National Library of Canada
Durance, Cynthia J. (1976) Subject authority control in the Canadian context. Paper given for the Technical Services Coordinating Group Workshop, Canadian Library Association, Conference, Halifax, June 1976. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Durance, Cynthia J. (1992?) Wisdom, knowledge, information and data: transformation and convergence in Archives and Libraries of the Western World/ Cynthia J. Durance and Hugh A. Taylor. Ottawa?: s.n.
Associations, Committees:
Canadian Library Association, American Library Association, American Society for Information Science, IFLA Section on Information Technology Standing Committee, IFLA Section on Serial Publications Standing Committee, Governing Board ISDS
International Centre, IFLA Working Group on the ISBD (Component Parts), Zonta Club of Ottawa
Accomplishments:
1973 Chair Sub-Committee on the Union List of Serials of the Task Group on the Canadian Union Catalogue
1980-1982 Vice-President, ISDS Governing Board
1981-1987 Secretary, Bibliographic and Communications Network Committee of the National Library Advisory Board
1982 Chairman, 4th meeting of UNISIST International Serials Data System (ISDS) General Assembly, April 27-28, 1982, Paris
1982-1984 Chair of the Governing Board, ISDS International Centre
1985 three month exchange with the National Library of Australia
1986-1988 Director, UDT Program of IFLA1987-1989 Chair, Standing Committee, IFLA Section on Information Technology
Other Areas of Interest:
In retirement she hosted foreign students in her home and enjoyed introducing them to life in Canada.
Sources:
Librarian gets National Library cataloguing post. Kitchener Waterloo Record, October 21, 1974
National Library News. November/December 1974
National Library News, November 1982
National Library News, May 1988
Obituary, Globe and Mail. September 13, 2005
ELA biography compiled by Carrol Lunau.
Sheila A. Egoff. Credit Canadian Children's Literature, 1994
b. January 20, 1918, Auburn, Maine; d. May 22, 2005, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1937 Graduate of Galt Collegiate (now in Cambridge, Ontario}
1938 Diploma in Librarianship, University of Toronto
1948 BA (University of Toronto);
1949 Diploma in Librarianship (University College, London)
1950 FLA, Fellow of the Library Association (UK)
Positions:
1938–1942, Librarian. Galt Public Library
1942–1952, Children's Librarian, Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library
1952–1957, Reference Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1957–1962, Editor, Canadian Library Association
1962–1984, Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia
Publications:
Egoff, Sheila A. (1951). “Books of Yesterday.” Library Journal 77, no. 4 (February 15): 275–277.
Egoff, Sheila A. and Elizabeth H. Morton (1958). “Library Education Abroad.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 14, no. 5 (April): 223–224.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1960). “Read It on Microfilm.” American Library Association Bulletin 54, no. 4 (April): 286–286.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1967). The Republic of Childhood: A Critical Guide to Canadian Children’s Books. Toronto: Oxford University Press [revised as The New Republic of Childhood, 1990, with Judith Saltman]
Egoff, Sheila A. (1967). Canadian Folklore. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. [Presented at the IFLA/FIAB Council, Public Library and Children’s Section, August 18, 1967]
Egoff, Sheila A. (1972). “Home Thoughts from Aboard [on Books and Publishing].” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 27th Annual Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan, June 10–16, 1972, 97–101. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1972) “Reflections and Distortions: Canadian Folklore as Portrayed in Children’s Literature.” International Library Review 4, no. 3: 265–279.
Egoff, Sheila A. and Alvine Belise (1973). Notable Canadian children's books = Un choix de livres canadiens pour la jeunesse; an annotated catalogue. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1973). “La Littérature de Jeunesse Au Canada-Anglais.” Documentation et Bibliothèques 19, no. 4 (déc.): 169–171.
Egoff, Sheila A. ed. (1979). One Ocean Touching: Papers from the First Pacific Rim Conference on Children’s Literature [held at University of British Columbia, 1976]. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press.
Egoff, Sheila A.(1981). Thursday's child: trends and patterns in contemporary children's literature. Chicago: American Library Association.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1982). “‘Which One’s the Mockingbird?’ Children’s Literature from the 1920s to the Present.” Theory into Practice 21, no. 4: 239–246.
Egoff, Sheila A. (1988). World within: children's fantasy from the Middle Ages to today. Chicago: American Library Association.
Egoff, Sheila A., Margaret Burke, Ronald Hagler and Joan Pert. (1992). Canadian children's books, 1799-1939, in the Special Collections and University Archives Division, University of British Columbia library: a bibliographical catalogue. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library.
Egoff, Sheila A. G.T. Stubbs and L.F. Ashley, eds. (1996). Only connect: readings on children's literature 2d ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Egoff, Sheila A. (2005). Once upon a time: my life with children's books. Orca Book Publishers.
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, Library Association (UK), British Columbia Library Association, Association of British Columbia Librarians
Honours:
1994 Officer of the Order of Canada
1982 American Library Association Ralph R. Shaw Award for Library Literature (for Thursday's Child)
1983 University of Utah, 5th Landau Award for Excellence in Teaching and Young Adult Literature
2002 Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Golden Jubilee Medal
Honorary Doctorates from the University of Victoria (1997), University of Alberta (1985), and University of New Brunswick (1986)
Accomplishments and Comments:
Professor Egoff was instrumental in negotiating the transfer of the Osborne Collection of Early English Children's Books to Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Library, 1949.
“Sheila Egoff was the first critic of children's literature from Canada to be recognized internationally. Her contribution to children's literature scholarship is broad ranging, involving many interests and approaches, from Canadian and international children's literature to scholarly bibliography of early and rare children's book collections. Sheila has written seminal works of children's literature scholarship for over fifty years, beginning in the 1950s, a time when little serious scholarship was available, and children's literature was not respected in the academy. Through her teaching, advocacy, and scholarship, she was one of the early ground-breaking academics and critics who worked to bring the present acceptance and recognition of children's literature as a legitimate scholarly discipline into being.” — Judith Saltman in ABC Bookworld, May 2005
Sources:
Saltman, Judith. (2005). Sheila Egoff, pioneer Canadian children's literature critic and professor of children's literature. Toronto: Canadian Children's Book Centre. Accessed July 25, 2013.
Obituary by Sandra Martin. Globe and Mail, May 28, 2005. Accessed August 15, 2023.
Directory of Library and Information Professionals (1988). Chicago: American Library Association. v. 1.
Sheila Egoff biography at HLWIKI Canada. Accessed July 25, 2023.
b. 1916, Port Williams. NS; d. Oct. 15, 2004 Kentville, NS
Education:
1937 BA 1937 (Acadia)
1939 MA 1939 (Acadia)
1940 BLS 1940 (Simmons College)
Positions:
1940-1946 Librarian, Brookline (Mass) Public Library
1946-1948 Assistant Librarian, University of Rhode Island
1948-1949 Acting Librarian, University of Rhode Island
1949-1950 Asst Editor of Canadian Index, Canadian Library Association
1950-1954 Chief Librarian, Colchester East-Hants Regional Library, Truro, NS
1954-1982 Legislative Librarian, Nova Scotia Legislative Library
Publications:
Elliot, Shirley B. (1956). Nova Scotia Legislative Library: a finding list of Royal Commissions appointed by the province of Nova Scotia, 1908-1954. Halifax: Nova Scotia Legislative Library.
Elliott, Shirley B., ed. and comp. (1959). Nova Scotia book of days: a calendar of the province's history. Halifax: Nova Scotia Communications 7 Information Centre.
Elliott, Shirley B., comp. and ed. (1979). Nova Scotia book of days: a calendar of the province's history . Halifax: Nova Scotia Communications & Information Centre.
Elliott, Shirley B. (1979). Province House, Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Halifax: NS: Nova Scotia Legislative Library]
Elliott, Shirley B., ed. and reviser. (1984). The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758-1983: A biographical directory. Halifax: Province of Nova Scotia.
Elliott, Shirley B. (1986). Nova Scotia in Books: a quarter century's gatherings, 1957-1982.Halifax: Department of Education.
Elliott, Shirley B. (1988). Nova Scotia in London: a history of it Agents General, 1762-1988.London: Office of the Agent General of Nova Scotia
Elliott, Shirley and Ellen Webster. (1967). Nova Scotia in Books: from the first printing in 1752 to the present. Halifax: Halifax Library Association in cooperation with the Nova Scotia Provincial Library.
Associations/Committees:
Atlantic Provinces Checklist, editor, 1957-
Halifax Library Association, member; president 1957/58
APLA, member
CLA, member. Served on Nominating, Certification, Library Legislation and Government Reference committees (Recorder 1960-62; Chair 1962-64)
Bibliographical Society of Canada (Council 1963- )
Contributor to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Honours:
2003 Order of Nova Scotia
1984 Honorary DCL Acadia University
1985 Honorary LLD Dalhousie University
1988 CASLIS Special Award for Librarianship in Canada
Accomplishments:
“She catalogued all the valuable materials scattered around Province House and integrated them into a collection of Nova Scotiana unparalleled in the province.” (Globe and Mail)
Other areas of activity:
1962 Served as Conference Librarian on staff of Duke of Edinburgh's Second Commonwealth Study Conference
Canadian Federation of University Women
Wolfville Historical Society
Comments:
Ms. Elliott commented in a 1994 interview, “When I came in, there was nothing mechanical at all in the library and nothing had been catalogued. I had to have something, so I bought a very small, innocent looking typewriter.” When her predecessor visited the library, Ms Elliott recalled, she said “Oh, oh, I can't bear it!” “ It was all the change you see,” Ms. Elliott said.
(Globe and Mail )
Sources:
Obit. Globe and Mail, Nov. 24, 2004
CASLIS Notes [1988?]
b. July 22, 1935, Finedon, England; d. Oct. 8, 2004, Ottawa, ON
Education:
Honours BA (King's College/London School of Economics Joint School of Geography)
Post-graduate Certificate in Education (King's College)
1978 MA in Geography (Carleton University)
Positions:
Geography teacher
1970-1996 Map Librarian, Carleton University
1972-1987 Sessional Lecturer in Cartography, Department of Geography, Carleton University
Publications:
Farrell, Barbara (1978). Cognitive development in map studies: an examination of cognitive objectives and sequences in a school map studies curriculum. (Thesis (MA) Carleton University). Ottawa.
Farrell, Barbara (1979). “The National Commission for Cartography: report for the period June 1978-May 1979.”ACML Bulletin 30 (March): 44-46.
Farrell, Barbara (1980). “Introduction to cartography: the introductory cartography course at Carleton.” In The introductory cartography course at Canadian universities, pp. 34-41. Ottawa: Canadian Cartographic Association.
Farrell, Barbara (1981). “European map libraries co-operate: the establishment of the group of map librarians within LIBER - Groupe des cartothécaires de LIBER.” ACML Bulletin 38 (March): 39-42.
Farrell, Barbara and Aileen Desbarats (1981). Guide for a small map collection. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries.
Farrell, Barbara (1982). “Telidon and maps: a library experiment.” ACML Bulletin 44 (September): 15-19.
Farrell, Barbara (1983). Master's and bachelor's theses, 1965-83. Ottawa: Dept. of Geography, Carleton University.
Farrell, Barbara and Aileen Desbarats (1984). Guide for a small map collection. 2nd ed. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries.
Farrell, Barbara (1987). “Map evaluation.” In World mapping today. London: Butterworths. pp. 27-34.
Farrell, Barbara and Aileen Desbarats, eds. (1988). Explorations in the history of Canadian mapping: a collection of essays. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives.
Farrell, Barbara (1992). Foreign topographic maps in Ontario university map collections. [Toronto]: OCUL Map Group.
Farrell, Barbara (1994). “Digital cartographic information in the map library.” ACMLA Bulletin 91 (September): 1-9.
Farrell, Barbara (1997). “Rand McNally world contemporary atlas with CD-ROM [book review].” Canadian Geographic 117, no. 5 (September/October): 86.
Kerfoot, Helen and Barbara Farrell (1994). Survey undertaken on access to Canadian geographical names, and in particular on potential users' need for a national gazetteer. United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, Seventeenth Session, New York, 13-24 June 1994, working paper 30.
Stibbe, Hugo and Barbara Farrell (1975). “National Union Catalogue Committee.” ACML Bulletin 17 (February): 37.
Associations/Committees:
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) (formerly Association of Canadian Map Libraries (ACML))
ACML Vice-President 1974-1975
ACML President 1975-1976
ACML Past President 1976-1978
Chaired the following committees: National Union Catalogue Committee; Handbook Committee; Nominations Committee; Awards Committee
Member of the following committees: Map Users' Advisory Committee; Canadian Committee for Bibliographic Control for Cartographic Materials (CCBCCM); Facsimile Committee; Micro reproduction Sub-Committee; Historical Maps Committee; Directory Committee; Software Forum; Conference Programme Committee, 1991; Conference Committee, 1993
ACML Bulletin editor: numbers 16 (November 1974)-18 (May 1975)
Other Associations/Committees:
Anglo-American Cataloguing
Committee for Cartographic Materials
Geographical Names Board of Canada
OCUL Map Group
Honours/Accomplishments:
Carleton University Professional Librarian Achievement Award, 1977, 1987, 1994 and 1997
ACMLA Honours Award, 1989
Carleton University Plaque, 1996, “dedicated to Barbara Farrell, graduate of Carleton, author, geographer, cartographer, founder and ardent promoter of the University Map Collection. She served this University from 1970 to 1996.” Plaque was mounted in the Maps, Data, and Government Publications Centre.
ACMLA lifetime Honorary Member, 2004
Comments:
The obituary notice in Carleton Now provides an excellent summary of Barbara's commitment to her profession.
“Farrell founded the Map Library at Carleton University, building it over 26 years into a strong, well-respected collection. Her dedication to excellence and leadership among her staff and colleagues at Carleton were exemplary. As one of the leading Canadian map librarians, she was a model for new and aspiring map librarians, demonstrating how a map collection should be developed and managed. The collection she built, initially within the Department of Geography and now part of the Library's Maps, Data and Government Information Centre, holds to principles she established for it prior to her retirement in 1996.”
In the obituary notice to the cartographic community, Susan Jackson, one of Barbara's colleagues, stated “Barbara served her collection and clients with passion and commitment. Barbara lived and breathed her love of maps and map-making, which tied closely to her artistic flair for painting and photography, fields she was actively engaged in since her retirement in 1996.”
In ACMLA Bulletin 130 (Fall 2007), it was reported that Barbara was one of six individuals awarded Honoury Membership in the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives. “All were extremely active and involved members. From the outset they assumed leadership roles within the Association and championed the Association beyond the confines of institutional walls.”
Sources:
ACMLA Bulletins. Accessed August 2, 2013.
Aegidius Fauteux, n.d. Credit Biographies canadiennes-françaises, 1924
b. Sept. 27, 1876, Sainte-Cunégonde, QC (now Montréal, QC); d. April 22, 1941, Montréal
Education:
1883-1887 Educated at the classical school Collège de Montréal
1887-1893 Studied theology at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal
1903 Called to the bar after graduating in law at Université Laval de Montréal [did not practice]
1936 Litt.D. (hon.), Université de Montréal
Positions:
1902-1904 Founder and editor for newspaper Le Rappel
1905-1909 Journalist for the newspaper La Patrie
1909-1912 Editor-in-chief for La Presse
1912-1931 Head Librarian, Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice
1932-1941 Head Librarian, Bibliothèque centrale de Montréal
1937-1941 Co-founder and Director, École de bibliothéconomie de l’Université de Montréal
Publications (major works):
Fauteux, A. (1916). “Les Bibliothèques canadiennes et leur histoire (1534-1763, 1763-1916).” Revue canadienne 17 (2&3): 97–114, 193–217.
Fauteux, A. (1917). La famille d'Aillebout: étude généalogique et historique. Montréal: G. Ducharme.
Fauteux, A. (1922). Journal du siège de Québec du 10 mai au 18 septembre, 1759. Québec: s.n.
Fauteux, A. (1930). The introduction of printing into Canada: a brief history. Montreal: Rolland.
Fauteux, A. (1934). Le duel au Canada. Montréal: Zodiaque.
Fauteux, A. (1940). Les chevaliers de Saint-Louis en Canada. Montréal: Les éditions des Dix.
Fauteux, A., Juliette Chabot. (1952). Classification des livres, plan systématique en usage à la Bibliothéque de Montréal. Montréal: Bibliothéque de Montréal.
Associations/Committees:
1932 Founding member, Quebec Library Association
1934 Second vice-president, Canadian Library Council
Memberships in American Library Association, Société historique de Montréal, Royal Society of Canada, Antiquarian and Numismatic Society of Montreal, and the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Honours:
1918 Member of Royal Society of Canada
1930 Officier de l’Académie française
1935 Société des Dix, Quebec
1936 Lorne Pierce Medal in History
1937 J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal of the Royal Society of Canada
1966 The Annexe Aegidius-Fauteux de la Bibliothèque nationale du Québec (Montréal) named in his honor opens on 14 November
1955 Person of National Historic Significance, Canada
2001 Rue Aegidius-Fauteux, Montreal, is named in his honour
Accomplishments:
Aegidius Fauteux was a noted historian, librarian, and journalist who published many historical, genealogical, biographical, and bibliographical works over the course of four decades, 1900-1940. Under his direction, from 1912 to 1931, the Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice grew into an essential research library and vibrant cultural centre. Fauteux kept pace with progressive library developments: he was an early Canadian adopter of the Dewey Decimal system and standard cataloguing rules promoted by the American Library Association. Fauteux established the first francophone library school in Canada in 1937 and directed its curriculum. More than a century after his devotion to building collections began, his efforts form one of the cornerstones of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Comments:
“His real bent was for scholarship and research, and he had no hesitation in giving up a successful journalistic career to become the founder and first librarian of the noted St. Sulpice library in 1912. It was well for Canada’s history that he did so, for the Dominion has had no more faithful chronicler.” – Editorial in Montreal Gazette marking his death, 23 April 1941.
Sources:
The Fonds Aegidius Fauteux (BM001) is held by the Archives de Montréal. (extensive holdings)
Maurault, O. (1941). “Aegidius Fauteux (1876-1941).” Mémoires de La Société royale du Canada, 3rd series 35, App. 3, pp.103-111.
Auger, R. (1967). “L’annexe Aegidius-Fauteux de la bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice.” Bulletin de l’Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française 13(1): 8-11.
Lassonde, J.R. (1987). La Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, 1910–1931. 2nd ed. Montreal: Bibliothèque nationale du Québec.
