Biographies of Canadian Librarians and Archivists

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Biographies of Canadian Librarians and Archivists

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There are many individuals who have made their mark in library and information science in Canada. The purpose of this biographical database is to present the most significant facts about the professional life of each of those listed and to identify a few useful sources of further information.

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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Lamb, William Kaye

William Kaye Lamb portrait about 1948. Credit Canadian Library Association

b. 11 May 1904, New Westminster, BC; d. 24 Aug. 1999, Vancouver, BC

Education:

1927 BA University of British Columbia
1928–1929 Studied at the Sorbonne and École libre des sciences politiques
1930 MA University of British Columbia
1933 PhD University of London School of Economics

Positions:

1934–1940 Provincial Librarian and Archivist, British Columbia
1936–1940 Superintendent, British Columbia Public Library Commission
1940–1948 Head Librarian, University of British Columbia
1948–1969 Dominion Archivist of Canada
1953–1969 National Librarian, National Library of Canada

Selected Publications:

This listing includes a sample of the extensive publications of Dr. Lamb.
A more complete listing can be found in the Bibliography of the Published Works of William Kaye Lamb published in Archivaria vol. 15 in 1983.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1941?). The mystery of Mrs. Barkley's diary: notes on the voyage of the Imperial Eagle, 1786–87. Canada?: s.n.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1943). The founding of Fort Victoria. Victoria, B.C.: s.n., p. 71–92

Lamb, W. Kaye (1944?). A bibliography of the printed writings of Frederic William Howay. Compiled, with a biographical introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. Vancouver?: s.n., p. 27–51.

Lamb,W. Kaye (1951). The governorship of Richard Blanshard. Victoria, B.C.: s.n.

Harmon, Daniel Williams (1957). Sixteen years in the Indian country: the journal of Daniel Williams Harmon, 1800-1816. Edited with an introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. Toronto: Macmillan.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1962). The hero of Upper Canada. Toronto: Rous & Mann Press.

Union list of manuscripts in Canadian repositories = Catalogue collectif des manuscrits des archives canadiennes (1968). Director: W. Kaye Lamb. Ottawa: Queen's Printer.

Mackenzie, Sir Alexander (1970). The journals and letters of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Edited by W. Kaye Lamb. Cambridge, England: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1971). Canada's five centuries: from discovery to present day. Toronto: McGraw-Hill.

Lamb, W. Kaye (c1971). The history of Canada: from discovery to present day. New York: American Heritage Press.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1974). Development of the National Archives: report. Canberra: Australian Government Pub. Service.

Hacking, Norman R and W. Kaye Lamb (1974). Princess story: a century and a half of west coast shipping. Vancouver: Mitchell Press.

Hacking, Norman R and W, Kaye Lamb (1976). The Princess story: a century and a half of West Coast shipping, 2d ed. Vancouver: Mitchell Press.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1977). History of the Canadian Pacific Railway. New York: Macmillan.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1982). F.W. Howay: a bibliography. Vancouver: William Hoffer and Stephen Lunsford.

Vancouver, George (1984). A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world, 1791-1795. With an introduction and appendices, 4 vols. Edited by W. Kaye Lamb. London: Hakluyt Society.

Puget, Peter John (1990?). Vancouver discovers Vancouver: an excerpt from the rough logs of Second Lieutenant Peter John Puget. Edited by W.K. Lamb. Burnaby, B.C.: Vancouver Conference on Exploration and Discovery.

Lamb, W. Kaye (1991). Empress to the Orient. Vancouver: Vancouver Maritime Museum Society.

Harmon, Daniel Williams. Harmon's journal, 1800-1819 (2006). [Edited by W. Kaye Lamb]; with a foreword by Jennifer S.H. Brown 1st TouchWood edition. Victoria, B.C.: TouchWood Editions.

Fraser, Simon (2007). The letters and journals of Simon Fraser, 1806–1808. Edited and introduced by W. Kaye Lamb. Toronto: Dundurn Press.