Lajeunesse, M. (2012). “The Contribution of Aegidius Fauteux and Edmond Desrochers to Quebec Librarianship in the Twentieth Century.” Information & Culture 47(3): 340–57.
b. Jan. 27, 1927, Lindsay, ON; d. July 23, 2005, Toronto, ON
Education:
BA Modern History, 1948, BLS, 1949 (Toronto)
Positions:
1949-1982 Librarian, Reference Department, Toronto Public Library
1952-1976 Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscript Collection, Toronto Public Library (later The Baldwin Room)
1977-1982 Head, Canadian History Department, Toronto Public Library
Publications:
Firth, Edith G. ed. (!961). Early Toronto newspapers, 1973-1867: a catalogue of newspapers published in the town of York and the city of Toronto from the beginning to Confederation. Edited by Edith G. Firth, with an introduction by Harry C. Campbell. Toronto: Baxter Pub. Co.in cooperation with the Toronto Public Library.
Firth, Edith G. (1962). The town of York. 1793-1815: a collection of documents of early Toronto. Toronto: The Champlain Society.
Firth, Edith G. comp. (1963). The North West Passage, 1534-1859: a catalogue of an exhibition of books and manuscripts in the Toronto Public Library. Compiled by Edith G Firth, with an introduction by H.C. Campbell. Toronto: Baxter Pub. Co. in cooperation with the Toronto Public Library.
Firth, Edith G. comp. (1965). A Century of Ontario broadsides, 1793-1893: a typographic exhibition in the Toronto Public Library, June 1965. Compiled by Edith G. Firth. Toronto.
Firth, Edith G. (1966). The Town of York, 1815-1834: a further collection of early Toronto. Toronto: Champlain Society.
Firth, Edith G. ed. (1967). St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto: its history and restoration. [historical pictures and data]. Edited by A.Maurice Thompson. Toronto: Armath Associates.
Firth, Edith G. (1983). Toronto in art: 150 years through artists’ eyes. Markham, Ont: Fitzhenhenry & Whiteside in co-operation with the City of Toronto.
Honours:
1963 American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Merit
1967 Canadian Historical Association Certificate of Merit for Local History
1967 Centennial Medal
1974 Toronto Historical Board. Award of Merit
1984 City of Toronto Book Award
1989 LLD Trent University
Associations/Committees:
Champlain Society Council and Publishing Committee, General Editor, Ontario Series,1963-1971
Bibliographical Society Canada, Council member, 1964-1967; 1973-1977
Ontario Historical Society, Executive Committee, 1965-1967; Editorial Board, 1972-1977
Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario, Member and Director
Ontario Historical Studies Series, Director
National Archival Appraisal Board
Presbyterian Church General Assembly Committee on History
Comments:
Sandra Alston of the Bibliographic Society wrote that at the Baldwin Room of the Toronto Public Library, Firth ”trained a number of staff to strive for excellence in public service and commitment to the historical record.” Jane McNamara of the Ontario Historical Society described her work as including some of the most important reference works on the history of Toronto. Her work for the Champlain Society “contained transcriptions of a wide range of documents from TPL, the Archives of Ontario, Libraries and Archives Canada and other repositories. The documents are put into their historical perspective in an insightful introduction and are extensively footnoted.” Further, her contribution to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography was immense. “Her intellect and scholarship live on in her fine books, in the manuscript and rare book collections she helped establish at the Toronto Public Library, and in the standards she encouraged in the Toronto historians who worked with and followed her.”
Sources:
Obituary, Globe and Mail, April 19, 2006
BIBSOCAN: Bibliographical Society of Canada.
MacNamara, Jane. “Edith Firth, 1927-2005.” Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Tree, v.36 (5).Sept/.Oct. 2005, p. 58.
Edith G. Firth (1927-2005). Library Thing. Accessed June 5, 2013.
b. Sept. 19,1919, Sioux Lookout, ON; d. Sept. 18, 2009, Kanata, ON
Education:
1949 BA (Victoria College, University of Toronto)
1950 BLS (University of Toronto, School of Library Science)
Positions:
1941-1945 Canadian Army, 12th Manitoba Dragoons, World War II
1950-1957 Teacher/Librarian at the Port Arthur Collegiate Institute (later Thunder Bay) where he also set up a forestry research library
1957-1963 CCF Member of Parliament
1963-1965 Deputy Leader, NDP
1961-1971 Freelance Journalist, Toronto Telegram
1971-2006 Ottawa Columnist, Toronto Sun
1974-1977 Founding Director of Hockey Canada
Publications:
Wise, Sydney F. and Douglas Fisher (1974). Canada`s sporting heroes. Don Mills: General Pub. Co.
Honours:
2001 Distinguished Service Award, Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians
Accomplishments:
He was known as the dragon slayer. “In 1957, he defeated liberal powerhouse and ‘Minister of everything’ C.D. Howe in the Port Arthur riding that Mr. Howe had held for more than two decades.” He was described as a “House of Commons man” who befriended and supported MPs from all parties. “He resigned his seat to focus on his career as a political commentator, writing a nationally syndicated column three times a week for 44 years … and hosting a weekly political television show for more than 25 years at CJOH in Ottawa. He retired as the Dean of the parliamentary press gallery in 2006. Beyond politics and journalism, Doug made little known but large contributions to public policy in sport and recreation, forestry, libraries, educational television, government and parliamentary reform and veterans affairs. He co-authored “Canada’s Sporting Heroes” with his late friend SF Wise. As founding director of Hockey Canada, Doug brokered the deal for the 1972 Canada-Russia hockey series and then the Canada Cup, opening a new era in international hockey. He also helped establish the first national coaching programmes for Sport Canada.”
“Mr. Fisher was so widely read, so knowledgeable about parliamentary procedure and so bitingly articulate that his column in The Sun was a must read until he finally signed off, at age 86, July 30, 2006.“
Sources:
Obituary, Globe and Mail, Sept. 19, 2009
"Douglas Fisher (politician)". Wikipedia. Accessed Feb. 5, 2016.
Douglas Fisher – Parliament of Canada Biography
Martin, Sandra. Douglas Fisher, 1919-2009. The Globe and Mail, September 18, 2009. Accessed Feb. 5, 2016.
Flora Blizzard Francis, about 2010
b. Sept. 24, 1932, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; d. April 1, 2016, Guelph, ON
Education:
1958 ALA Associate of the Library Association (UK), Eastern Caribbean Regional Library School, Port of Spain (now the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago)
1965 BA Waterloo Lutheran University (now Wilfrid Laurier University)
1969 BLS University of Toronto
1978 MLS University of Toronto
Positions:
1952–1958 Librarian, Trinidad Central and Public Library, Port of Spain (now the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago)
1959–1968 Reference Assistant, Massey Library, Ontario Agricultural College and Federated Colleges (after 1964 the University of Guelph)
1969–1994 Librarian, University of Guelph Library (various positions, especially map librarian).
Publications:
Blizzard, Flora (1969). “Library Students Meet the Profession.” Ontario Library Review 53, no. 3 (Sept.): 131–134.
Blizzard, Flora (1970). West Indians in Canada: A Selected Annotated Bibliography. Guelph: University of Guelph Library.
Blizzard, Flora (1973). “Report on the Library Technician Survey in Ontario,” OLA Newsletter 11 (July): 14.
Francis, Flora (1980). “The Map Collection at the University of Guelph: An Evaluation,” Bulletin of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries 37 (Dec.): 23–33.
Francis, Flora (2000). A Black Canadian Bibliography. Ottawa: Pan-African Publications (foreword by Rita M. Cox).
Francis, Flora, Janet Simms-Baldwin (Chair) and others (2013). The Soroptimist Foundation of Canada: 50 Years. [Peterborough?]: Soroptimist Foundation.
Associations, Committees:
American Library Association
Canadian Library Association
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario
Guelph Black Heritage Society
Honours/Accomplishments:
1996 Hall of Fame Award, Soroptimist International
2001 Ontario Volunteer Service Award to mark thirty-five years volunteering with the Guelph Spring Festival
2011 Flora was a founding member of the GBHS Board of Directors and their Director of Archives
2022 The Flora Blzzard Francis Memorial Library was formally opened on September 25th by the Guelph Black Heritage Society.
Comments:
The collection of the Flora Blizzard Francis Memorial Library circulates and consists of Black literature, with special emphasis on literature from the Caribbean and by Caribbean authors. A substantial number of books from her own extensive library formed the basis for the library, and donated funds are used to enhance and develop the collection. Flora was the unofficial photographer at the ACMLA conferences for many years.
Sources:
Who’s Who in Black Canada 2: Black Success and Black Excellence in Canada (2006), pp. 144–145.
Suzette Giles, “Libraries Named after Librarians: Flora Blizzard Francis Memorial Library,” ELAN, no. 71, Spring 2022: 8.
ELA biography compiled by Bernard Katz
Hilda Gifford BA portrait. Credit Old McGill yearbook 1937
b. Sept. 23, 1915, Montreal, QC; d. Nov. 11, 2002, Ottawa, ON
Education:
1937 BA McGill University
1938 BLS McGill University
Positions:
1938-1943 Cataloguer, Dalhousie University Library
1943-1945 Post Office Censor, Canada Post
1945-1947 International Labour Office
1947-1948 Cataloguer, Harvard Law Library as well as working at Dartmouth College
1948-1969 Head Librarian, Carleton College (later Carleton University)
1969-1981 Collections Librarian, Carleton University
Publications:
Gifford, Hilda (1959). “Function and the Library Building.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 36, no. 4 (April): 104–105.
Gifford, Hilda G (1960). “The Carleton University library building.” ALA Bulletin, 54 (6): 478–480.
Giford, Hilda G. (1963). “The MacOdrum Library of Carleton University.” College and University Libraries (Jan.): 43–46.
Gifford, Hilda G. (1967). Study of cataloguing in fourteen universities in Ontario. Ottawa: Carleton University.
Associations/Committees:
Association internationale des ètudes françaises, Canadian Political Science Association, Humanities Association of Canada, Canadian Library Association, American Library Association, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Ontario Library Association, International Federation of Library Associations
Carleton University Committees: Library Committee, Committee on Curriculum (1949-1950), Faculty Club, Building Advisory Committee
Honours:
1982 D.Litt Carleton University
2004 A plaque and memorial photograph were unveiled in her honour in the MacOdrum Library, Carleton University
Accomplishments:
First university librarian of Carleton University. When she started, the library consisted of 5000 volumes and by 1968 the collection had grown to 300,000 volumes housed in the newly constructed MacOdrum Library building and with a staff of 120 full-time employees.
Other areas of activity:
She was a renowned Scottish country dancer.
Sources:
“Carleton librarian runs big business.” The Ottawa Citizen, May 27, 1968.
“Class acts: online exclusive: Hilda Gifford 1915-2002.” Carleton University Magazine Online, Winter 2003.
Death notice. The Ottawa Citizen, November 19, 2002.
Hilda Gifford, Archives and Research Collections, Carleton University. Accessed August 8, 2013.
“Giving to Carleton: Tribute to library founder and donors.” Carleton University Magazine Online, Fall 2004.
ELA biography compiled by Carrol Lunau.
Margaret Gill c.1945. Credit Library Journal 1945
b. Dec. 10, 1897, Colorado Springs, Colorado; d. June 28, 1974, Sannichton, BC
Education:
1919 BA (University of British Columbia)
1921 BS in Library Science (University of Washington Library School, Seattle)
Positions:
1921-1924 Librarian, Vancouver Public Library
1925 Librarian, Seattle Public Library University District branch
1927 Children's Librarian Kitsilano branch, Vancouver Public Library
1928-1957 Head, National Research Council Library, Ottawa
Publications:
Gill, Margaret S. (1944). “Canadian university and reference libraries in wartime.” College and Research Libraries 5, no. 2: 99-104.
Gill, Margaret S. (1944). “The Dominion to the North: the Canadian scene.” Wilson Library Bulletin 19, November: 169-170.
Gill, Margaret S. (1945). “Canadian Library Advisory Board [of ALA].” American Library Association Bulletin 39, no. 10: 358.
Gill, Margaret S. (1945). “Trade, Profession, or Occupation?” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 1, no. 3: 19.
Gill, Margaret S. (1947). “Very random thoughts inspired by UNESCO.” In: Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association, held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 24-26, 1947. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. p. 6-9.
Gill, Margaret S. (1950). “CLA-CCRU Book Project Committee [March of Books].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 7, no. 2: 51-52.
Gill, Margaret S. (introduction) and Marjory Meleghy, comp. (1957). Union List of Scientific Serials in Canadian libraries. Ottawa: National Research Council.
Gill, Margaret S. (1968). “C.L.C. to C.L.A..” In: Librarianship in Canada, 1946-1967: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Homer Morton. Victoria: Canadian Library Association, 1968. p. 11-19.
Associations/Committees:
Library Association of Ottawa, President 1940-1941
Canadian Library Council, Chair 1944-1946
Canadian Library Association (honorary), Past President 1946-1947
Ontario Library Association, President 1946-1947
University Women's Club of Ottawa, President 1954-55
Honours:
To formally recognize her work, Margaret Gill’s photograph was unveiled in her honour at a ceremony in the lobby of the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (now know as National Science Library, building M-55) where it joined those of her two successors, Dr. Jack Brown (1957-78) and Mr. Elmer Smith (1978-91). – NRC Sphere, July/Aug 1992, 5.
Accomplishments:
Margaret (Madge) Gill chaired the opening of the first conference of by the Canadian Library Association held at McMaster University, Hamilton, in June 1946 with the following words:
“I hope that you all feel as I do, that this is really a very thrilling occasion. The older librarians will know that this is the culmination of a great many years of effort to give Canada a national library association. There have been various attempts in the past, and they have not succeeded in getting beyond the very first stage of good intentions. Today and tomorrow we are going to see something more effective.”
The formation of CLA with the theme ‘Libraries in the Life of the Canadian Nation’ was due in good measure to her resourceful wartime preparatory contributions as chair of the Canadian Library Council. After her national work, she was elected President of the Ontario Library Association for 1946-47. During this time Gill attended the first plenary session of UNESCO as an official Canadian delegate in Paris. In this capacity, she later became the chair of a cooperative effort by CLA and Canadian Council for Reconstruction responsible for the ‘March of Books,’ a national campaign that collected and distributed thousands of books to postwar libraries in Europe, Asia, Ethiopia and Trinidad in 1949-50.
During her thirty year tenure at the NRC library, the collection grew by 350 times its original size, reaching 20 kilometres of shelf space. After Gill retired in 1957, the NRC library began to assume to role of a national science library for all libraries in Canada with a collection of 350,000 books. The same year marked publication of project she had laboured on for some time, a union list of holdings for scientific serials in major Canadian libraries which was subsequently updated and published in a number of editions prior to becoming a computer-based resource.
Comments:
“The Canadian library profession is indeed fortunate to possess a Margaret S. Gill in this critical pre-reconstruction period.” – Isobel Mair, 1945.
Sources:
Mair, Isobel C. (1945). “A Canadian Library Service Designer; Margaret S. Gill,” Library Journal 70, January: 51 and 62-63.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil (2004). “1934-46: the Long Last Lap [CLA Established],” Feliciter 50, 3: 112-15.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Marion Gilroy, 1932. Credit Acadia University yearbook, The Axe
b. 20 Aug. 1912, Spring Hill, NS; d. 21 June 1981, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1932 BA (Acadia University)
1933 MA (University of Toronto)
1939 BLS (Columbia University), Carnegie Fellow
1959 MLS (University of Chicago)
Positions:
1933–1940 Research Librarian, Public Archives of Nova Scotia
1940–1946 Acting Director, Nova Scotia Regional Library Commission and Director, Atlantic Command Library
1946–1963 Supervisor, Regional Libraries of Saskatchewan
1963–1978 Associate Professor, University of British Columbia School of Librarianship
Publications
Gilroy, Marion (1933). The Loyalist experiment in New Brunswick. MA thesis, University of Toronto.
Gilroy, Marion (1933). “The partition of Nova Scotia,1784.” Canadian Historical Review. 14 (4): 375.
Gilroy, Marion (1936). “Customs fees in Nova Scotia.” Canadian Historical Review. 7(1): 9–22.
Gilroy, Marion (1936). “Our Need of Library Service.” Dalhousie Review 16 (3): 351–61.
Gilroy, Marion (1937). “Regional Libraries for Nova Scotia?” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 2 (3): 3–4.
Gilroy, Marion (1937). “Libraries for Nova Scotia.” Nova Scotia Journal of Education 8: 213–217.
Gilroy, Marion (1937). Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia. A list compiled by Marion Gilroy under the direction of D.C. Harvey. Halifax: Published by the authority of the Board of Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
Gilroy, Marion, comp. (1938a) A catalogue of maps, plans and charts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Compiled under the direction of D.C. Harvey, Archivist. Halifax, N.S.
Gilroy, Marion (1938b). “The imperial customs establishment in Nova Scotia, 1825–1855.“ Canadian Historical Review. 19 (3): 277–291.
Gilroy, Marion (1946). “The Buffalo Conference [A.L.A. June 16–22, 1945].” Maritime Library Institute Bulletin 10, no. 4: 3–4.
Gilroy, Marion (1951). “Saskatchewan's first regional library.” Ontario Library Review 35 (1): 87–88.
Gilroy, Marion (1952). “Taking the books to the people.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9 (2, pt. 1): 39–43.
Gilroy, Marion (1952). “A New Prairie Crop; New Library Activity in Northern Saskatchewan.” Food for Thought 12 (7): 5–10.
Gilroy, Marion (1956). “Nora Bateson.” Food for Thought 16 (6): 242–244.
Gilroy, Marion (1960). “Down and Up North.” Food for Thought 20 (6): 276–281, 290.
Gilroy, Marion (1960). “With Parka and Sleeping Bag.” American Library Association 54 (4): 294–299.
Gilroy, Marion (1960). Library co-operation in Britain, 1950–1958. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Gilroy, Marion (1963). Libraries in the Western Part of the Island of Montreal: Present and Proposed; a Report for the West Island Regional Library Council. Montreal: s..n.
Gilroy, Marion (1964). “Cat’s Cradles to Tractors; Books and Libraries for the Northwest Territories.” Canadian Geographical Journal 69 (6): 198–201.
Gilroy, Marion (1966). “Sights and Insights: Jokkmok to Yerevan. British Columbia Library Quarterly 29 (April): 8–13.
Gilroy, Marion and Samuel Rothstein, eds. (1970). As we remember it: interviews with pioneering librarians of British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia School of Librarianship with the cooperation and assistance of the Library Development Commission of British Columbia.
Gilroy, Marion (1968). “Regional Libraries in Retrospect, 1927-1967.” In Librarianship in Canada, 1946–1967; Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Homer Morton ed. by Bruce Baden Peel, 58–72. Victoria: Canadian Library Association.