Associations/Committees:

1939–1940 President, British Columbia Library Association
1945–1946 President, Pacific Northwest Library Association
1947–1948 President, Canadian Library Association
1953–1964 President, Champlain Society
1957–1958 President, Canadian Historical Association
1961–1962 President, Society of Archivists (Great Britain and Commonwealth)
1964–1965 President, Society of American Archivists
1965–1966 President, Royal Society of Canada

Honours:

1949 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1969 Officer of the Order of Canada
1969 Honorary Member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
LL.D. awarded by Canadian universities: British Columbia (1948), Manitoba (1953), Toronto (1954), Saskatchewan (1956), Assumption [now Windsor] (1958), Victoria (1964), McMaster (1966), New Brunswick (1967), York (1968).
D.S.Litt awarded by University of VIctoria (Toronto), 1961
1965 J.B. Tyrell Historical Medal, Royal Society of Canada
1983 Festschrift in Archivaria 15: Archives and Libraries: Essays in Honour of Dr. W. Kaye Lamb
Awards created in his honour include: the Association of Canadian Archivists’ W. Kaye Lamb Prize established in 1983, the Ex Libris Association and Canadian Library Association’s W. Kaye Lamb Award for Service to Seniors established in 2002, and the British Columbia Historical Foundation’s W. Kaye Lamb Scholarship.
The British Columbia Historical Federation began awarding a student scholarships on British Columbia history in his honour in 2001.

Accomplishments:

1937 Founded and edited the British Columbia Historical Quarterly for ten years until 1946.

1936 Became Superintendent and Secretary of the BC Provincial Library Commission. He oversaw the development of the British Columbia Document Disposal Act.

From 1940 to 1948, he served as Librarian of the University of British Columbia, and that institution remained a very special connection for him for the rest of his life. As a result, not only does the Library hold records on his career there, but later in life, he donated a number of items to Special Collections including the bulk of his notes and papers relating to the major four-volume work he edited on the voyages of Captain George Vancouver, and a number of other records relating to works on the Pacific Northwest. Of very special interest to him at UBC was the Howay Reid Collection, a collection that he acquired for the Library. He had been a great friend of both Judge Howay and Robie Reid, and both during his lifetime and after his death, rare and/or valuable works relating to the exploration of the Pacific Northwest were donated to UBC to supplement this collection.

From 1948 to 1969 he served as Dominion Archivist during which time he greatly broadened the scope of the archives, incorporating film, television and sound archives, and he also created a comprehensive federal program for the management of government information holdings.

From 1953 to 1968 he was Canada's National Librarian: he built the library service into a world-class institution.

Dr. Lamb carried out surveys of library and archival institutions in Nigeria and Guinea for the Ford Foundation in 1961 and undertook a major archival study for the Government of Australia in 1973.

Papers:

Some archival material held at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Archival description in the BCAUL at https://memorybc.ca/william-kaye-lamb-collection;rad. Accessed May 9, 2013. The major portion of Dr. Lamb's private and professional papers and his books, however, are housed in other institutions.

Recording his early career, the Archives of British Columbia holds some papers listed in the Government Records Catalogue, GR-1738, and occasional references in the Non-Government Records Catalogue, e.g. MS-1240 and MS-0207. These cover the period of time when he was in Victoria, serving as Provincial Librarian and Archivist, 1934–40.

He is represented in the University of British Columbia in the Lamb Research Collection which contains 1.3 m of textual records and in the Library fonds, 1908-1995.

From 1948 until 1969, he was in Ottawa, where he was first appointed as Dominion Archivist in 1947 and later as Canada's first National Librarian in 1953. The bulk of his papers, both official and private, generated during those years are in the Library and Archives of Canada in the W. Kaye Lamb Fonds [multiple media] 1949–1998, Reference R9380-0-3-E, MG 31-D8 which contains 10.34 m. of textual records. A copy of the finding aid to these holdings, Finding Aid 1644, [PDF download] is included in Series 1 Personal Papers and Biographical Materials.

Sources:

Canadian Who’s Who, volume 23, p. 486 (1988).
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil.William Kaye Lamb: a Eulogy . August 31, 1999. [PDF accessed May 1, 2013]
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “William Kaye Lamb.” Papers of the BIbliographical Society of Canada 38, no. 2 (2000): 26-32. [PDF accessed Nov. 8, 2023]
Association of Canadian Archivists. W. Kaye Lamb Prize. [Accessed April 15, 2023]
Cook, Terry. “An Archival Revolution: W. Kaye Lamb and the Transformation of the Archival Profession.” Archivaria 60, 2005: 185-234. [PDF Accessed April 1, 2026]
Evans, Gwynneth, Elizabeth Hawkins and Joan Honeywell. Bibliography of the Published Works of William Kaye Lamb. Archivaria 15, 1983: 131-144. [PDF accessed August 15, 2013]