Gilroy, Marion (1979). Pioneers! O pioneers: the genesis of regional libraries. [Regina]: Saskatchewan Library Association.
Associations/Committees:
Maritime Library Association; President, 1941–45
Saskatchewan Library Association, President, 1948–49
Canadian Library Association; President, 1951–52
Other Activities:
Marion Gilroy “performed surveys of library needs across Canada, in regions as diverse Montreal Island and the Northwest Territories. She also hosted many radio and television broadcasts and had a stint as a movie star in the National Film Board production Books for Beaver River.” During her teaching at UBC [University of British Columbia] she taught courses in public libraries, school libraries, readers services and book selection. In later years she traveled to exotic places including Russia and the Canadian North.
— Celebrating Women’s Achievements
One of the individuals to whom the Saskatchewan of today owes a great debt of gratitude is often referred to as “the small woman in the big hat driving the big black van.” Her name was Marion Gilroy, and her accomplishments are nothing short of heroic.
— Verne Clemence, Saskatchewan's Own, 2004
Sources:
Chan, May (2004). . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Archives (last revised October 2011). Accessed March 27, 2014.
Library and Archives Canada. Celebrating Women’s achievements. Marion Gilroy. Accessed December 5, 2023.
Clemence, Verne. “Books for the Regions: Marion Gilroy, 1912–1981” in Sasktchewan's Own: People Who Made a Difference. Calgary: Fifth House, 2004.
Kerr, Donald. A Book in Every Hand: Public Libraries in Saskatchewan. Regina: Coteau Books, 2005 (pp. 62-81).
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Charles Henry Gould, n.d. Credit McGill University
b. Dec. 6, 1855, Groveton, New Hampshire; d. July 30, 1919, Montreal
Education:
1877 BA (McGill University)
Positions:
1880-1887 Organist, American Presbyterian Church, Montreal
1892-1904 University Librarian, McGill University
1904-19 McGill University Library School (summer course sessions)
Publications:
Gould, Charles H. (1898). Description of important libraries in Montreal, with marks upon departmental libraries. Transactions and proceedings of the Second International Library Conference held in London July 13–16, 1897. London: Morrison & Gibbs: 151-15.
Gould, Charles H. (1902). “Traveling libraries.” McGill University.” Public Libraries: a Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 7: 265.
Gould, Charles H. (1904). “Library matters in Montreal.” Public Libraries: a Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 9: 230-232.
Gould, Charles H. (1906). “McGill University Library School.” Canadian Municipal Journal 2: 251-252.
Gould, Charles H. (1908). “The Cutter Expansive Classification.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 17-20.
Gould, Charles H. (1908). “Regional libraries.” Library Journal 33: 218-219.
Gould, Charles H. (1909). “Co-ordination, or method in co-operation: address of the President, American Library Association, Bretton Woods Conference, 1909.” Library Journal 34, 8: 335-340.
Associations/Committees:
1908-1909 President, American Library Association
1912-1913 President, Bibliographical Society of America
Accomplishments and Honours:
Charles Gould made a landmark contribution to Canadian librarianship by introducing courses for library education at McGill in 1904. During his tenure as University Librarian, collections were catalogued, staff augmented, space increased, and McGill became this country’s largest academic resource by the end of WW I. While he was President of ALA, its headquarters moved to Chicago and a chief executive position was created. He was highly regarded not only in Canada but also in the United States and the United Kingdom for his knowledge and dedication to the profession.
Comments:
“Gould was a rather quiet man of slow speech, a very loyal Canadian, wedded to the British Empire and its traditions, but nonetheless a loyal friend and colleague.” – William Warner Bishop, University Librarian, University of Michigan (1915-41), in Library Quarterly, 1949.
Sources:
Makela, Ritva (1974). McGill University Library during the tenure of Charles H. Gould as University Librarian, 1893-1919. Montreal: GSLS, McGill University.
Hanson, Elizabeth (2006). “Charles Gould, the 1900 ALA Conference and the Canadian Library Association.” Feliciter 52, 3: 114-117.
Hanson, Elizabeth (2007). “The 1900 ALA Conference: Charles Gould’s vision.” Feliciter 53, 3, 160-163.
McNally, Peter F. “Gould, Charles Henry.” In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14. Accessed Nov. 5, 2015.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
J. Katharine Greenfield BA portrait. Credit Torontonensis 1942
b. Mar. 28, 1921, Hamilton, ON; d. Apr. 26, 2015, Hamilton, ON
Education:
1943-1944 Ottawa Public Library
1944-1983 various positions at Hamilton Public Library, including circulation librarian at the Kenilworth Branch and children's librarian at the Central Library
1968 Canadiana Librarian, Hamilton Public Library
1971 Head of Reference, Hamilton Public Library
1974 first Head of the new Special Collections Department (now known as Local History and Archives). She remained in this position until her retirement in 1983.
Archivist (volunteer), Christ’s Church Cathedral (Anglican), Hamilton, ON
Publications:
Greenfield, Katharine and Freda Waldon (1949). “The brains of the library: Hamilton Public Library broadcast over station CHML January 20, 1948.” CLA Bulletin v.5, no. 5 (March): 168-171.>
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1963). “The Rev. John Gamble Geddes and early days at Christ Church, Hamilton.” Wentworth Bygones 4: 9-21.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1966). “The parish register of Christ Church, Delaware, 1834-1851.” Western Ontario Historical Notes 22: 36-89.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1967). “Reference sources for the history of the Church of England in Upper Canada, 1791-1867.” Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society 9: 50-74.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1967). “The registers of Christ's Church, Hamilton.” Wentworth Bygones 7: 22-32.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1968). Some authors of Victorian Hamilton. Paper delivered before the Hamilton Association, October 19, 1968.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1971). “Some Victorian authors - and Hamilton.” Wentworth Bygones 9: 25-33.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1975). “The Reverend Thomas Geoghegan, 1846-1906.” Wentworth Bygones 11: 9-19.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1984). “The Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society, the first forty years.” Wentworth Bygones 14: 76-82.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1985). Victorian weddings. A talk given on Heritage Day, Feb. 18, 1985, at the Hamilton Public Library.
Greenfield, J. Katharine (1988). “The Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art.” Wentworth Bygones 15: 21-30.
Greenfield, Katharine (1989). Hamilton Public Library: a celebration of vision and leadership. Hamilton Public Library.
Greenfield, Katharine (2001). An archivist talks: tales of early Hamilton and our Cathedral.
In addition to these publications, Katharine Greenfield prepared several signed biographies of Hamilton notables for the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (University of Toronto Press) and the Dictionary of Hamilton Biography. She prepared many guides and calendars of archival papers for the local history and archival collection, Hamilton Public Library.
Associations/Committees:
Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society (President, 1978-1979)
Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art
Hamilton Historical Society
Honours:
1997 Honorary Lay Canon, Christ’s Church Cathedral, Anglican Diocese of Niagara
2014 Reverend T. Melville Bailey Heritage Award
Comments:
Librarian and archivist Katharine Greenfield she ensured the acquisition of much material on the history of Hamilton that would otherwise have been lost. A noted local historian, she was a popular speaker, as well as author, on the history of Hamilton and of her church, Christ’s Church Cathedral (Anglican). Her ancestors arrived in Hamilton in 1983. Her work to ensure the collection and preservation Hamilton’s history is a lasting legacy.
Sources:
Darlington, Fran. “The rich, warm wisdom of Katharine Greenfield.” Niagara Anglican (November 2004): 8. Accessed April 19, 2017.
Houghton, Margaret. [Notes on Katharine Greenfield prepared for the Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society]. Hamilton Public Library.
McNeil, Mark.“Passages: the keeper of Hamilton’s past". Hamilton Spectator June 1, 2015. Accessed April 19, 2017. Accessed April 19, 2017.
Obituary – “Greenfield, Josephine Katharine”. Hamilton Spectator April, 29, 2015. Accessed April 19, 2017.
Peter Grossman, c.1953. Credit Canadian Library Association Bulletin2
b. 3 June 1910, Sardis (Chilliwack), BC; d. 17 Dec. 1973, North Vancouver, BC
Education:
1930 BA University of British Columbia
1938 Library Certificate University of California, School of Librarianship
1971 LL.D. Dalhousie University (honorary)
Positions:
1931–1936 Assistant and driver for Fraser Valley Regional Library demonstration
1937 Assistant Librarian, Fraser Valley Union Library
1938–1940 Librarian, Vancouver Island Union Library
1940–1945 Major, Westminster Regiment, Canadian Army WW II
1946–1948 Regional Librarian, Fraser Valley Union Library
1948–1952 Director, Regional Libraries, Nova Scotia Regional Libraries Commission
1952–1954 Director, Nova Scotia Provincial Library
1954–1957 Assistant Librarian, Vancouver Public Library
1957–1969 Director, Vancouver Public Library
Publications:
Grossman, Peter (1947). “Union library development.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 3, no. 5: 107–108.
Grossman, Peter (1950). “The wrong bait.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 4: 145–46.
Grossman, Peter (1950). “The Cape Breton Regional Library: a highlight in library promotion in Nova Scotia.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 5: 186–188.
Grossman, Peter (1951). “How about a library card, girl?” Food for Thought 11, no. 6: 6–10.
Grossman, Peter (1952). “A new library act [Nova Scotia].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9, no. 2: 34.
Grossman, Peter (1953). Library service in New Brunswick: a report and recommendations. Fredericton: New Brunswick Dept. of Education.
Grossman, Peter (1954). “The shortage of librarians: a message from the President.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 10, no 5: 164.
Grossman, Peter (1957). “Recruitment and the library administrator.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 13, no. 5: 221.
Grossman, Peter (1959). “Good planning and its results.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Society of Canada 36, no. 4: 114–115.
Grossman, Peter (1965). “Ruby E. Wallace.” Canadian Library 21, no. 5: 352.
Grossman, Peter (1968). “Canadian Library Week—R.I.P.” Canadian Library 25, no. 1: 27.
Associations:
President, Maritime Library Association, 1951–1952
President, Canadian Library Association, 1953–1954
President, British Columbia Library Association, 1958–1959
Comments:
“The experimental spirit which is the keynote of Nova Scotia library development is not confined to the 'planning staff.' Every librarian, from the chief to the local part-time branch assistant, and every bookmobile driver is busy working out ideas for improving the service. There is no sales problem at this stage; it is a case of how best to meet the demand.” — Peter Grossman, 1951
“His ability for making friends with the public is one of Mr. Grossman's greatest gifts, and this, together with a knowledge and love of books and the experience in organization which he gained from his army service, should guarantee him success in his new position. The good wishes of the British Columbia Library Association follow him and his family to their new.” — British Columbia Library Quarterly, 1948
Sources:
“Mr. Peter F. Grossman,” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin, Dec. 1948: 1–2.
Violet Coughlin, Larger Units of Public Library Service in Canada. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1968, pp. 175–190 and 230–235.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. June 1, 1905, Toronto, ON; d. July 27, 1994, Toronto, ON
Education:
1928 BA (University of Toronto)
1930 MA (University of Toronto)
1944 (Columbia University School of Library Service summer courses)
Positions:
1931-1935 Lecturer in English, McMaster University
1936-1937 Instructor in English, University of Chicago
1937-1942 Professor in English, Mount Allison University
1942-1947 Head of English Department, Mount Allison University
1944-1947 Director of Library Services, Mount Allison University
1947-1966 Chief Librarian, Queen’s University
1956-1960 Editor, Douglas Library Notes
1957-1975 Editor, Historic Kingston
1967-1972 Editor, Queen's Quarterly
1966-1970 Professor of Bibliography, Queen’s University
1970-1971 Associate Director and Senior Editor (co-founder), McGill-Queen's University Press
Publications (major contributions):
Gundy, H. Pearson (1948). “New tools for the research worker: recent advances in microphotography.” Queen’s Quarterly 55 (3): 282–289.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1949). “Libraries in Kingston 1811-1949.” Ontario Library Review 33 (1): 7–11.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1957). Early printers and printing in the Canadas. Toronto: Bibliographical Society of Canada. [2nd ed. in 1964].
Gundy, H. Pearson (1959). “Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection in the Douglas Library.” Newsletter of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 38 (2): 5–6.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1961). “A national Library for Canada: A record and a promise.” Canadian Library 17 (1): 170–178.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1965). Book publishing and publishers in Canada before 1900. Toronto: Bibliographical Society of Canada.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1967). Queen’s University at Kingston. Kingston, Ont.: [Queen’s University].
Gundy, H. Pearson (1972). “The development of trade book publishing in Canada.“ In Royal Commission on Book Publishing: background papers of the Ontario Royal Commission on Book Publishing, 1–37. Toronto: Queen’s Printer.
Gundy, H. Pearson (1972). The spread of printing; Western Hemisphere, Canada. New York: Abner Schram.
Carman, Bliss (1981). Letters of Bliss Carman, edited by H.P. Gundy. Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queen's University Press.
Associations/Committees:
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Canadian Association of University Professors
Canadian Historical Association
Canadian Library Association
Humanities Association of Canada
Kingston Historical Society
Ontario Historical Society
Ontario Library Association
Accomplishments:
H. Pearson Gundy was a scholar-librarian with deep interests in Canadian literature, printing, publishing, and librarianship. Over his term of office as chief librarian at Queen’s he built important collections with a national focus including the outstanding Edith and Lorne Pierce Collection of Canadiana, the books and papers of the poet Bliss Carman, and the private library and papers of the novelist and Canadian Governor General John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir). As collections and staff grew, he sought to expand the old Douglas Library and shortly before he stepped down a new wing was completed in 1965. In retirement he continued his scholarly contributions culminating in his publication of Bliss Carman’s letters in 1981.
Sources:
Morley, William F.E. (1993). “Professor H. Pearson Gundy, Queen’s University librarian: a memoir.” Ex Libris Association Newsletter, no. 13: 17–21.
Henry Pearson Gundy fonds, Queen’s University. Accessed August 28, 2018.
Stedmond, John. (1994). “Henry Pearson Gundy: 1905-1994.” Queen’s Quarterly 101 (3): 764–65.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. July 26, 1925, Estevan, SK; d. May 5, 2000, Victoria BC
Education:
1943 BA (University of Saskatchewan)
1948 MA (University of Saskatchewan)
1949 BLS (University of Toronto)
War service:
RCAF, Pilot Officer (Navigation)
Positions:
1949–1952 Bookmobile Librarian, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio
1952–1955 Coordinator of Reference services, Cuyahoga County Public library, Cleveland, Ohio
1955–1957 Canadiana Librarian, University of Saskatchewan
1957–1960 Assistant Librarian, University of Saskatchewan
1960–1988 Victoria College and University of Victoria Librarian, University of Victoria, BC
Associations/Committees:
1965–1966 President, BC Library Association
1967–1968 President, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
1971–1972 President, Canadian Library Association
1980–1983 Director, American Library Association
1985–1988 Director, American Library Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
1977 Received the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal
1988 Honorary Graduate Award by the UVIC graduating Class of 1988
Other areas of activity:
Dean was active in community affairs, notably the United Way of Greater Victoria. He was a Director for the period 1978-1987 and served as President from 1985 to 1986. An active golfer, Dean belonged to the Uplands Golf Club, serving as a Director from 1978-1981. An avid traveler, one of Dean's last major trips was to China.
Comments:
On Dean's arrival as Librarian of Victoria College on July 1, 1960, the library had a staff of thirteen and contained 60,000 volumes. Dean's academic acument and foresight saw the collection and staff reach levels of “approximately 130 and a collection approaching 1.5 million volumes.” Dean formulated and oversaw “the library building which opened in 1964, and then tripled in size in1973.” Prior to his retirement, Dean laid the foundations of library automation for his successor, Marnie Swanson.
Sources:
Canadian Who's Who. Halliwell. Dean Wright. 2001. Vol . XXXVI, p.550.
The Ring. Dean “Halliwell named 1988 honory graduate”, May 26, 1988.
The Ring. In Memoriam, July 14, 2000.
Times-Colonist. “Halliwell looks back on long career,” June 30, 1988.
b. Ottawa, May 27, 1919; d. Toronto, Dec. 25, 2017
Education:
1940 BA (University of Toronto)
1941 MA (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1941-1942 University of Toronto Press
1942-1945 Royal Canadian Air Force
1945-1978 University of Toronto Press
1969-1988 General Editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1972-1978 Professor and Dean, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto
1979-1984 Associate Director (academic) University of Toronto Press
1979-2017 Professor Emeritus
Publications:
Halpenny, Francess G. (1940). Study of the writers who began the realistic trend in modern American fiction. MA thesis. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1965). “Literary history of Canada: an essay in co-operation.” Papers of the Bibliographic Society of Canada 4, no. 1: 6-13.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1967). “University presses.” Canadian Forum 47, no. 559: 110.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1970). “Of time and the editor.” Scholarly Publishing 1, no. 2: 159-169.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1971). “The editor and his campus.” Scholarly Publishing 2, no. 4: 369.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1972). Editing twentieth century texts: papers given at the Editorial Conference, University of Toronto, November 1969. Published for the Editorial Conference Committee, University of Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1972). “The thesis and the book.” Scholarly Publishing 3, no.2: 111-116.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1973). “Education and training for scholarly publishing.” Scholarly Publishing 4, no. 2: 165-174.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1973). The Robarts library [videorecording]. a more striking conviction. Toronto: Ontario Educational Communications Authority.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1979). Education for bibliography. Ottawa: Committee on Bibliographical Services for Canada, National Library of Canada.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1979). Practice of bibliography. Ottawa: Committee on Bibliographical Services for Canada, National Library of Canada.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1979). Visibility for bibliography. Ottawa: Committee on Bibliographic Services for Canada, National Library of Canada.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1985). Canadian collections in public libraries: a report. Toronto: Book and Periodical Development Council.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1986). “Twenty years of Canadian biography.” Proceedings & Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada.” 1: 193-201.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1990). “Horatio Lovat Dickson.” Proceedings & Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1: 489.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1990). “J. Russell Harper”. Proceedings & Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1: 511.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1990). “Teaching publishing in a master`s program in library science.” Book Research Quarterly 6, no. 1: 74-82.
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Halpenny, Francess G. (1993). “Responsibilities of scholarly publishers: the responsibility in assessing the merit of scholarly manuscripts is not to individuals but to their work as scholarly endeavour; the context of scholarship is creating new pressures on this process.” Scholarly Publishing 24, no. 4: 223-231.
Halpenny, Francess G. (1998). Francess Georgina fonds.
Halpenny, Francess G. (2001). “Living a project.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 32, no. 4: 204-220.
Halpenny, Francess G., ed. (2002). “100 books for 100 years.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 40, no. 2: 57-93.
Halpenny, Francess G. (2003). The thesis and the book [electronic device] a guide for first time academic authors, edited by Elinor Harmon… [et al]. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Halpenny, Francess G. (2017). A world of words: Francess Halpenny’s autobiography. 1st ed March 2017. Toronto: Frances G. Halpenny.
Associations/Committees:
1968-1970 Member, Canadian Historical Association Council
1973-1975 Chair, Committee on Editing and Publications Policy, Canadian Library Association
1976-1979 Member, National Library Advisory Board
1977 Chair, Bibliography Services for Canada
Honours:
1979 Officer of the Order of Canada
1984 Companion of the Order of Canada
1977 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1983 Molson Award awarded by the Canada Council for distinguished contribution to Canada’s cultural and intellectual heritage
Honorary degrees from 11 Canadian universities including University of Toronto
Comments:
The Globe and Mail described Francess as an “undisputed star of the editing world.” She had a very clear idea of what an editor should be – a supporter for the author. One U of T professor is reported to have said “Francess can have anything she wants. She got our books published.” Her magnum opus was the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB).” Officially she served as General Editor of the DCB/DBC from 1969 to 1988 working with her counterparts at Université Laval overseeing the completion of ten volumes of the Dictionary, comprising more than 5000 Biographies –a truly remarkable achievement. She adhered to and furthered the principles on which the Dictionary was based – a bilingual partnership with the Université Laval (with the result that the DCB/DBC became and remains the most important bilingual project in the Canadian humanities). The organization of biographies by period of death date rather than alphabetically, and the insistence that biographies be based on primary sources is a practice that distinguishes the DCB/DBC from all other national biographies.“
Francess`s mother was always her supporter. In conjunction with a group of editors she said ``that little girl knows more than all you boys put together`` and following the presentation of the Molson Award she said “Francess always did her homework.” Both of these things were probably true.
Sources:
Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Francess G. Halpenny (1919-2017).
Canadian Who's Who, v. 15, 1980.
Obituary. Globe and Mail, January 6, 2018.
“Francess Halpenny 98 was the undisputed star of the editing world.” Globe and Mail, Jan. 14, 2018.
Francess Georgina Halpenny fonds at the University of Toronto
Robert Morris Hamilton BA portrait. Credit Old McGill yearbook 1934
b. 25 March 1912, Lachine, QC; d. 8 June 2010, Richmond, BC
Education:
1934 BA McGill University
1935 BLS McGill University
1936–1937 Columbia University Carnegie Fellowship
Positions
1935–1936 Assistant McGill University Law Library
1937–1943 Assistant, Library of Parliament, Ottawa
1944–1946 Reference Librarian, New York Public Library
1946–1961 Assistant Librarian (English), Library of Parliament
1961–1964 Associate Professor School of Librarianship, University of British Columbia
1964–1971 Assistant University Librarian for Collections, UBC
Publications (selected)
Hamilton, Robert (1938). “Quebec government publications to 1841.” Ontario Library Review 22 (2): 82–84.
Hamilton, Robert (1944). “A National War Memorial Library.” Ontario Library Review 28 (1): 3–4.
Hamilton, Robert (1948). “The Newspaper Microfilming Project.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 4 (4): 89–93.
Hamilton, Robert (1951). “The Microfilming of Newspapers.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 8 (3): 91–94.
Hamilton, Robert (1952). “The Library of Parliament fire.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9 (3): 73–77.
Hamilton, Robert (1952 and 1965). Canadian Quotations and Phrases: Literary and Historical. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart.
Hamilton, Robert (1955). “Reference Section [CLA section chair].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 11 (6): 318–319.
Hamilton, Robert and Rita Butterfield (1957, 1959, 1962). Canadian Book Prices Current. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Hamilton, Robert (1959). “The domestic trade in general Canadiana.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 15 (4): 147–148.
Hamilton, Robert (1961). “The year ahead [1961–1962].” Canadian Library 18 (2): 52–53.
Hamilton, Robert (1962). “A for Action.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 17th annual conference, Ottawa, June 22–29, 1962, pp. 18–26 [presidential address].
Hamilton, Robert (1967). Orchid Flower Index: A World List of Reproductions in Color in Books and Periodicals 1736 to 1966, vol. 1. Richmond, B.C: [s.n.] [volume 2 published in 1979].
Hamilton, Robert and Dorothy Shields (1979). The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations and Phrases [rev. and enl. edition, 1982]. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Associations
President, Canadian Library Association, 1961–1962
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario
Bibliographical Society of Canada
British Columbia Library Association
American Orchid Society
Honours
Canadian Centennial Medal, 1967
Named a Life Member of the Vancouver Orchid Society in 1983
Comments
“I guess we never really gave up entirely on the thought that a library school was not partially a vocational school you know and that the personality and adaptiveness and all the rest of it were good things to have.” — Bert Hamilton quoted in Forty Years of Library Education; The School of Library, Archival & Information Studies, University of British Columbia, 1961–2001.
Sources
Canadian Who’s Who, 1961–1963
Vancouver Sun, June 19, 2010, p. J4 [obituary]
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. June 11, 1908, Columbus, Indiana; d. July 13, 2000, Los Angeles, California
Education:
1928-1929 (California State University, Fresno)
1929-1930 (Santa Ana Junior College); BEd.(Art)
1932 (University of California, Los Angeles); Certificate in Librarianship
1933 (University of California, Berkeley)
Positions:
1934-1938 Junior Librarian, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
1938-1945 Assistant Librarian, California Section, California State Library
1945-1947 Head, Gifts and Exchanges Division, University of California, Los Angeles Library
1947-1949 Head, Special Collections Division, University of California, Los Angeles Library
1949-1950 Assistant Librarian, University of California, Los Angeles Library
1951-1961 University Librarian, University of British Columbia
1961-1969 Dean, Graduate School of Library Science, Rutgers University
Publications:
“Facsimile Card Catalog,” Library Journal 64 (April 1, 1939): 250-251.
“Photography in Library Service,” California Library Association Bulletin 2 (March 1941): 155-159.
The Bancroft Library: an Administrative Study . Berkeley, Calif., 1944.
“Conservation of Newspaper Resources.” California Library Association Bulletin 9 (March 1948): 89-91; and 10 (Sept, 1948): 19-21.
The Administration of Manuscripts in a University Library . Los Angeles: [Neal Harlow], 1949.
The Maps of San Francisco Bay, from the Spanish Discovery in 1769 to the American Occupation. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1950.
“Bookman, Information Expert, Documentalist - How Library Schools Meet the Challenge,” Special Libraries 54 (October 1963): 503-507.
“The Present Is Not What It Was,” Library Journal 89 (June 15, 1964): 2531.
“A Study of the Need for Additional Facilities for the Education of Librarians in the University of California,” Berkeley: University of California, 1967.
“Planner to Architect,” Journal of Education for Librarianship 9 (Summer 1968): 5-12.
“Changing the Curriculum.” Journal of Education for Librarianship. 10 (Fall 1969): 78-85
“Designs on the Curriculum,” In: Conference on the Design of the Curriculum of Library Schools, 1970.
Education for Librarianship: the Design of the Curriculum for Library Schools. Edited by Herbert Goldhor. Ann Arbor: University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, 1971. Pp.1-18.
“Field Theory and the Curriculum: a Unified Approach,” In: American Library Philosophy, an Anthology. Selected and introduced by Barbara McCrimmon. Hamden, Ct.: Shoe String Press, 1975. Pp. 202-210
Associations/Committees:
American Library Association; Canadian Library Association; California Library Association; Pacific Northwest Library Association; British Columbia Library Association; Book Club of California; Zamorano Club.
Honours:
1989 Fellow, Historical Society of Southern California.
Accomplishments
1960-1961 President, Canadian Library Association
Other areas of activity:
1947-1949 Editor, California Library Bulletin
1954-1957 Board, Pacific Northwest Bibliographical Center
1958-1961 National Research Council, Advisory Board on Scientific and Technical Information
1959-1963 American Library Association Committee on Accreditation
1960-1961 President, Canadian Library Association
Sources:
“Introducing Neal Harlow,” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 8: (September 1951):36
Vosper, Robert. “Personnel,” College and Research Libraries 12 (October 1951): 375-6
Horn, Andrew H. [Biographical Sketch] College & Research Libraries 22 (September 1961): 388-9
Powell, Lawrence Clark. Fortune and Friendship; an Autobiography. N.Y.: Bowker, 1968) Pp 110, 114, 116, 150, 151, 157, 210-11
[Obituary], Los Angeles Times (July 20,2000):Part B,8.
Zachary, Claude Ben. A History of the U.C.L.A. Library Department of Special Collections: 1945-1971. Los Angeles: University of California at Los Angeles, 1988. (Thesis, M.L.I.S.)
b. 8 January 1929, Milliken, Colorado; d. 23 March 2006, Halifax, NS
Education:
Education degree (Northwestern University)
1957 MLS (University of Illinois)
1982 Master of Theological Studies (Atlantic School of Theology)
Positions:
1970-1978 Associate Librarian, Atlantic School of Theology
1978-1995 Head Librarian, Atlantic School of Theology
Publications:
Harrison, Alice W. (1981). The conservation of library materials. Halifax NS: Dalhousie University, University Libraries.
Harrison, Alice W., Edward Collister and Ellen Willis (1982). The conservation of archival and library materials: a resource guide to audio-visual aids. Metuchen NJ: Scarecrow Press.
Harrison, Alice W. (1987). Checklist of United Church publications, 1925-1986: sixty-one years: a union list of catalogued holdings of nine libraries. Halifax, NS: Atlantic School of Theology.
Committees/Accomplishments:
1973 following the survey of the Canadian Conservation Institute, highlighting the conservation needs in the Atlantic provinces, Alice lead the response.
In 1975 and 1977 Alice organized workshops at the Dalhousie Library School on conservation in conjunction with various local bodies such as Visual Arts Nova Scotia, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Museum and the Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
During her tenure as Head Librarian she oversaw the construction and dedication of the new AST library which was officially opened in 1994.
She served for 9 years on the board of Pine Hill Divinity College.
1978 Offered a non-credit course in Conservation at the Dalhousie University Library School.
Honours:
1975 Atlantic Provinces Library Association presented her with the first Alberta Letts Travelling Fellowship which enabled her to visit conservation laboratories in seven foreign countries and in eastern Canada.
1979 the Halifax Library Association presented her its first Distinguished Service Award for her work in directing the salvage operations of historic church documents after the fire at the Brunswick Street United Church.
Sources:
Obituary, the Chronical Herald, March 31, 2006.
Anne Hart c.2006. Credit Memorial University
b. Oct. 7, 1935, Winnipeg, MB; d. Oct. 9, 2019, Victoria, BC
Maiden name Margaret Eleanor Anne Hill
Education:
1956 BA (King's College, Dalhousie University)
1952 BLS (McGill University)
Positions:
Librarian, Dalhousie Library, Kipling Collection
Librarian, British Museum Library
Librarian, Queen’s University Library
1969-1972 Cataloguer (part-time), Newfoundland Public Libraries
1973-1974 Librarian, Memorial University Library of Newfoundland
1974-1977 Assistant Head, Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Library of Newfoundland
1977-1998 Head, Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Library of Newfoundland
1999- Honorary Research Librarian, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Publications:
Hart, Anne (1975). Help me Hepplewhite. Play. Produced for CBC National.
Hart, Anne (1976). “Help me Hepplewhite,” In The Blasty bough, by Clyde Rose: 60-69. Portugal Cove: Breakwater Books.
Hart, Anne, Kitty Power, et al., comp. (1977). Newfoundland and Confederation. Toronto: Clark Irwin.
Anne Hart (1979). “The Friday everything changed.” In Crossroads II: Canadian stories and poems, selected and edited by William Boswetll, Betty Lamont, John Martyn: 12-21. Toronto: Van Nostrand Reinhold.
Hart, Anne, et al., comp. (1980). My inside self: writings and pictures by children of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s: Newfoundland Library Association.
Anne Hart (1985). The life and times of Miss Jane Marple. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985.
This book has been reissued many times, in several languages.
Also published under title: Agatha Christies’ Miss Marple: the life and times of Miss Jane Marple.
Anne Hart (1990). The life and times of Hercule Poirot. London: Pavilion Books, 1990.
This book has been reissued many times, in several languages.
Also published under title: Agatha Christies’ Poirot: the life and times of Hercule Poirot.
Hart, Anne (2001). “Into unknown Labrador.” In Rediscovering Canada: image, place and text, edited by Gudrun Bjork Gudsteins. [Reykjavík,] University of Iceland Press.
Hart, Anne (2001). “Lettuce, turnip and pea.” In Dropped threads: what we aren’t told, edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson: 33-39. Toronto, Random House.
Buchanan, Roberta, Anne Hart, and Bryan Greene (2005). The woman who mapped Labrador: the life and expedition diary of Mina Hubbard. Montreal: McGill Queen’s University Press.
[Biography of the first white woman to cross Labrador. The three collaborators edited Mina Hubbard's diary, and Ms. Hart wrote the biography of Mina Hubbard.]
Shortlisted for the Winterset Award for excellence in Newfoundland and Labrador writing.
Hart, Anne (2007). Address to convocation. [Memorial University] President’s report, 2007.
Radio:
CBC Radio Ideas documentary: “Into Unknown Labrador: The Mina Hubbard Story,” 1998-05-28. This lecture was also delivered by Ms. Hart to The Newfoundland Historical Society on January 27, 2000.
Associations/Committees:
Canadian Library Association
Canadian Library Trustees Association. President, 1982-1983
Newfoundland Public Libraries Board. Chair, 1974-1978; Chair, Anniversary Committee, 1984-1986
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Chair, Publications Committee, 1982-1984
Newfoundland and Labrador Library Association
Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archivists
Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vice-President, 1989
Writers Union of Canada
Crime Writers Association
Crime Writers of Canada
Mystery Writers of America
Bronte Society (Life Member)
Newfoundland Historical Association
Newfoundland Human Rights Association
St. John’s City Council Arts Jury
Winterset Board of Directors, 2009
Honours:
2004 Order of Canada
1974 Margaret Duley Fiction Contest - Newfoundland Writers Guild and Canada Council
1985 Writer’s Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL
1986 Annual Merit Award, outstanding Library Trustee, Canadian Library Trustees Association
2006 Honorary Doctor of Literature, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Accomplishments:
“Anne led two accomplished careers. As a librarian she nurtured the Newfoundlandia collection at Memorial University Libraries, building the Centre for Newfoundland Studies into the largest collection of published materials on all aspects of Newfoundland and Labrador anywhere, and an Archives unit in 1982 that now stands on its own as the University Library's Archives and Special Collections. As a writer Anne published three biographies (two of Agatha Christie’s fictional detectives, Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, and one of Labrador explorer Mina Hubbard) and many poems and short stories. Anne also guided other authors over many decades, edited scores of manuscripts, and was active in the St. John’s literary community, and helped establish the Winterset Prize. For this work she obtained Library Research Professor status at Memorial University, an honourary degree from Memorial in 1997, and the Order of Canada in 2004.”
“With creativity and vision, Anne Hart has made lasting contributions to the cultural life of her province…[The] heritage books and documents [at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies] will provide generations of students, scholars and the public with a record of the history of Newfoundland and Labrador. A highly regarded author and poet, she has been a tireless champion of the literary community, supporting and promoting her fellow writers. Her leadership has also benefited local, provincial and national organizations working in the areas of heritage, literacy and human rights.”
Comments:
“Anne Hart is a foremost expert on Agatha Christie and wrote her acclaimed biographies of Poirot and Marple with the full endorsement of Agatha Christie Limited. They have become regarded as the definitive works on their subjects.”
Sources:
Anne Hart [obituary]. The Telegram. Accessed Aug. 3, 2020.
Anne Hart (Canadian author). Wikipedia.
Margaret Eleanor Anne Hart (Hill) October 7, 1935 –October 9, 2019 [obituary]. McCall Gardens. Accessed Aug. 3, 2020.
AnneHart,Canadian author. Accessed Aug. 3, 2020.
Remembering Librarian Ann Hart [News from Memorial University Library]
“Anne Hart.” In Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2019.
b. Feb. 11, 1946, Vancouver, BC; d. Jan. 31, 2003, Toronto, ON
Education:
1968 BA (University of British Columbia)
1975 MA (University of Victoria)
1975 Public Archives of Canada, Diploma Course in Archives Principles and Administration
Positions:
1975-1980: Honorary Archivist, Anglican Diocese of British Columbia
1972-1979 Archivist, Manuscripts and Government Records Division, Provincial Archives of British Columbia
1979-1982 Chief, Audio and Visual Records Programme, Provincial Archives of British Columbia
1982-1984 Director, Records Management Branch, Government of British Columbia
1984-1989 University Archivist, University of Toronto
1989-1990 Public Records Archivist, Public Archives of Nova Scotia
1990-1993 Acting Head, Public Records Division, Public Archives of Nova Scotia
1993-1994 Adjunct University Archivist, York University Archives and Special Collections
1994-2002 University Archivist & Head, Special Collections, York University Libraries
Publications:
Haworth, Kent M. (1975). Governor Anthony Musgrave, Confederation and the challenge of responsible government. (Thesis (MA) University of Victoria). Victoria.
Haworth, Kent M. and Charles Maier (1975). “Not a matter of regret: Granville's response to Seymour's death.“ B.C. Studies no. 27 (Autumn): 62-66.
Haworth, Kent M. (1976). “Local archives: responsibilities and challenges for archivists.” Archivaria 3 (Winter): 28-39.
Haworth, Kent M. (1981). “Welfare for archives and the will of archivists.” Archivaria 13 (Winter): 124-126.
Haworth, Kent M. (1982). “Anthony Musgrave.” In Dictionary of Canadian Biography vol. XI, pp. 634-637. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Haworth, Kent M. and Jane E. Dryden (1987). Developing descriptive standards: a call to action. Ottawa: Bureau of Canadian Archivists.
Haworth, Kent M. and Wendy Duff (1990). “The reclamation of archival description: the Canadian perspective.” Archivaria 31 (Winter): 26-35. Re-published in Canadian archival studies and the rediscovery of provenance, ed. by Thomas Nesmith, pp. 461-473. Metuchen, N.J.: Society of American Archivists and Association of Canadian Archivists, 1993.
Haworth, Kent M. (1992). “The development of descriptive standards in Canada: a progress report.” Archivaria 34 (Summer): 75-90.
Haworth, Kent M. (1992). “The principles speak for themselves: articulating a language of purpose for Archives.” In Barbara L. Craig, ed. The archival imagination: essays in honour of Hugh Taylor, pp. 90-104. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Archivists.