Land, Reginald Brian

R. Brian Land c. 1964. Credit Univ. of Toronto Staff Bulletinn

b. July 29, 1927, Niagara Falls, ON; d. Nov. 29, 2016, Georgetown, ON

Education:

1949 BA University of Toronto
1953 BLS University of Toronto Library School
1956 MLS University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science
1960 MA University of Toronto (Political Science)

Positions:

1953-1955 Toronto Public Library, Reference Library
1955-1956 University of Toronto Library, Cataloguer
1956-1957 Windsor Public Library, Business and Industry Division
1957-1959 Associate Editor of Canadian Business
1959-1963 University of Toronto Library, Assistant Librarian
1963-1964 Executive Assistant to the Honorable Walter Gordon, then Lester Pearson’s Minister of Finance
1964-1972 Director, later Dean, University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science
1973-1974 Part time Commissioner, Canadian Radio-Television Commission
1973-1993 Professor, University of Toronto, Faculty of Library and Information Science
1978-1993 Executive Director, Legislative Library of Ontario
1993-2016 Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Publications:

Land, Brian (1958). “City & trade directories published in Canada.” Montreal: Canadian Business.
Land, Brian (1961). Directory of business, trade and professional associations in Canada. 2nd ed. Montreal: Canadian Business.
Land, Brian (1962). Avenues of research: a businessman’s guide to sources of business information. Montreal: Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Land, Brian (1964). Education for librarianship: a memorandum prepared for the Ontario University Presidents’ Research Committee, Subcommittee on Librarianship. Toronto: s.n.
Land, Brian (1965). Eglington: the election study of a federal constituency. Toronto: P. Martin Associates.
Land, Brian, Vernon Ross and Samuel Rothstein (1965). Presentation by the directors of three library school. [Audio book]. [Moosejaw?]: Saskatchewan Library Association.
Land, Brian (1965). Library school curricula: [memorandum to members of the Sub-Committee on Librarianship of the Ontario University Presidents’ Research Committee]. [Toronto]: [s.n].
Land, Brian (1966). Library school quarters and space: the ideal. [Toronto]: University of Toronto, School of Library Science.
Land, Brian (1969). “New directions in education for librarianship in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 26, 1 (Jan.-Feb.): 36–40.
Land, Brian (1970). A description and guide to the use of Canadian government publications. [Toronto: McGraw-Hill].
Land, Brian (1972). Sources of information for the Canadian businessman. Rev. ed. Montreal: Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Land, Brian (1972). Report of the director, 1928-1965. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science.
Land, Brian (1973-1997). Directory of associations in Canada. Répertoire des associations du Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Land, Brian (1975). Collection development and co-ordination in Canadian federal and government libraries: [Audio record]. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.
Land, Brian (1978). Sources of Information for Canadian business. 3rd ed. Montreal: Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Land, Brian (1980). “Toronto. The University of Toronto Faculty of Library Science.” Offprint from Encyclopedia of library and information science v. 30: 471-491.
Land, Brian and Linda M. Grayson (1981). Research Service to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario: a brief submitted to the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, November 19, 1981. [Toronto]: [Legislative Library, Research and Information Services].
Land, Brian (1982). Memorandum to John M. Turner, M.P.P., Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, from Brian Land, Director, Legislative Library; re: question 263, results of testing by R.E.M.S. (Radiation, Environmental Management Systems Inc.). Toronto: Legislative Library, Research and Information Services.

Comments/ Accomplishments:

Brian had many accomplishments in his life. One of the high lights of his tenure as director of the library school occurred in 1972 when the School was upgraded to the Faculty of Library Science. He also implemented a new master`s programme and the first doctoral program in library science in Canada. He also planned the library schools 1972 move into new quarters in the Claude T. Bissell building.

“One of the great figures in 20th century Canadian Librarianship. He was a wonderful person and good friend to many of us. May he rest in peace.” Peter McNally

“I quite adored him and was grateful he was at the helm of FLS for my two degrees.” Sandra Black

“He was a friend, a mentor, a highly respected colleague and an example to us all. His life and his work enriched so many people.” Peter Hajnal

Sources:

Globe and Mail, Nov. 30, 2016.
WorldCat for his publications.
Weihs, Jean (2017). “I remember Brian Land.” ELAN no. 61, Spring:11.

Landon, Fred

R. Brian Land c. 1964. Credit Univ. of Toronto Staff Bulletin

Fred Landion, c. 1941. Credit Occidentalia

Education:

1906 BA University of Western Ontario
1919 MA University of Western Ontario

Positions:

1907-1916 Reporter and editor, London Free Press
1916-1923 Chief Librarian, London Public Library
1916-1923 Lecturer in History and English, Western University
1923-1947 Librarian of the University and Associate Professor, Department of History at Western
1946-1950 Vice-President, University of Western Ontario
1947-1950 Dean Graduate Studies, University of Western Ontario

Publications:

Fred Landon published hundreds of articles, news stories, reviews, and books. A comprehensive listing was compiled by Hilary Bates, “A Bibliography of Fred Landon,” Ontario History, 62.1 (March 1970): 5-16.
Selected Books
Middleton, Jesse and Fred Landon (1927-1928). The Province of Ontario: a history, 1615-1927. Toronto: Dominion Pub. Co. (5 vols.)
Landon, Fred (1941). Western Ontario and the American frontier. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Landon, Fred (1944). Lake Huron. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
Landon, Fred (1960). An exile from Canada to Van Diemen's Land: being the story of Elijah Woodman … 1837-38. Toronto: Longmans, Green.
Landon, Fred (2009). Ontario’s African-Canadian heritage: collected writings by Fred Landon, 1918-1967 edited by Karolyn Smardz Frost, et. al. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books.
Selected Articles
Landon, Fred (1917). “The library and local material.” Ontario Library Review 1.3 (February): 61-62.
Landon, Fred (1918). “J. Davis Barnett's gift to Western University.” Ontario Library Review 3.1 (August): 16.
Landon, Fred (1921). “A city library’s work.” Ontario Library Review 6.1&2 (August-November): 10-13.
Landon, Fred (1924). “Adult education - University of Western Ontario.” Ontario Library Review 9.2 (November): 34-35.
Landon, Fred (1927). “The Toronto Conference–II: Canadian Library Association.” Library Journal 52: 749–750.
Landon, Fred (1930). “Public libraries and the extension activities of universities.” Ontario Library Review 15.1 (August): 6-8.
Landon, Fred (1935). “Lawson Memorial Library.” Ontario Library Review 19.3 (August): 118–120.
Landon, Fred (1939). “Lawson Memorial Library, beautiful building, is enduring monument.” Ontario Library Review 23.1 (February): 9–10.
Landon, Fred (1945). “The library at the University of Western Ontario.” College & Research Libraries 6.2 (March): 133–141.

Associations/Committees:

1918-1920 President, London & Middlesex Historical Society
1926-1927 President, Ontario Library Association
1926-1928 President, Ontario Historical Society
1941-1942 President, Canadian Historical Association
1948-1949 President, Bibliographical Society of Canada
1950-1958 Chair, Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Honours:

1929 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1945 Awarded J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal, Royal Society of Canada
1950 D.Litt. (University of Western Ontario)
1950 LL.D (McMaster University)
1955 London Public Library branch on Wortley Road is renamed Fred Landon Branch Library
1967 Awarded Cruikshank Gold Medal, Ontario Historical Society
1987 Fred Landon Award established by Ontario Historical Society to mark the best book on regional history in Ontario

Comments:

Fred Landon excelled at many careers during his lifetime: he was a public and university librarian, journalist, editor, historian, teacher, administrator, and active leader in professional and scholarly associations. He is best known for his academic contributions to the history of Ontario, especially its southwestern region. At London Public Library, he began to assemble local history materials that form part of the present Ivey Family London Room. Fred Landon was instrumental in persuading James Davis Barnett to donate his 40,000-volume library to the Western University in 1923. Under his administrative tenure at Western, the Lawson Library opened in 1934. Fred Landon was an articulate lecturer and colleagues found him to be an efficient administrator. The libraries at Western were small in size, just more than 20,000 volumes, when Landon assumed control in 1923; when he stepped down in 1947 there were almost 170,000 volumes.