Haworth, Kent M. (1992). Standardizing archival description in the information age. Paris: International Conference on Archives.
Haworth, Kent M. (1993) “The voyage of RAD: from the Old World to the New.” Archivaria 36 (Autumn): 5-12.
Haworth, Kent M. (1997). “Advancing archival description: a model for rationalising North American descriptive standards.” Archives and Manuscripts vol. 25, no. 2 (November): 194-217.
Haworth, Kent M. (2001). “Archival description.” Journal of Internet Cataloguing v. 4, no. 3-4: 7-26.
Haworth, Kent M. (2001). “Richard J. Cox, managing records as evidence and information.” Archival Science 1, no. 2: 223-2.
Associations/Committees:
Chairman, Publications Committee, Association of Canadian Archivists, 1978-1979
Vice-President, Association of Canadian Archivists, 1979-1980
President, Association of Canadian Archivists, 1980-1981
Member, Bureau of Canadian Archivists, Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1987-1996
Chair, Bureau of Canadian Archivists Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1989-1996
Member, Task Force on the Future of Descriptive Standards, Bureau of Canadian Archivists, 1994-1995
Member, Association of British Columbia Archivists
Member, Ontario Association of Archivists
Chair, Information Technology Special Interest Group, Ontario Association of Archivists, 1997-1998
Member, Board of Directors, Ontario Association of Archivists,1997-2000
Member, Australian Society of Archivists
Honours:
2002 Association of Canadian Archivists Membership Recognition Award
Kent Haworth Archival Research Fellowship. This York University fellowship is designed to honour Kent “who was a tireless, internationally respected champion of archives and a superbly gatherer of Canadian material for the York University Archives.” [Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University]
Accomplishments:
“Kent Haworth was an archivist for more than 30 years. He left standing achievements at the local, provincial and national levels – achievements that helped build the current foundations of Canada’s archives. There is one achievement in particular that all archivists remember when thinking about Kent. This is his leadership role in creating and establishing a national standard, The Rules for Archival Description (RAD).
Kent “published widely on a number of topics of importance to the development of archival theory [and] lectured and presented throughout the world. He was editor of the British Columbia Historical News in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.”
“Kent’s dedication and passion for his profession, his energy to fight any preconceived idea, his dynamism, his leadership, his hard work have made Canada a leader in archival descriptive standards and a model for many counties and the International Council of Archives.”
Sources:
Ware, Reuben (2003). “Obituary, Kent Haworth, 1946-2003.” Archivaria 55 (Spring): 191-195.
Wikipedia. “Kent Haworth”.
Beyea, Marion (2002). “Kent Haworth remembered.” Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Libraries.
York University Archives and Special Collections.
WorldCat.
Ken Haycock author photo
b. February 15, 1948, Hamilton, ON
Education:
1968 BA, University of Western Ontario
1969 DipEd, University of Western Ontario
1973 MEd, University of Ottawa
1974 AMLS, University of Michigan
1991 EdD, Brigham Young University
2004 MBA, Royal Roads University
Positions:
1969–1970 Teacher, Glebe Collegiate Institute, Ottawa
1970–1972 Department Head, Colonel By Secondary School, Ottawa
1972–1976 Consultant K-12, Wellington County Board of Education, Guelph.
1976–1984 Coordinator, Library Services, Vancouver School Board
1984–1992 Director, Program Services, Vancouver Schol Board
1989–1991 Principal, Waverley Elementary School, Vancouver [special assignment]
1992–2005 Professor, Library and Information Studies, University of British Columbia (Professor Emeritus, 2005– )
1992–2002 Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia (now the ISchool)
2005–2010 Professor and Director, School of Library and Information Science (now the ISchool), San Jose State University (Professor Emeritus, 2010– )
2010–2011 Follett Endowed Chair in Library and Information Science, Dominican University, Chicago
2010–2015 Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology
2012–2016 Research Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (Director of Master of Management Program)
2017–2023 Research Professor (Honorary), Center for Library Leadership and Management, University of Southern California Libraries
2017– Executive Director, Better Boards. Better Communities, Vancouver
Selected Publications:
Haycock, Ken (1972). Are you wasting your library resources teacher? School Progress, 41(4): 36–37.
Haycock, Ken (1973). Teacher-Librarian: Educational leader or technician? Ontario Education, 5(6): 10–15.
Haycock, Ken (1982). School librarianship in Canada: An introduction. Canadian Library Journal 39(4): 241–246.
Haycock, Ken (1985). Strengthening the foundations for teacher-librarianship. School Library Media Quarterly, 13(2): 102–109.
Haycock, Ken (1995). Research in teacher-librarianship and the institutionalization of change. School Library Media Quarterly, 23(4): 227–233.
Haycock, Ken (1997). Applying principles for effective staff development to large urban public library systems in Canada: Intersections of research with the knowledge, beliefs and practices of public library directors. In N. O. Pors (ed.), Human development: Competencies for the twenty-first century; Papers from the IFLA CPERT Third World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library an Information Science Professions, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 27–29, 1997 (pp. 316–323). Munchen: K. G. Saur.
Haycock, Ken (1998). Reinventing school libraries: Alternatives, models and options for the future. Education Canada 38(3): 44–52.
Haycock, Ken (1999). The Congress on graduate professional education: Issues, process, recommendations. In B. Wynar (ed.), Library and information science annual (pp. 12–22) volume 7, 1999. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Haycock, Ken (ed.) (1999). Foundations for effective school library media programs. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Haycock, Ken and Cavill, Pat (1999). Connecting marketing and implementation research and library program development: A case study of the implementation of national (U.S.) guidelines and standards. In L. Lighthall and E. Howe (eds.), Unleash the power! Knowledge-technology-diversity; Papers presented at the third annual forum on research in school librarianship (pp. 5–37). Seattle, WA: International Association of School Librarianship.
Haycock, Ken (2003). The crisis in Canada’s school libraries: The case for reform and re-investment. Toronto: Association of Canadian Publishers.
Haycock, Ken (2005). Librarianship: Intersecting perspectives from the academy and from the field. In N. Horrocks (ed.), Perspectives, insights and priorities: 17 leaders speak freely of librarianship (pp. 63–72). Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Haycock, Ken (2006). Dual use libraries: Guidelines for success. Library Trends 54(4): 488–500.
Haycock, Ken (2007). Collaboration: Critical success factors for student learning. School Libraries Worldwide, 13(1): 25–35.
Haycock, Ken (2007). Education for Library and Information Studies in Canada: A cross-cultural comparison. New Library World 108(1/2): 32–39.
Haycock, Ken and Sheldon, B. (eds.). (2008). The Portable MLIS: Insights from the experts. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. [2nd edition, 2017: Haycock, Ken and Romaniuk, M. (eds.).
Haycock, Ken (2008). Building the world’s largest MLIS program (pp. 36–45). Library and Book Trade Almanac: The Bowker Annual. 53rd edition. Medford, NJ: Information Today.
Haycock, Ken (2010). Predicting sustainability for programs in Library and Information Science: Factors influencing continuance and discontinuance. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Education 51(3): 130–141.
Haycock, Ken (2011). Exemplary public library branch managers: Their characteristics and effectiveness. Library Management 32(4/5): 266–278
Haycock, Ken (2011). Connecting British Columbia (Canada) school libraries and student achievement: A comparison of higher and lower performing schools with similar overall funding. School Libraries Worldwide 17(1): 37–50.
Haycock, Ken and Romaniuk, M-J (2011). Designing and evaluating library leadership programs: Improving performance and effectiveness. Australian Library Journal 60(1): 29–40.
Haycock, Ken, Bluestone, K. and Cheadle, A (2012). A. Strategic thinking: Lessons for leadership. Library Leadership and Management 26(3/4): 1–23.
Haycock, Ken and Stenstrom, C. (2014). The role of interpersonal influence in budget decision making: The Canadian public library experience. Administration & Society 47(8): 983–1014.
Haycock, Ken (2014). Reviewing the research and evidence: Towards best practices for advocacy for library support and funding; A report for the American library Association. Chicago: American Library Association.
Haycock, Ken (2025). Advocacy and influence: What we know after fifty years of training and research: An interview with Ken Haycock. In Pun, R., Durney. S. and Anantachai, T. (eds.). Legislative advocacy and public policy for academic research library workers; Perspectives and strategies. (pp. 155–164). Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries.
Selected Association/Community Leadership:
1974–1975 President, Canadian School Library Association
1977–1978 President, Canadian Library Association
1994–1997 Chair, West Vancouver School Board (Trustee, 1993–1999)
1994–2015 Program Lead, Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute
1995–2000 Executive Director (Pro Bono), International Association of School Librarianship
1995–2005 President, Council for Canadian Learning Resources
1995–2007 American Library Association Council (Executive Board, 1993–2003)
1997–1998 President, American Association of School Librarians
1999–2001 Chair, Section on Education and Training, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
1999–2002 Municipal Councillor, District of West Vancouver
2005–2006 President, Association for Library and Information Science Education
2011–2012 Chair, American Library Association Committee on Accreditation
2014–2015 Chancellor, Capilano University (Senate, Board of Governors)
2014–2018 Founder and Executive Director (Pro Bono), Project LLEAD (Library Leadership Excellent and Development)
2018– Founder and Executive Director (Pro Bono), 100 Gay Men for a Cause
Honours:
1976 University of Michigan School of Library and Information Studies Beta Phi Mu Award for Exceptional Professional Promise
1977 Governor-General of Canada Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
1979 Canadian School Library Association Margaret B. Scott Award of Merit
1989 British Columbia Teacher-Librarians’ Association Distinguished Service Award
1989 Canadian School Library Association Distinguished School Administrator Award
1991 Canadian Library Association Outstanding Service to Librarianship in Canada
1992 Canadian Library Association Honorary Life Member
1993 Fellow, Canadian College of Teachers
1996 American Association of School Librarians Baker and Taylor Distinguished Service Award
2001 American Library Association Herbert and Virginia White Award (significant contributions to the public recognition of librarianship)
2005 British Columbia Library Association Helen Gordon Stewart Award
2009 San Jose State University Outstanding Professor, School of Library and Information Science and College of Applied Science and Arts
2010 Association for Library and Information Science Professional Contributions to Education Award
2010 American Library Association Beta Phi Mu Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education
2013 Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) Honoris Causa, Capilano University
2015 Ontario Library Association Larry Moore Award for Outstanding Service
2015 Ontario Library Association Honourary Life Membership
Selected Comments:
…blessed with high intellect, ambition and an educational idealism… the most well-known librarian in Canada…has created a national awareness of libraries and librarians… Ken Haycock is a high-water mark…
…his ideas, approaches and innovations will have a lasting impact …His tenure should also dispel the often-repeated jeremiad that association presidents can accomplish little in one year…
…established major school improvement and curriculum implementation initiatives which emphasized…the leadership role of the teacher-librarian.
… Ken Haycock, is the originator… of the concept of Cooperative Program Planning and Teaching (CPPT). This concept was … to have a major impact on Australian teacher librarians.
…Paramount in that generation [1970s] was Ken Haycock… His ideas and forthright leadership have continued to inspire us ever since…[he shared] a passion for libraries and education, and a personal selflessness…
…The range of Dr. Haycock’s accomplishments is staggering.
…Ken Haycock…Canada’s leading authority on school libraries…
…constructive and detailed…to move boards to a totally new concept of visualizing the role and responsibility of library boards as community development agencies.
…under Ken Haycock, SLAIS has become an internationally recognized School with innovative programs and exceptional research productivity. The programs have received international awards.
…an outstanding career in librarianship involving visible achievements that bring honour to the entire profession.
…From all surveyed sectors there was virtually unanimous agreement that Dr. Haycock's energetic leadership style, his compassion for students, and his entrepreneurial use of resources have resulted in a school that is on the cutting edge in terms of student growth, vigorous outreach, and imaginative curricular developments.
…Dr. Haycock continually challenged me to think broader and deeper; he pushed me to do the best; challenging, high expectations; excellent pedagogy; well-organized; stimulating; extensive knowledge; flexible (selected student comments)
Sources:
Canadian who’s who: A biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. University of Toronto Press. Selected annually since 1980.
Who’s who in America. Marquis. Selected annually since 1978.
Who’s who in American education. Marquis. Selected annually since 1993.
Who’s who in library and information services. American Library Association, 1982.
Who’s who in the world. New Providence, NJ: Marquis. Selected annually since 2004.
b. Feb. 12, 1933, Toronto; d. Oct. 9. 2011, Toronto, ON
Education:
1959 BA (University of Toronto)
1961 MA (University of Toronto)
1962 BLS (University of Toronto)
Positions:
Librarian, University of Toronto
Librarian, York University
Publications:
Heggie, Grace F. (1975). The study of history in Canada. Toronto: York University Libraries.
Heggie, Grace F. assisted by B. Monette (1976). A selection of reference material relating to Canadian history located in the Scott Library. Rev. ed. Toronto: York University Libraries.
Heggie, Grace F. (1977). Canadian political parties, 1867-1968: a historical bibliography. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada.
Heggie, Grace F. and Gordon R. Adshead (1987). An index to Saturday night: the first fifty years, 1887-1937. Toronto: Micromedia.
Heggie, Grace F. et al. (1988). Canadian periodical index, 1920-1937: an author and subject index. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Heggie, Grace F. and Anne McGaughey (1993). Index to Canadian bookman. Toronto: McLaren Editions.
Heggie, Grace F. and Anne McGaughey (1997). The University magazine, 1901-1920: an annotated index. Teeswater, ON: Reference Press.
Heggie, Grace F. and Anne McGaughey (1998). Massey’s magazine, 1898-1897: an annotated index. Teeswater, ON: Reference Press.
Associations/Committees:
Bibliographical Society of Canada
ExLibris Association
Women’s Music Club of Toronto
Duke Ellington Society
Honours:
Grace Heggie Award. “This scholarship honours Grace Heggie, librarian and historian. Grace Heggie was the first history bibliographer at York University. In more than 30 years of service Ms. Heggie built the history collection of York University Libraries, taught students how to use it, and published important reference tools and indices for research in Canadian history. Scholarships are awarded to undergraduate history majors in [York University] Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, selected by the Department of History for academic merit and financial need.”
Comments:
Grace “was one of the early librarians at York University. She was the original bibliographer for history, political science and geography for the York University Libraries, and was instrumental in building the collection in these areas from the inception of York University. She continued as the history bibliographer for Scott Library until her retirement.”
She “served for a number of years on the board of directors for the Women’s Musical Club of Toronto in the position of archivist. She was responsible for preserving many valuable materials for the club, which were deposited at the Toronto Reference Library, where they are available for public access. Grace had a keen appreciation for music, both classical and jazz, and was a contributing member to the Duke Ellington Society in Toronto.”
“Grace had an extensive knowledge of Canadian and local history which she shared in her writings, in the classroom, and in her invaluable contribution to the York library system.”
Sources:
Monty, Vivienne and Anne McGaughey. “Grace Heggie, February 12, 1933 - October 9, 2011: in memoriam.” YURA newsletter, no. 19, Winter 2012.
Grace Heggie Award. Accessed Mar. 7, 2016.
Globe and Mail obituary, Oct. 15, 2011.
b. Aug. 25, 1935; d. Dec 5, 2019, Toronto, ON
Education:
1964 BLS (University of Toronto)
1967 MLS (University of Toronto)
1979 MBA (York University
Positions:
1964-1969 Cataloguing Dept., University of Toronto
1969-1973 Lecturer, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
1973-1996 Chief Librarian, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
Publications:
Henderson, Diane (1974). “Accreditation of library school programmes in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 31 (2): 134-136.
Jarvi, Edith T. and Diane Henderson (1974). Guide to basic reference materials for Canadian libraries. 4th ed. Published for the Faculty of Library Science by the University of Toronto Press. (5th ed., 1977 edited by Diane Henderson; 6th ed., 1980 and 7th ed., 1984 edited by Diane Henderson and Claire England).
Jarvi, Edith T. and Diane Henderson (1983). “Canadian reference books; Or, Benevolent ignorance dispelled.” Reference Services Review 16, 2: 66-67.
England, Claire with Diane Henderson (1983). Interlibrary loan and document delivery in Canada. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.
Henderson, Diane, ed. (1990). Asis '90: Proceedings of the 53rd Asis Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, November 4-8, 1990. Medford, N.J: Published for the American Society for Information Science by Learned Information, Inc, 1990.
Henderson, Diane (2003). “The Ex Libris Project: a great beginning.” ELAN 33: [9]-10.
Henderson, Diane (2003). “The Ex Libris Project: part II.” ELAN 34: [5, 13].
Henderson, Diane (2004). “ELA’s early years, 1990 to 1995.” ELAN 36: (Special Issue of ELAN – A History of Library and Information Studies In Canada): [9], 18.
Henderson, Diane (2004). “University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies.” In ELAN Special Issue: A History of Education for Library and Information Studies In Canada: 8-13.
Associations/Committees:
Ex Libris Association (Member of Recruitment Committee and Board)
Retired Academics and Librarians of the University of Toronto (Served on the Executive Committee as Treasurer and was Vice-President in 2009)
Accomplishments:
For many years, Diane was Chief Librarian of the Faculty of Information Science Library at the University of Toronto.
She was an active member of the Ex Libris Association, writing articles for ELAN and compiling the column “News from Canadian Library/Information Studies Schools” from 2007 to 2014.
During her later years, Diane did volunteer work at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Ontario Field Ornithologists, and the Retired Academics and Librarians of the University of Toronto.
Sources:
Globe and Mail December 11, 2019
Norman Horrocks, n.d.
b. Oct. 18, 1927, Manchester, England; d. Oct. 14, 2010, Halifax, NS
Education:
1950 FLA, Manchester Library School
1961 BA (University of Western Australia)
1963 ALAA (Associate of the Library Association of Australia)
1964 MLS (University of Pittsburgh)
1972 PhD (University of Pittsburgh)
Positions:
1943-1945 and 1950-1954 Libraries of Manchester, England (interrupted by three years in the British Army`s Intelligence Corp, 1945-1948)
1954-1956 Librarian of the British Council, Cyprus
1956-1963 Technical Librarian, State Library of Western Australia
1963-1971 Instructor and Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh
1972-1986 Director, School of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University
1983-1986 Dean, Faculty of Management Studies, Dalhousie University
1986-1995 Editorial Vice President, Scarecrow Press, Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University
1995-2010 Professor Emeritus, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Publications:
Doma, Keith and Norman Horrocks (1965). Public library service in Beaver County: a financial and organizational body. Prepared for the Health and Welfare Council of Beaver County. Rochester, Pa.
Horrocks, Norman (1986). Self study document: an instrument for the evaluation of library technician programmes in Canada. Prepared by Dr. Norman Horrocks for the Committee on Technicians (Role and Education), Canadian Library Association. Ottawa: CLA.