Sources:

Armstrong, Fredrick H. (1970). “Fred Landon, 1880-1969.” Ontario History 62.1 (March): 1-4.
Skidmore, Patricia. (1992). “Mind and manuscript: the work of historian-teacher Fred Landon, 1881-1969.” Ex Libris News no. 12 (Fall): 10-21.
Banks, Margaret A. (1989). The libraries at Western 1970 to 1987 with summaries of their earlier history and a 1988 postscript. London: University of Western Ontario.
Giles, Suzette (2015). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN: Ex Libris Association Newsletter no. 58 (Fall): 7-8.
ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Landon, Richard Gerald

b. Dec. 27, 1942, Armstrong, BC; d. Oct. 5, 2011, Toronto, ON

Education:

BA 1965 University of British Columbia
MLS 1967 British Columbia
1971–1972 Master’s degree in Bibliography and textual criticism, University of Leeds

1967–1988 Rare Book Cataloguer Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto
1973–2011 Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Library and Information Science (later Faculty of Information), University of Toronto
1977–2011 Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto

Publications:

1 Landon, Richard, ed. (1978). Book selling and book buying: aspects of the nineteenth century British and American book trade. Chicago: American Library Association.
Landon, Richard (1981). “Rare Canadiana”: five examples selected from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. Toronto: Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair.
Landon, Richard, ed. (1985). Editing and editors: a retrospect. Papers given at the twenty-first annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 1-2 November, 1985.
Landon, Richard (1994). “The antiquarian book trade in Britain, 1695-1830: the use of auction and booksellers catalogues.” Bibliographical Society of America Papers, 89 (11): 409–417.
Landon, Richard (1998). “The nature of the book: print and knowledge in the making.” Endeavour, 23 (12}: 41.
Landon, Richard (2003). Literary forgeries and mystifications: an exhibition. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
Landon, Richard (2005). Bibliophilia scholastica florest: fifty years of rare books and special collections at the University of Toronto. Exhibition and catalogue. Toronto: University of Toronto Library.
Landon, Richard (2006). “Who owned it and why it matters: provenance.” [sound recording].
Landon, Richard (2007). Humane letters: Bruce Rogers, designer of books and artist. With an introductory essay on collecting Bruce Rogers by Thomas T. Schweitzer. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
Landon, Richard (2008) “A half naked muscleman in trunks: Charles Atlas, superheroes, and comic book masculinity.” Journal of the fantastic in the arts 18 (2, Spring).
Landon, Richard (2009). Endless forms most beautiful: the natural history of Charles Darwin: exhibition and catalogue. Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library.
Alston, Sandra et al (2001). Book history and print culture: an exhibition celebrating the collaborative program at the University of Toronto [a catalogue.] General editors Marie Korey, Richard Landon and Phillip Oldfield]. Toronto: University of Toronto Library.
Moore, Alice and Richard Landon (1999). All in the golden afternoon: the inventions of Lewis Carroll: an exhibition selected from the Joseph Brabant Collection. Toronto: University of Toronto Library.
Oldfield Phillip and Richard Landon (2006) Ars medica: medical illustration through the ages; an exhibition to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the founding of Associated Medical Services: exhibition catalogue. Toronto: Thomas Rare Book Library..

Associations/Committees:

Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto
Member, Grolier Club
Represented the University of Toronto in many scholarly organizations

Comments:

As a farm boy from British Columbia, his earliest interest in rare books was raised through a chance 4-H Club visit to Toronto and the Library of Parliament in Ottawa. It was the beginning of what was to be. Landon never worked anywhere else but U of T, although he travelled the world attending conferences and book fairs and negotiating with booksellers. He presented learned papers and lectured at universities beyond U of T. At the time of his arrival in in 1967, “as a `shaggy haired, bespectacled and skinny cataloguer”, at what eventually became the Thomas`Fisher, Rare Book Library of the University of Toronto Libraries, the collection contained roughly 40,000 volumes. “Forty-five years later, the collections had expanded to 700,000 volumes, and 3,000 linear metres of manuscript holdings, including the private papers of writers such as Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, Leonard Cohen and Derek Walcott” . As described by Sandra `Martin, “He acted as though the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Room was his private collection. ‘That’s how he bought things and how he went after people for their papers” said bookseller David Mason, his friend. “That’s a sentimental way of saying he cared about the library as much as he cared about anything.” The result, affectionately known by many librarians as “the house that Richard built” has a world reputation that ranks it “just below international superstar collections, such as the richly endowed Houghton at Harvard and the ancient Bodleian at Oxford.” Through mentoring by his predecessor, Marion Brown, and by developing his natural talents, Richard became on of the greatest rare book librarians in the world.