Horrocks, Norman (2004). “Dalhousie School of Library and Information Studies.” Toronto: ELAN.
Horrocks, Norman (2005). Perspectives, insights & priorities: 17 leaders speak freely of librarianship. Edited by Norman Horrocks, with a foreword by ED Krudla. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
Associations/Committees:
ALA, ALISE, CLA, United Kingdom Library Association
Special committees: Publishing, library education, international and comparative librarianship
Honours:
2006 Officer of the Order of Canada
1979 Atlantic Provinces Library Association Merit Award
1982 Distinguished Alumnus, University of Pittsburgh
1995 Lippincott Award
2003 the Nova Scotia Library Association established an Annual Norman Horrocks Award for Excellence in Library Leadership
2004 International Kaula Gold Award
2005 Honorary member of the Dalhousie School of Associated Alumni
2008 Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals of the UK
2011 Norman Horrocks-Scarecrow Press Annual Conference Award established by the ALA Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) to honour his accomplishments and his contributions to the Ad Hoc Committee that worked to establish the RMRT. The first award was made in 2012.
Only librarian to receive honorary membership in three national library associations – American, British and Canadian.
Comments:
He was a librarian on three continents and four countries – Australia, England, the United States and Canada. “Norman was a mentor and gentle nudge.” Comments from Michael Colborne, a graduate of the College of Librarianship, University of Wales, Aberystwyth: “He always had time to share a moment with others, and he did it with grace and class… Norman’s table was never full – there was always room to pull up another chair … Through his work as regional representative for Ex Libris, Norman kept in touch with people even after they had left the profession, It was not uncommon for him to see an obituary and then get on the phone to track down some library connection.” He was the most conscientious contributor of material to the Ex Libris Biography database. In bestowing the prestigious Lippincott Award on him in 1995, the ALA committee cited “his caring committed dedication to librarianship and … his unfailing wit and humor.”
“Norman Horrocks has made outstanding contributions to library science nationally and internationally. Professor emeritus at the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University, he has inspired students and colleagues with his passion for books and librarianship. His expert advice has been sought by organizations in the fields of education, publishing and the humanities, and his broad knowledge and wise counsel have helped to build library associations worldwide. Moreover, he is highly regarded for creating and fostering professional networks that allow librarians, from rural Canada to urban Australia, to exchange ideas and advance the field of library science.” — citation from Officer of the Order of Canada, awarded April 6, 2006
Sources:
Directory of Library and Information Professionals, v.1
Colborne, Michael (2011). “Memories of Norman Horrocks.” ELAN 29 (Spring): 8.
Norman Horrocks biography at HLWIKI Canada. Accessed August 8, 2013.
Norman Horrocks biography at Wikipedia. Accessed August 8, 2013.
Norman Horrocks, legendary librarian dies, Tribute from Library Journal. Accessed August 8, 2013.
Obituary: Dignity: A.L. Mattatall Funeral Home. Accessed August 8, 2013.
University of Toronto catalogue.
Anne Hume graduate BA portrait. Credit Queen's Yearbook for the Arts 1914
b. 5 April 1892, Seymour Twp. (near Campbellford), ON; d. 3 Jan. 1966, Campbellford, ON.
Education:
1914 BA Queen’s University
1915 Specialist Teaching Certificate in English and History Queen’s University
1919 Library certificate Ontario Library School, Toronto
1957 LL.D. Queen’s University
Positions
1915–19 Ontario High school teacher in Beaverton, New Liskeard and Campbellford
1920 Library Assistant, Fort William Public Library (now Thunder Bay)
1920–36 Chief Librarian, Walkerville Public Library
1936–57 Chief Librarian, Windsor Public Library
Occasional lecturer, McGill and Toronto University Library Schools
Publications
Hume, Anne (1933). “Adult education and reading lists.” Ontario Library Review 17 (3): 102–104.
Hume, Anne (1937). “City of Windsor Public Library system.” Ontario Library Review 21 (3): 133.
Hume, Anne (1938). “Pensions.” Ontario Library Review 22 (3): 193–194.
Hume, Anne (1939). “Public libraries and the schools.” Ontario Library Review 23 (2): 119–20.
Hume, Anne (1941). “Presidential address [Books in Wartime].” Ontario Library Review 25 (3): 232–234.
Hume, Anne (1944). “An experiment in community integration of the arts.” Ontario Library Review 28 (4): 478–480.
Hume, Anne (1947). “The building programme of the public library in relation to its functions.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 24 (2): 42–45, 60.
Hume, Anne (1948). “The public library and the community [Pt. 1].” Quill and Quire 14: 19–21 & 28.
Hume, Anne (1948). “The public library and the community [Pt. 2].” Quill and Quire 14: 37–40.
Hume, Anne (1948). “The Public library and the community [Pt. 3].” Quill and Quire 14: 16–19.
Hume, Anne (1949). “The librarian in the community.” Ontario Library Review 33 (1): 41–44.
Hume, Anne (1949). “Know your Library Week [in Windsor].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 5 (4): 136–140.
Hume, Anne (1954). “The Year Ahead, 1954-1955.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 9th Annual Conference Meeting, Halifax, 21–24 June 1954, pp. 30–33. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Hume, Anne (1955). “Seminole Branch Library, Windsor, Ontario.” Ontario Library Review 39 (4): 228–232.
Hume, Anne (1955). “President’s Address.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 10th Annual Conference Meeting, Saskatoon, 20–25 June 1955, pp. 4–10. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Associations
President, Ontario Library Association, 1940–1941
President, Canadian Library Association, 1954–1955
American Library Association, councillor
Canadian Association for Adult Education, councillor
Founding member of the Windsor Art Association in 1936
“Miss Hume was more than a fine librarian in the technical sense. She was a woman of firm convictions to which she held with perseverance. She was willing to fight for the library cause and had she been lacking in this characteristic she could not have achieved all that she did. Her influence was felt also in many other community organizations in which she had been so active.” — Windsor Star, January 4, 1966
Sources
“Anne Hume: Librarian, Book Service Pioneer Dies,” Windsor Star, January 4, 1966
Canadian Who’s Who 1958–1961
Windsor Public Library video profile of Anne Hume to celebrate International Women’s Day [one-and-a-half minutes]
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
Amy Hutcheson, 1962. Credit New Westminster Archives
b. 16 April 1913, Chilliwack, BC; d. 11 Oct. 1996, Vancouver, BC
Education:
1945 BA University of British Columbia (completed after interruption in 1932)
1938 Diploma in Library Science University of Toronto
Positions
1933–1937 Assistant in Fraser Valley Union Library
1938–1940 Assistant librarian in children’s department, Hamilton Public Library
1940–1941 Children’s Librarian, Fraser Valley Union Library
1942–1954 Children’s Librarian, New Westminster Public Library
1954–1973 Chief Librarian, New Westminster Public Library
Publications
Hutcheson, Amy (1950). “Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences.” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 13 (3): 2–4. [chair of the BCLA brief]
Hutcheson, Amy and Muriel Clancy (1955). “Children’s librarians [section of CLA].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 11 (6): 317–318.
Hutcheson, Amy (1965). “New Westminster Public Library, 1865–1965.” British Columbia Library Quarterly 29 (1): 3–32.
Hutcheson, Amy (1966). “A personal reaction.” British Columbia Library Quarterly 30 (1): 8–9. [view on Rose Vainstein Report on Public Libraries in British Columbia, 1966]
Hutcheson, Amy (1966). “Federal aid for librarian education and other services.” Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 21st annual conference, Calgary, June 19–24, 1966, pp. 36–38.
Hutcheson, Amy (1967). “Jasper Conference Plans.” Canadian Library 24 (3): 260–262. Ottawa: The Association.
Hutcheson, Amy, compiler (1968). “Elizabeth Homer Morton, CLA-ACB Executive Director 1946–1968.” Canadian Library 25 (1): 8–17.
Associations/Committees
1949–1950 British Columbia Library Association, President
1967–1968 Canadian Library Association, President
1961–1969 Member of the British Columbia Board of Certification for Professional Librarians
Pacific Northwest Library Association, member
Honours/Accomplishments
Named Woman of the Year by New Westminster Business and Professional Women’s club in 1965.
Honourary Life Member of British Columbia Library Association in 1973.
Two Amy Hutcheson Scholarships in Library Services for Children established in 1998 at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia [now the UBC School of Information].
Sources
Who’s who in library service, 3rd ed., 1955
New Westminster Museums & Archives (photographs and information from New Westminster Public Library heritage collection)
ELA Biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Dec. 30, 1948, Calgary, AB; d. Sept. 17, 2020, Edmonton, AB
Education:
1970 BA University of Calgary
1973 MA University of Calgary
1975 MLS University of British Columbia
Positions:
1974–1977 Head, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Calgary
1978–1983 Founding Director, Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (now Canadiana.org)
1984–1990 University Librarian, University of Regina
1990–2013 Vice-Provost and University Librarian, University of Alberta
2010–2013 Director, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta
Publications (major contributions):
Ernie published fifty-seven articles and chapters in books, and made nearly two hundred conference and public presentations. The following is a selection of his works. Many of his journal articles have been published in Feliciter, the newsletter of the Canadian Library Association; these accounts featured many smaller Canadian public libraries.
Ingles, Ernie (1973). Some aspects of dry-land agriculture in the Canadian prairies to 1925. University of Calgary. Thesis (MA).
Ingles, Ernie and Jean Tener (1978). A guide to the collections: Canadian authors manuscripts. [Calgary]: University of Calgary Library, Dept. of Rare books and Special Collections.
Ingles, Ernie (1990). Canada. Oxford: Clio.
Ingles, Ernie, Apollonia Steele, and Shirley A. Onn (1991). The Margaret P. Hess Collection. Repr. with revisions. Calgary: University of Calgary Libraries, Special Collections.
Adshead, G.R., and Ernest Ingles (1994). Bibliography of Canadian bibliographies. 3rd ed. updated, rev. and enl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Engles, Ernie (1996). “Some aspects of library development in Western Canada and their relations with the National Library of Canada.” In The National Library of Canada and Canadian Libraries: Essays in Honour of Guy Sylvestre, pp. 111–132. Edited by Jean-Rémi Brault, Gwynneth Evans, and Richard Paré. Ottawa and Montréal: CLA and ASTED.
Peel, Bruce Braden, N. Merrill Distad, and Ernest B. Ingles (2003). Peel’s bibliography of the Canadian prairies to 1953. 3rd ed., rev. and enl. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Ingles, Ernie, and 8Rs Research Team (2004). The future of heritage work in Canada: a joint CCA-CLA-ASTED-CMA project. [N.p.]: 8Rs Research Team.
Ingles, Ernest, and 8Rs Research Team (2005). The future of human resources in Canadian libraries. Edmonton: 8Rs Canadian Library Human Resource Study.
Ingles, Ernie (2005). L’avenir des ressources humaines dans les bibliothèques canadiennes. [Edmonton]: 8Rs Étude sur les ressources humaines des les bibliothèques canadiennes = 8Rs Canadian Library Human Resources Study.
Ingles, Ernie (2006). Training gaps analysis: librarians and library technicians. [Ottawa]: Cultural Human Resources Council.
Beaudry, Guylaine, Ernie Ingles, et al. (2014). The future now [electronic resource]: Canada’s libraries, archives and public memory: a report of the Royal Society of Canada’s Expert Panel on the Status and Future of Canada’s Libraries and Archives. Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada, the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada.
Beaudry, Guylaine, Ernie Ingles, et al. (2014). L’avenir au present: les bibliothèques, les centres d’archives et la mémoire collective au Canada: un rapport du groupe d’exports de la Société royal du Canada sur l’etat et l’avenir des bibliothèques et des centres d’archives du Canada.
Associations/Committees:
Ernie served in executive capacity on more than twenty-five professional associations, societies, government boards and committees. The following is a selection of his service:
President, Saskatchewan Library Association, 1987–1988
President, Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL)
President, Bibliographical Society of Canada, 1989–1991
President, Canadian Library Association, 1991
President, OCLC Members Council, 2006–2007
President, Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2009
Chair, Advisory Board of the Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
Chair, Steering Committee of the Canadian Initiative on Digital Libraries
American Research Libraries (Ernie served on numerous ARL committees and working groups, including the ARL Board of Directors, 2010–2013) Library Association of Alberta (LAA)
Awards/Honours:
During his career, Ernie received twenty-nine professional awards and four medals. The following is a selection:
1974 Ruth Cameron Medal for Librarianship
1996 Bibliographical Society of Canada Marie Tremaine Medal
2001 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Ernie was the first practicing librarian to be elected)
2001 Canadian Library Association Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
2003 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
2006 Canadian Association of Research Libraries Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship
2011 Honorary degree Blackfoot Eminent Scholar Kainai PhD from Red Crow College along with the Blackfoot title Kaaahssinnin (“Elder”)
2017 American Library Association Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship
Accomplishments/Comments:
“Ernie Ingles was one of Canada’s preeminent academic librarians and library innovators.”
“Early in his career, [which spanned more than four decades], he achieved national attention for his creation of the Canadian Author’s Manuscript Collections and the Canadian Architectural Archives. He also established the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions/ Institut canadien de microreproductins historiques, now Canadiana.org.”
His “work at CIHM/Canadiana.org led to the filming and later digital preservation of Canada’s printed , published heritage of books, periodicals and pamphlets. It also inspired his creation of the Peel’s Prairie Provinces Website at the University of Alberta (http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html ) containing full digital texts of many thousands of Western Canadian books and printed ephemera”.
At the University of Alberta, Ernie “was the driving force in linking Alberta library resources and services through the creation of Alberta’s NEOS library consortium; the Alberta Library; the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library; the Health Knowledge Network (HKN); and the First Nations Information Connection.”
“During Ernie’s time as Chair, SLIS [the University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies] created and launched the online MLIS program: the first wholly online degree of its kind in Canada.”
“His crowning achievement was the creation [in 1993] of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute (NELI) that is internationally acclaimed as a landmark contribution to professional leadership development. More than 400 librarians have developed their leadership potential through the NELI experience.”
Ernie’s leadership-development program “has inspired, strengthened, and equipped a new generation to step up to the plate, and his leadership of the massive five-year 8Rs study – The Future of Human Resources in Canadian Libraries (2004) established the fundamental data on which to ramp up our human resource development for a resilient future.”
“Lots of librarians come and go, and they do make a major impact. But after some years, they're forgotten. But this is not going to happen with the legacy that Ernie has left behind. The things he has done will definitely stand the test of time.”
“The Ernest (Ernie) B. Ingles Reading Room is located in Bruce Peel Special Collections, a donor-supported research and teaching library on the University of Alberta’s North Campus. The library houses more than 100,000 rare books and other significant archival materials. Before the COVID-19 pandemic significantly scaled back travel, it drew researchers from around the world.”
Sources:
Canadian Who’s Who, vol. 31, 1996.
Globe and Mail. Ernest Boyce Ingles, 1948–2020. [obituary published from Oct. 3 to Oct. 7, 2020] [Accessed Nov.21, 2021]
University of Alberta. School of Library and Information Studies. SLIS marks the passing of former chair Ernie Ingles. [Accessed Nov. 21, 2021]
Folio, University of Alberta. Former chief librarian leaves indelible legacy. [Accessed Nov. 21, 2021]
The Quad, University of Alberta.Lowering the flag: Ernie Ingles, September 25, 2020. [Accessed Nov. 21, 2021]
University of Alberta Library innovator honoured for bringing information to millions. [Accessed Nov. 21, 2021]
Newman, Wendy (2021). “Ernie Ingles (1948–1920): a lasting legacy.” ELAN 69 (Spring): 9.
Three tributes to Ernie are also found in the Ex Libris Association’s “Remembering our Colleagues and Friends":
— Calgary Herald. Ernest Boyce Ingles (Ernie), December 30, 1948–September 17, 2020. [obituary]
— Association of Research Libraries. Memorial: Ernest Boyce “Ernie” Ingles, 1948–1920 [by Kaylyn Groves].
— Distad, Merrill (2020). “Ernest Boyce (“Ernie”) Ingles, BA, MLS, FRSC, December 30, 1948–September 17, 2020.”
Mary Kinley Ingraham. Credit Acadia University
b. March 6, 1874, Cape Wolfe (or West Cape), PEI; d. November 18, 1949, Livermore, Maine
Education:
1899 Graduate of Acadia Ladies’ Seminary
1915 BA Acadia University
1916 MA Acadia University
1917 Summer course, Simmons College School of Library Science, Boston
Positions:
c.1897–1905 School teacher in Nova Scotia
1911–1913 School teacher in Massachusetts and Georgia, USA
1917–1944 Chief Librarian, Acadia University
1918–1944 Instructor, library science, Acadia University
Publications:
Ingraham, M.K. (1921). “Italian and English book collectors of the Renaissance.” Dalhousie Review 1, no. 3: 293–300.
Ingraham, M.K. (1920). Acadia; a play in five acts. Wolfville, NS: Davidson Bros.
Ingraham, M.K. (1921). “Librarianship as a profession.” Canadian Bookman n.s., 3, no. 1: 38–40.
Ingraham, M.K. (1931). “The bookmobiles of Acadia University,” Library Journal 56, 15 January: 62–63.
Ingraham, M.K. (1932). A month of dreams. [poetry] Wolfville, NS.: n.p.
Ingraham, M.K. (1940). “Sixth annual conference of the reorganized Maritime Library Association.” Bulletin of the Maritime Library Association 5, no. 2: 2–6.
Ingraham, M.K. (1947). Seventy-five years: historical sketch of the United Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Kentville, NS: n.p.
Ingraham, M.K. (1949). “My favorite books.” Bulletin of the Maritime Library Association 13, no. 2: 1–2.
Associations/Committees:
1918–1944 Secretary-Treasurer, Maritime Library (Institute) Association
Honours:
1947 DCL, Acadia University
Accomplishments:
Mary Kinley Ingraham was a significant public figure in the development of libraries in the Maritime Provinces after she became chief librarian of the Emmerson Memorial Library at Acadia University in 1917. During her quarter century tenure she improved and expanded circulating holdings, special collections, and library services to students and faculty, even during the Great Depression. Trained initially as teacher, she saw the need to institute formal courses on library education as part of the BA program at Acadia for Maritime library students. As well, she inaugurated a bookmobile service in 1930-31 for rural Maritime readers who were not served by public libraries in three provinces. Later, Acadia operated a travelling library service for communities that continued until WW II. Ingraham was one of the founders and secretary-treasurer of the Maritime Library Association (1918-28) which continued in 1934 as the Maritime Library Institute (1935-40) and became the Atlantic Provinces Library Association in 1957. She contributed many short articles to the Association Bulletin.
Ingraham also was active on the literary front, publishing two volumes of verse, plays, a history of the Baptist Women’s Union, and serving as editor for the review journal, “Book Parlance,” 1924-29. Upon her retirement she was made Librarian Emerita.
Comments:
“The best preparation will not make a librarian out of a man or woman who has not innate fitness for the work. No one should seriously consider librarianship as a profession who does not know himself to have in his approach to books the grave, searching attitude of the scholar.” M.K. Ingraham (1920)
“Acadia University at Wolfville in the land of Evangeline, with Mrs. Mary K. Ingraham as its ‘live librarian,’ has been the most active representative of library progress in relation with the Maritime Library Association….” Mary S. Saxe, Library Journal (1927)
“Librarians who had the pleasure of knowing and working with her were charmed and impressed by her personality. She helped us to know one another better through the Bulletin. She gave us the joy at conventions of hearing minutes and reports—written and read—in her own inimitable style.” D. Cullen (1950)
Sources:
Shaw, Beatrice M. H. (1924). “Maritime Librarian,” Maclean’s Magazine, 15 Nov., 37: 68–70.
Beals, Helen D. (1944). “Mrs. Ingraham Retires” Library Journal 69, 1 December, 1944: 1061.
Cullen, Dorothy (1950). “Mrs Mary Kinley Ingraham 1874-1949,” Bulletin of the Maritime Library Association 14, no. 2: 1–2.
Elliott, J.H. (1954). “Pioneers! O Pioneers! 4. Mary Kinley Ingraham.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 10, June: 261.
Harrison, Tanja. (2012). “The courage to connect: Mary Kinley Ingraham and the development of libraries in the Maritimes.” Library & Information History 28, no. 2: 75–102.
Bird, Kym (2005). “In the beauty of holiness, from the womb of the morning: allegory, morality, and politics in Mary Kinley Ingraham’s Acadia,” Theatre Research in Canada 26, no. 1–2: 26-55.
Mary Kinley Ingraham Fonds, Acadia University Archives, Accession No. 1944.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. 4 Jan. 1914, Vancouver, BC; d. 27 Jan., 1979, Victoria, BC
Education:
1933 BA University of British Columbia
1934 Teaching certificate, University of British Columbia
1935 MA University of Toronto
Positions
1937–1940 Teacher, South Burnaby High School
1940–1942 Provincial Archivist, British Columbia
1942–1945 Served in Royal Canadian Air Force
1946–1974 Provincial Librarian and Archivist, British Columbia
Publications (selected contributions)
Ireland, Willard E. (1935). British Columbia, the United States, and British American union. MA thesis, University of Toronto).
Ireland, Willard E. (1939). “The evolution of the boundaries of British Columbia.” British Columbia Historical Quarterly 3 (4): 263–282.
Ireland, Willard E. (1941). “Pre-Confederation defense problems of the Pacific colonies.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Report, 20 (1): 41–54.
Ireland, Willard E. (1941). “James Douglas and the Russian American Company, 1840.” British Columbia Historical Quarterly 5 (1): 53–66.
Ireland, Willard E. (1947). “Librarian of Congress in Seattle [Luther Evans].” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 10 (2): 7.
Ireland, Willard E., ed. (1948). “Gold-rush days in Victoria, 1858-1859.” British Columbia Historical Quarterly 12 (3): 231–246
Ireland, Willard E. (1948). “British Columbia’s American heritage.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Report 27 (1): 67–73.
Ireland, Willard E., et al. (1948). Preliminary Report on Legislative Libraries in Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Ireland, Willard E., chair (1950). Programme for library development in British Columbia, 1950: Being a condensation and revision of the “Programme for library development in British Columbia, 1945.” Victoria, B.C: Joint Committee of the British Columbia Library Association and the Public Library Commission.
Ireland, Willard E. (1953). “The Provincial archival scene.” Canadian Historical Association Annual Report 32 (1): 69–76.
Ireland, Willard E. (1955). “The Year Ahead [1955-1956].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 12 (2): 17–19.
Ireland, Willard E. (1956). “Promoting Library Service.” [Presidential Address]. In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 11th Annual Conference Meeting, Niagara Falls, 11–15 June 1956, pp. 1–5. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Associations
President, British Columbia Library Association, 1948–1949
President, Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1953–1954
President, Canadian Library Association, 1955–1956
Victoria College Council, BC, 1950–1963
University of Victoria Board of Governors, executive member, 1963–1971
Social Science Research Council, member
Honours
Awarded a Canadian Centennial Medal, 1967
LL.D. University of Simon Fraser, 1971
LL.D. University of Victoria, 1978
Voted “Man of the Year” by British Columbia press, 1966
Comments
“Nicknamed ‘The Oracle,’ Ireland was known for his ability to come up with an answer to almost any query.” — Ann Lindsay, 2011.
“When he rose to speak, his audiences always knew they would never be bored. He gave history a touch of class and more than of touch of humor.” — Vancouver Province, March 9, 1974.
“Few men deserve so full the appellation ‘a gentleman and a scholar.’ I wish to thank Willard Ireland for his years of devoted service in the government and people of this province.” — Ernie Hall, B.C. Provincial Secretary in the Vancouver Sun, December 29, 1973.
Sources
Canadian Who’s Who, 1961–1963.
“Provincial Librarian becomes Provincial Archivist and Provincial Librarian.” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 10 (3) 1946: 6.
Aileen Campbell, “Archivist Ireland plans no exposes.” Vancouver Province, March 9, 1974, p. 5.
Ann Lindsay (2011). “Archives and justice: Willard Ireland’s contribution to the changing legal framework of aboriginal rights in Canada, 1963–1973.” Archivaria 71 (spring): 35–62.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Toronto, ON; d. Dec. 8, 2005, Toronto, ON
Education:
1948 BA (University of Toronto)
1954 BLS (University of Toronto)
1964 MLS (University of Toronto)
Positions:
1943–1945 Order Clerk and Adult Circulation Assistant, Windsor Public Library
1946–1947 District Librarian, Canadian Army
1948–1949 Branch Librarian, Windsor Public Library
1949–1955 Reference Librarian, Windsor Public Library
1955–1964 Head of Reference, Windsor Public Library
1964–1972 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto School of Library Science
1972–1980 Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Library Science
1980–1984 Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Library Science
1984– 2005 Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Library and Information Science
Publications:
Jarvi, Edith (1955). Bibliography of Windsor and Essex County.
Jarvi, Edith (1963), ed. Labour in Canada: basic books for Canadian public libraries. Ottawa.
Jarvi, Edith (1966). Bibliography and reference materials, courses 511 and 512. Toronto: School of Library Science, University of Toronto.
Jarvi, Edith (1967), ed. Guide to basic reference books. Toronto: University of Toronto School of Library Science.
Jarvi, Edith (1968), ed. Guide to basic reference books for Canadian libraries. Toronto: University of Toronto School of Library Science.
Jarvi, Edith (1975). Canadian Provincial government publications in a nutshell. Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science.
Jarvi, Edith (1975). Tracing Canadian provincial government publications.
Jarvi, Edith (1976). Access to Canadian government publications in Canadian academic and public libraries. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Jarvi, Edith and Kristi Nilsen (1976). Canadian government publications in microform.
Jarvi, Edith, Isabel K. McLean, and Catherine MacKenzie (1978). Canadian selection: books and periodicals for libraries. Toronto: University of Toronto Press for the Centre for Research in Librarianship, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.
Jarvi, Edith (1978). “ Review of National Conference on the State of Canadian Bibliography, Vancouver, Canada, May 22–24, 1974: Proceedings by Anne B. Piternick.” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 48, 3: 362–363.
Jarvi, Edith (1981). “Review of Microlog Index: Canadian government publications and reports / Rapports et publications gouvernementales canadiennes.” Government Publications Review 8, 5: 441–443.
Jarvi, Edith T. and Diane Henderson (1983). “Canadian reference books; Or Benevolent ignorance dispelled.” Reference Services Review 11, 3: 87–95.
Jarvi, Edith (1983).”Review of English literary journals, 1900–1950: a guide to information sources by Michael N. Stanton.” Victorian Periodicals Review 16, 2: 66–67.
Associations/Committees:
Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
Canadian Association of Public Libraries
Canadian Association for Special Libraries and Information Services
Canadian Library Association
Ex Libris Association
Honours/Accomplishments:
1989 Distinguished Graduate Award (received from the University of Toronto Faculty of Library and Information Science).
Other Areas of Activity:
During World War II, Jarvi served as lieutenant in the Canadian Women's Army Corps.
As a member of the Ex Libris Association, in 1988 Professor Jarvi advocated for the establishment of the Elizabeth Morton Memorial Fund to honour the legacy of the first Executive Director of the Canadian Library Association. Professor Jarvi was the first person to make a contribution toward the Fund.
Comments:
Many of the books authored by Professor Jarvi were seminal publications on reference services and resources used by librarians throughout Canada.
Kathleen Ruby Jenkins, n.d. Credit Concordia University
b. June 18, 1904, Montréal; d. Aug. 11, 1992, Québec City
Education:
1926 BA McGill University
1926 Certificate McGill Library School, summer
1967 LL.D. (honorary) Sir George Williams University [now Concordia University]
Positions:
1927–1931 Assistant Librarian, Westmount Public Library
1931–1962 Chief Librarian, Westmount Public Library
Special Lecturer on Library Administration, McGill University Library School
Publications:
Jenkins, Kathleen (1937). “Reorganizing the Westmount Library.” Ontario Library Review 21 (3): 119.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1941). “Book selection.” Quebec Library Association Bulletin 9 (winter): 5–6.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1944). “Committee on library development.” Quebec Library Association Bulletin 19 (summer): 7–8.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1946). “[The public library of the future].” In Papers read at the first annual convention, Montréal, October 11, 12, 13 [1945], Quebec Library Association/Association des Bibliothécaires du Québec, 20–23. Montréal: The Association, 1946.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1949). “[Canadian Library Association].” Special Libraries Association Regional [Third] Conference Proceedings; Montréal, Québec, Sept. 23–24, 1949: 28–35. [Montréal?]: Montreal, Toronto and Western New York chapters, Special Libraries Association.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1950). “Inter-relations of the library and the community: national aspects.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 7 (2): 46–49.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1950). “A review of the Association’s traditions.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 7 (3): 91–93.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1953). “Books and the sales tax.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9 (4): 100–101.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1963). “Pensions.” Canadian Library 20 (3): 112.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1966). Montreal: Island City of the St. Lawrence. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
Jenkins, Kathleen (1970). “Gerhard Richard Lomer.” Canadian Library Journal 27 (1): 130.
Associations:
President, Quebec Library Association, 1935–1936
President, Canadian Library Association, 1949–1950
American Library Association
President, Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women, Montreal Club, 1940–1942
Canadian Federation of University Women
Quebec Association of Adult Education, councilor
Comments/Accomplishments:
“Miss Jenkins’ leadership and service far transcended the admirable work she performed in building up her own library. She was liberal with advice to small communities struggling to set up libraries of their own, she was a founding member, and later president, of both the Quebec Library Association (Association des Bibliothécaires du Quebec) and of the Canadian Library Association, and she was special lecturer for many sessions at the Graduate School of Library Science at McGill University.” — Douglass Burns Clarke, citing Jenkins' contributions at the honorary degree presentation in 1967.
In 1967 she was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal for having provided valuable service to her community and country.
Sources:
Canadian Who’s Who, 1967–1969.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce
b. Aug. 7, 1922, Berlin, Germany d. Feb 12, 2012, Ottawa
Education:
BA 1949 Music (Toronto)
Positions:
1950-1962 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Toronto Music Library
1962-1970 Supervisor, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Toronto Music Library
1970-1987 Chief, Music Division, National Library of Canada
Publications
Kallmann, Helmut. (1950) “Canadian music as a field for research” in Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto Monthly Bulletin, March p 2.
Kallmann, Helmut ed. (1952, 1972) Catalogue of Canadian composers, edited by Helmut Kallmann. Revised and enlarged edition [Toronto] Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Also published in 1972 by Scholarly Press.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1956) “Music in Canada and the Canadian Music Council,” Canadian Library Association Bulletin vol. 12, no. 5, pp 178-80.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1956, 1957) “A century of musical periodicals in Canada” in the Canadian Music Journal, vol 1 (Autumn 1956) and (Winter 1957). pp 37-43, pp 25-30.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1958) “From the archives” in Canadian Music Journal, vol 2, no 4, Summer. pp 45-52.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1958) “Kanada” in Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart(MGG). Band 7 Jensen-Kyrie. Kassel, Barenreiter-Verlag. pp 499-507.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1958) “The Percy Scholes Collection: nucleus for a National Music Library” in the Canadian Music Journal, 2, Spring. pp 43-45.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1959) “From the archives: organs and organ players in Canada” in Canadian Music Journal, vol 3, no 3, Spring. pp 41-47.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1960, 1969, 1987) A history of music in Canada 1534-1914. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. Published as Canadian University Paperbacks 90 in 1969. Reprinted with list of amendments by University of Toronto Press in 1987.
Kallmann, Helmut. ed. (1964) Directory of degree graduates. Toronto, University of Toronto, Music Alumni Association.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1965, 1966) Canadian-built 19th century musical instruments: a checklist. Toronto, Music Library, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Second revised edition published by the Edmonton Public Library.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1965, 1966) “Music in Canada” in CBC Times, 15-21 May. pp 11-13; abridged reprint published as “Themes in Canadian history” in the Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto Monthly Bulletin, Winter.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1966) “First fifteen years of Canadian League of Composers = La Ligue canadien des compositeurs: Quinze ans d'activité” in Le Compositeur canadien = Canadian Composer, 7, March = mars. pp 18-19.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1967) “Composition in Canada: 1867-1967” in the Toronto Telegram, special advertising section, 28 January.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1967) “Music in Canada, 1867, a long glance backward = Musique au Canada en 1867, un long regard vers le passé in Musicanada, 3, July-August. pp 5-6.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1969) “Historical background” in Aspects of music in Canada, edited by Arnold Walter. Toronto : University of Toronto Press. pp 26-61.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1969, 1970, 1971) “Music” in Canadian Annual Review 1968, Canadian Annual Review 1969, Canadian Annual Review 1970, edited by John T. Saywell. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. pp 464-478, pp 445-459, pp 552-564.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1971, 1978) “Beethoven and Canada: a miscellany” in the Canada Music Book = Les Cahiers canadiens de la musique, 2, Spring-Summer. pp 107-117. Later reprinted with minor revisions in the German-Canadian Yearbook = Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch, vol 4. Toronto, Historical Society of Mecklenburg Upper Canada. pp 286-294.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1975) “Canadian musical publishing” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada / Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada. Toronto, Bibliographical Society of Canada. pp 40-48.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1976) “A national music collection = Une Collection musicale très accessible” in Musicanada, 30, November. pp 7, 12.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1979) “Le Fonds Claude Champagne à la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada” dans Compositeurs au Québec Claude Champagne. Montréal, Centre de musique canadienne au Québec, 1979. pp 34-35.
Kallmann, Helmut. ed. (1981, 1992, 2001) Encyclopedia of music in Canada, edited by Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, and Kenneth Winters. Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 2nd Edition 1992.
Kallmann, Helmut. éd . (1983, 1993, 2001) Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada, éditée par Helmut Kallmann, Gilles Potvin, et Kenneth Winters. Montréal, Fides. 2e édition.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1985) “The Canadian League of Composers in the 1950s: the heroic years” in Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario, vol 9. London, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Music, Department of Music History. pp 37-54.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1985) “Music history” in the Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton, Hurtig Publishers.pp 1183-1187. Second edition published 1988. pp 1415-1419. Also available on line at https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/music-history. Accessed February 23, 2012.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1985) “Music in Upper Canada” in The Shaping of Ontario: from exploration to Confederation. Belleville, Mika Publishing Company. pp 220-227.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1986) “Canada and the music of the Grand Siècle” in Musical Canada, 58, December.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1987) “The music collection of the National Library of Canada” in Fontes Artis Musicae, vol 34, no 4, October-December. pp 174-184
Kallmann, Helmut (1987) “Musique, histoire de la” dans l'Encyclopédie du Canada, tome 2. Montréal, Stanké. pp 1298-1302.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1988) Glenn Gould 1988 : exhibition held in Ottawa from April 14, 1988 to September 15, 1988 = exposition tenue à Ottawa du14 avril 1988 au 15 septembre 1988. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada.
Kallmann, Helmut ed. (1990) Music for orchestra I = Musique pour orchestre I. Ottawa, Canadian Musical Heritage Society = Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1994) “The making of a one-country encyclopedia” in Fontes Artis Musicae, vol 41, no 1, January-March. pp 3-19.
Kallmann, Helmut. ed. (1996-2004) Ex-Internees Newsletter, September 1996 - February 2004. 10 issues.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1997) “Historical background” in Music in Canada: a collection of essays / La Musique au Canada, volume 1, edited by Guido Bimberg. Kanada-Studien Band 25. Bochum, Universitatsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1997; revised from Aspects of Music in Canada. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969.
Kallmann, Helmut. (1997) “Mapping Canada's music: a life's task” in Music in Canada: a collection of essays / La Musique au Canada, volume 1, edited by Guido Bimberg. Kanada-Studien Band 25. Bochum, Universitätsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer. pp 11-34.
Kallmann, Helmut. ed. (1998) Piano music lll: marches and dances = Musique pour piano lll: marches et danses. Ottawa, Canadian Musical Heritage Society = Société pour le patrimoine musical canadien.
Kallmann, Helmut. (2001) “The Matter of Identity” in Outlook, published in the July-August 2001.
Musical Canada : Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann edited by John Beckwith and Frederick A. Hall and published in 1988 by the University of Toronto Press contains a complete list of Dr. Kallmann's publications from 1949 to 1987 (see “Writing” pp 315-324). He wrote many articles, reviews and record jacket notes that have not been included above. These appeared in publications such as the Canadian Encyclopedia, Canadian Association of Music Libraries Newsletter, Canadian Composer, Canadian Music Journal, Canadian Library Journal, Canadian Literature, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Dictionary of Contemporary Music, Directory of Music Research Libraries, Encyclopedia Canadiana, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, Harvard Dictionary of Music, Musicanada, Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG), National Library News, The New Grove Dictionary, The New Grove, Dictionary of American Music and the University of Toronto Quarterly.
Associations:
Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada
Canadian Music Library Association (CMLA) later the Canadian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (CAML), Co-founder, Chairman 1957-1958, 1967-1968, honorary member
Canadian Musical Heritage Society / Société canadienne du patrimoine musical, Co-founder
Canadian League of Composers, Honorary historian
Canadian Music Council, Director 1970-71, vice-president 1971-76
International Association of Music Libraries, Canadian delegate to IAML from 1959 to 1971
Accomplishments:
“Born in Berlin in 1922, he was sent to England on the Kindertransport in 1939, but interned there and sent to Canada as an “enemy alien” when war broke out. He spent three years in a Canadian internment camp (1940-1943) and his entire family in Germany perished in the Holocaust.
He became a naturalized Canadian citizen in 1946 and began his studies at the University of Toronto. He soon recognized the scarcity of sources for the study of Canadian music and began to gather information which resulted in two pivotal publications. While at the CBC Toronto Music Library (1950-1970) he expanded and deepened its Catalogue of Canadian Composers (1952) and went on to publish A History of Music in Canada 1534-1914(1960) which remains even today a much-quoted basic reference. During this time he co-founded the Canadian Music Library Association in 1956 (now the Canadian Association of Music Libraries) and initiated collaboration with IAML. In fact, he began to contribute to RISM even before the association was founded, and became the Canadian delegate to IAML from 1959 to 1971. In 1970 he was appointed Chief of the newly-formed Music Division at the National Library of Canada, with responsibility for building a comprehensive research collection of musical Canadiana within a broadly-based international support collection, and where I had the good fortune to work under his direction until his retirement in 1987.
This is not the time nor the place to list all his accomplishments and subsequent honours, but I will just mention two lasting monuments, The Canadian Musical Heritage(25 vols.) and the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1981) / l'Encyclopédie de la musique au Canada (1983) which he co-edited with Kenneth Winters and Gilles Potvin. You may read his own article therein for more details on his life and works.” Posted by Maria Calderisi to CANMUS listserv February 12, 2012.
Comments:
In an interview published in the National Library News(vol 20, no 2, February 1988) after his retirement, Dr. Kallmann was asked about some of the more notable items in the collection, a collection that was built largely under his direction to become Canada's largest library of Canadian music. He responded “Let's start with our sound recordings, which are not used nearly enough. Perhaps people think they are only for scholars. We do not encourage recreational listening but if someone, for example, remembers a Canada radio singer from the 1940s or a certain Canadian composer, we can check what we have and arrange an appointment. In addition, we have a special collection of 600 sound recordings of speeches by statesmen, monarchs and famous actors dating from roughly 1910 to 1950 which was donated by Dr André and Pearl Ross. There are also the valuable information files of Percy Scholes, the British lexicographer, who compiled the Oxford Companion to Music. They contain newspaper clippings, magazine articles, program notes and letters on several thousand musical subjects covering over forty years. We also have some very early Canadian music, a book of Catholic liturgical music published in 1800. We have between two-thirds and three-quarters of the music and music books (church music, song collections and instruction books) known to be published before Confederation. But our oldest objects, in fact, the oldest objects in the National Library, are two Chinese bells dating from the Han period (206 B.C. ““ AD.8). Our biggest single object is the Glenn Gould piano. He had six or seven but this is the one he fell in love with and which he used for more of his sound recordings than any other. We also have his famous low chair. I could mention many rare editions going back to the sixteenth century, or the complete works of many composers, a Beethoven manuscript written for a German-Canadian musician or the papers of several hundred Canadian musicians and musical societies. Among these are such distinguished names as Sir Ernest MacMillan, Claude Champagne and Arnold Walter, all deceased, and Istvan Anhalt, Murray Schafer and John Weinzweig among the living. The music materials range from manuscripts and correspondence to paintings, watercolours, inscribed batons, medals, trophies and one death mask.”
Honours:
Member, Order of Canada 1986
Doctor of Laws University of Toronto 1971
Carleton University appointed him honorary adjunct professor 1975
Canadian Music Council Medal 1977
Association of Canadian Studies Award of Merit 1998
Canadian Association of Music Libraries named its distinguished service award for Dr. Kallmann in 2000
Canadian Music Council / Canadian League of Composers Friends of Canadian Music Award 2006
Sources:
Adams, James. “Spirited from Nazi Germany as a teen, he became Canada's doctor of music” in the Globe and Mail, February 25, 2012. p S10.
Elliott, Robin. “Canadian music” in Queen's Quarterly, vol 96, Spring 1989.
”Helmut Kallmann” in the Canadian Encyclopedia. Accessed February 24, 2012.
“Helmut Kallmann” in the Lexikon verfolgter Musiker und Musikerinnennat Accessed March 12, 2012.
Keer, Dawn L. Helmut Kallmann [microform]: an account of his contribution to music librarianship and scholarship in Canada. Canadian theses = Thèses canadiennes. Thesis (M.L.I.S.)–University of Alberta, 1991. Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1992.
Keer, Dawn L. “Helmut Kallmann: pioneer Canadian music historian/librarian” in Readings in Canadian Library History 2 edited by Peter F. McNally. Ottawa, Canadian Library Association, 1996. pp 365-388.
“Music at the National Library; Dr. Kallmann reminisces about the Music Division” in National Library News, vol 20, no 2, February 1988. pp 1-5.
Musical Canada: Words and Music Honouring Helmut Kallmann edited by John Beckwith and Frederick A. Hall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988.
Page, Shelley. “Canada's first great music historian: Refugee from Nazi oppression spent time in internment camps” in Ottawa Citizen, March 4, 2012 p B5.
ELA biography compiled by Paul McCormick.
Alice Kane graduate portrait. Credit Old Magill yearbook 1930
b. June 18, 1904, Montréal; d. Aug. 11, 1992, Québec City
Education:
1930 BA McGill University
1933 Diploma in Librarianship, University of Toronto Library School
1941 BLS University of Toronto Library School
Positions:
1930–1973 Toronto Public Library: Boys and Girls House, Dufferin-St. Clair, Riverdale, Queen and Lisgar , and Danforth Branches, Head, Parkdale Branch
1965–1973 In charge of story-telling in Boys and Girls in-service training programme, Toronto Public Library
1969–1972 Taught story telling, Summer School, University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB
1965–1974 Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
1979 Taught the first course ever offered by the Storytellers School of Toronto, which she helped to found
Publications:
Kane, Alice E. (1933). Gipsies in fiction, 5 p., an unpublished University of Toronto Library School project.
Kane, Alice E. (1942). “Introducing foreign children to a Canadian library.” The School; A Magazine Devoted to Elementary and Secondary Education 30 (March): 602-606.
Kane, Alice E. (1943). “Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye.” Childhood Education 20, no. 3 (Nov.): 118–120.
Kane, Alice E. (1948). “Puppets.” Recreation 41, no. 1 (April): 20–22.
Aubry, Claude (1965). The Christmas wolf. Translated from the French by Alice Kane and illustrated by Edouard Wolf. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Aubry, Claude (1968). The magic fiddler and other legends of French Canada. Translated by Alice E. Kane. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates.
Aubry, Claude (1983). The king of the Thousand Islands: a Canadian fairy tale Translated from the French by Alice Kane and illustrated by Vesna Krstanovich. Toronto: Clark Irwin.
Kane, Alice (1983). Songs and sayings of an Ulster childhood. Edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.
Kane, Alice (1995). The Dreamer awakes. Edited by. Sean Kane. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press.
Tales from an Irish Hearth. (Ten classic tales of ordinary folk and of fairies, witches, pookas and changelings). 1985. Audiocassette. All three tapes available from the Storytellers School of Toronto.
Honours:
1998 D. Litt, York University “in recognition of her contributions as a storyteller, librarian, writer and teacher.”
1998 The CBC commissioned a documentary on her life.
Associations/Committees:
Member and co-founder of the Story Tellers School of Toronto
The Bruce Trail Association
Accomplishments:
1979 Co-founder of the Storytellers School.
Alice Kane Award established with Storytelling School of Toronto.
Other areas of Activity:
1,001 Friday Nights of Storytelling (weekly adult storytelling session).
Regular performer at Toronto Festival of Storytelling.
Comments:
“Alice Kane is the best storyteller in North America, if not the English-speaking world.” – Edith Fowke
“Internationally recognized as a storyteller of spell-binding effect and folklorist of international stature. Her background as a native of Ulster, combined with her prodigious memory, enabled her to become a teller of the great, long and intricately wonder-tales of Celtic tradition. She told those tales with spell-binding effect never failing to move her audiences profoundly while she implicitly Instructed them in depth, meaning and magic of oral culture. “ Kane was a primary figure in the revitalization of storytelling that led to the establishment of the Toronto Storytellers School and the city's famed storytelling festival. A former librarian in the Toronto Public Library, Kane has done more than any other Canadian to foster and resuscitate oral literature. At the time of the awarding her D.Litt, in lieu of a convocation address, Rita Cox, protege of the 90-year old Kane, told one of Kane's favourite stories.”
A deeply literate person, trained as a librarian and full of respect for books, Alice Kane was a primary figure in the revitalization of storytelling that led to the establishment of the Toronto Storytellers School and the city's famed storytelling festival. She has contributed greatly to a rich cultural life in Ontario by encouraging storytellers from many different cultures to share their stories. As a librarian in the Toronto Public Library's “Golden Age,” Alice Kane played a major role in developing the library's world-renowned children's library services. She trained, influenced and inspired many other librarians to provide children with the best and most significant access to the world's literatures. In the process, Ms Kane also offered access to the world of wonders to be found in oral narratives. Her legacy includes the Storytellers School, the storytelling festivals held annually in Toronto, Vancouver and Whitehorse, and the presence of courses in oral literature at several universities.
(From: York University upon the granting of her D.Litt)
Sources:
Kirk, Heather. (1991). Alice Kane: River without end. Stories without end. Accessed September 3, 2023.
Globe and Mail, Obituaries, June 3 and 4, 2003
ELAN no. 34, Fall 2003, p. 15
Ex Libris News, no.8, Fall 1990, p.13-14
b. Jan. 23, 1943, Ottawa, ON; d Sept. 12, 2017, Winchester, ON
Education:
1963 BA (Carleton University)
Positions:
1963-1966 Teacher, North Dundas District High School, Chesterville, ON and Bell High School, Ottawa, ON
1966-2001 Library and Archives Canada
1966 Archivist, National Map Collection, Public Archives of Canada
1967 Head, Cataloguing Unit, National Map Collection
1972 Head, Canadian Section
1974-2001 Director, National Map Collection (Cartographic and Architectural Archives Division, Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division)
2001 Director, Visual and Sound Archives
Publications:
Betty Kidd published various reports, reviews and articles. The following is a selective list of her works.
Kidd, Betty (1970). County atlases of Canada: a descriptive catalogue. Ottawa: National Map Collection.
Kidd, Betty, with Karen Lochhead (1971). “The National Map Collection of Canada.” SLA Geography and Map Division Bulletin 85 (September): 2-12.
Kidd, Betty (1973). “International Conference on the History of Cartography [conference report.]” ACML Bulletin 13 (October): 32-33.
Kidd, Betty (1975). Using maps in tracing your family history. Ottawa: Ontario Genealogical Society, Ottawa Branch.
Kidd, Betty (1976). “Maps and atlases: a new world in rare book and manuscript collection [conference report].” ACML Bulletin 22 (October): 6-7.
Kidd, Betty and Louis Cardinal (1977). “Map user in libraries and archives.” ACML Bulletin 23 (January): 12-20.
Kidd, Betty (1979). “Information systems in the National Map Collection: a status report.” ACML Bulletin 30 (March): 41-44.
Kidd, Betty (1979). Map collections in Canada and conservation: a report based on responses to a questionnaire distributed by the Conservation Committee. Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries.
Kidd, Betty (1980). “Response from the National Map Collection concerning the National Librarian’s recent proposals.” ACML Bulletin 34 (March): 7-19.
Kidd, Betty (1980). “Preventative conservation for map collections.” Special Libraries 71 (December): 529-538.
Kidd, Betty (1981). “The administration of a large map collection.” Library Trends 29 (Winter): 473-481.
Kidd, Betty (1982). “A brief history of the National Map Collection at the Public Archives of Canada.” Archivaria 13 (Winter): 3-22.
Kidd, Betty (1982). “A selective bibliography of works by L.M. Sebert.” ACML Bulletin 42 (March): 16-19.
Kidd, Betty (1982). “Exhibiting a county map.” ACML Bulletin 42 (March): 53-54.
Kidd, Betty (2002). “ACMLA ‘founding fathers and mothers’: an interview with Betty (May) Kidd.” ACMLA Bulletin 113 (Winter): 21-25.
Kidd, Betty (2002). “Review of the ACMLA Monographic Publication Program, with recommendations for the future: Interim report.” ACMLA Bulletin 114 (Spring/Summer): 35-40.
Kidd, Betty (2003). “Digitization of cartographic materials: National Archives of Canada.” Microform & Imaging Review 32, no. 1: 27-36.
Associations/Committees:
Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA) (formerly Association of Canadian Map Libraries [ACML])
1970-1971 Chair, National Union Catalogue Committee
1970-1971 Treasurer, ACMLA
1971-1973 Chair, Directory Revision Committee
1972-1973 Chair, Publications, Committee
1973-1974 President, ACMLA
1974-1975 Past President, ACMLA
1974-1975 Chair, Nominating Committee
1975-1985 Chair, Conservation Committee
2002-2006 Chair, Publications Committee
Honours:
1986 Recipient, ACMLA Honours Award
2007 Honorary Member, ACMLA
Comments:
Betty was one of the founding members of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, and assumed an active role in the Association. When she was nominated as an Honorary Member of the Association in 2007 for her role and service, it was noted that Betty also gave “encouragement and opportunity to her staff to attend meetings, hold office, and participate in the work of the Association. She acted as counsel and supporter of Board members, providing a home for the Association during her tenure at the LAC [Library and Archives Canada].”
When Betty received the ACMLA Honours Award in 1986, Lou Sebert made these remarks about Betty: “In her work beyond the walls of the NMC [National Map Collection], Betty has been a contributing editor of Imago Mundi, Cartographica and the Bulletin of the Special Libraries Association (Geography and Map Division). She is a founding member of ACML and is a member of the Topographic Research Committee of the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names. Betty has long been aware of the value of the ACML, and it is no exaggeration to say that our Association would not be in its present strong position without her unfailing support.”
Betty also served on the boards of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and the Russell Historical Society / Keith M. Boyd Museum.
Betty retired in 2001 ending a career of thirty-five years. Throughout her years at Library and Archives Canada, “Betty was closely associated with the development of the departmental cartographic programs and that of the Canadian and international map preservation community.”
Sources:
ACMLA Bulletins Accessed Jan. 15, 2018.
Betty Kidd Obituary Accessed Jan. 15, 2018.
WorldCat
b. Mar. 7, 1940, Hedley, BC; d. Nov 25, 2015, Edmonton, AB
Education:
BSC (University of British Columbia)
MLS (University of Chicago)
Positions:
Library and computer management positions in British Columbia, New York and Illinois
1967-1980 Associate Professor, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto
1980-1984 Dean, School of Library and Information Science, University of Alberta
1984-1992 Professor, School of Library and information Science, University of Alberta
1992- Research Consultant, University of Alberta Libraries. Information Technology Services (ITS) Division
Publications:
Kurmey, William J. (1964). An evaluation of automatically prepared abstracts and indexes. Chicago: Dept. of Photoduplication, University of Chicago Library. MLS thesis.
Kurmey, William J. (1967). Education of librarians and information specialists: brief for the study of scientific and technical information in Canada, Science Secretariat. Toronto: University of Toronto, School of Library Science.
Kurmey, William J. (1970). MARC II applications programs. Toronto: University of Toronto, School of Library Science.
Kurmey, William J. (1970). Guide to System/360 job control cards. Toronto: University of Toronto, School of Library Science.
Kurmey, William J. (1971). Data processing in a library science curriculum. [Toronto: s.n.]
Kurmey, William J. (1972). Study of traffic density and expenditures in STI: final report. Toronto: [s.n.]
Peel, Bruce and William J. Kurmey (1983). Cooperation among Ontario university libraries. Toronto: Council of Ontario Universities.
Kurmey, William J. (1990). COBOL programs for libraries. Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press.
Comments:
“In his early years at the Toronto Faculty of Library Science he developed many of the first FLS courses in information systems (what was termed automation during this period) and information and retrieval. In order to teach the University of Toronto FLS library school students about computers and computing (most of whom had no experience with, nor affinity for, computers), Bill designed a very simple programming language and had the students write machine-level programs to perform some basic library processes, such as sorting. The students then encoded their programming routines on punched cards and then submitted their jobs to the mainframe inputoutput room to see if the programmes would compile, run, and most importantly, get the desired output. It was an innovative challenging and novel way to introduce the students to the concepts of computing, and it reflected Bill’s idiosyncratic and unique approach to teaching and it also illustrates the important emphasis he placed on self-discovery and exploration in the learning process.”
As Dean at the University of Alberta, his greatest success, in his own words, “was achieving recognition on the part of the profession that we were there, and were willing to work with the profession and involve them in our program.” He also viewed as a significant achievement the reorganization of the curriculum, and he worked to introduce technology into all the courses as well as to initiate courses to meet the concerns of the profession with regard to management training.
“He attended many formal and informal symposiums and conferences as a representative of the School. As an aside, Bill`s amazingly spirited dancing at the Library Association of Alberta`s annual conferences at Jasper Park Lodge was an annual highlight!”
“Bill was generous with his technology enthusiasms, securing computer hardwar“ from California for his friends and colleagues and donating countless hours of time to helping many of those less “techy” set up, configure, and troubleshoot their computers. The computer doctor (i.e. Bill) would show up at one’s house with his black satchel… and then proceed to perform his arcane ’alchemy’ setting up or restoring one’s computer into good working order.”
His private life took some interesting turns. He was the youngest in a Ukrainian family, care giver for his widowed mother and generous support for his siblings and their children and built computers for his nephews. He was a partier extraordinaire at conferences, a witty participant at student beer bashes and single malt scotch tastings and escaped academia in the summers by panning for gold in the Yukon. Post-retirement activities included travel, gold panning and an "avid and accomplished activity that was almost on a par with his passion for computer technology – knitting. Bill was an avid and accomplished knitter for many years, in fact as an undergraduate student at the University of British Columbia, he earned money by teaching classes in knitting and in ballroom dancing!"
Bill never achieved the PhD. One writer has indicated that “his doctoral-thesis attempts to create a linguistic translation program were thwarted by the day`s technology.” ( i.e. he was ahead of his time where the state of technology was concerned).
Sources:
“Lives lived.” Globe and Mail, April 26, 2016.
In memoriam: William J. Kurmey. Compiled from the writings of Robert Brundin with contributions from Gretchen Brundin, Robin Inskip, Aaron Kurmey and Doug Poff.