Sources:

Martin, Sandra,“He built U of T’s vast rare book collection,” The Globe and Mail, Oct. 22, 2011 [PDF dowload accessed Feb. 15, 2016].
Tony Green, “Richard Landon obituary,” The Guardian, Dec. 13, 2011 [accessed June 11, 2023].

Languedoc, Adèle

Adèle Languedoc BA graduate portrait. Credit Old McGill Yearbook 1929

b. March 28, 1904, Outremont, QC; d. December 25, 1993, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1929 BA McGill University
1929 Library Diploma McGill
1946 BLS Columbia University

Positions:

1929–1936 Cataloguer, McGill University Library
1936–1945 Program Officer, McLennan Travelling Libraries Program (Program Director, 1940–1945)
1946–1950 Librarian, American Relief for France
1951–1964 Accessions Librarian, Canadian Bibliographic Centre (became the National Library of Canada in 1953)
1964–1969 Assistant National Librarian, National Library of Canada
1970–1978 Part-time Cataloguer, Pamphlets Collection, Public Archives of Canada

Publications:

Languedoc, Adele de Guerry (1947). “Extracts from letters [her work for the American Relief for France].” Quebec Library Association Bulletin no. 27 (winter): 11–14.
Languedoc, Adele de Guerry (1951). “En marge du stage d'étude de Malmö, Suède.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 7 (March): 153–155.
Languedoc, Adèle de Guerry (1966). “The national role of the ‘National Library’.” CACUL Newsletter 5: 11–15. [Canadian Association of College and University Libraries]
Languedoc, Adèle de Guerry (1968). “Centenary gifts to Canada's National Library.” Ontario Library Review 52 (3): 139–141.

Accomplishments:

When hired to work at the Canadian Bibliographic Centre in 1951, there were three librarians but no books. Along with Martha Shepard and Jean Lunn, she was referred to as a founding mother. She developed the Canadiana acquisitions program and Canadian Authors File and was well-respected for her detective work in tracking down Canadian publications and Canadian authors, especially French-language authors. She represented Canadian Library Association in 1950 at the UNESCO Seminar at Malmö, Sweden and in 1958 was chairman of the Library Advisory Committee for the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition, 1958, for the Canadian Pavilion. A keen traveler, she also went to Sweden in the 1960s as a member of the Canadian delegation to a UNESCO seminar on libraries. She also traveled to Tunisia and Algeria as a library advisor, helping them to expand their national library services under a Ford Foundation grant. Following her retirement as Assistant National Librarian in 1969, she worked part-time cataloguing a special collection of pamphlets for the Public Archives of Canada.

Sources:

Bédard, Francine. “A Library Without Books Acquisitions 1950–1953.” In Bulletin of the National Library of Canada 32 (6) [June 2000].
Hampton, Edna. At Last, Time for Reading, Globe and Mail, April 2, 1969.
“Retraite de Mlle Languedoc / Retirement of Miss Languedoc.” National Library News 1 (April–June 1969): 2.
Library and Archives Canada. Celebrating Women's Achievements. Adèle de Guerry Languedoc [accessed August 9, 2013].

Layng, Theodore (Ted)

b. 1914 in eastern Ontario; d. Sept. 27, 1988, Kingston, ON

Education:

1948 BA History (Queen’s University, Kingston, ON)

Positions:

1948-1955 Map Division, Public Archives of Canada
1955-1973 Chief, National Map Collection (Map Division), Public Archives of Canada

Publications:

Layng, Theodore E. (1956). Sixteenth-century maps relating to Canada: a checklist and bibliography. Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada.
Layng, Theodore E. (1957). “Cartography.” In Encyclopedia Canadiana.
Layng, Theodore E. (1960). “Highlights in the mapping of Canada.” Canadian Library.
Layng, Theodore E. (1961). Charting the course to Canada. Lisboa : [Comissão Executiva dos Comemoracões do V Centenário da Morte do Infante D. Henrique].
Ganong, William Francis with Theodore E. Layng (1964). Crucial maps in the early cartography and place-nomenclature of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in co-operation with the Royal Society of Canada. [Introduction, commentary and map notes by Theodore E. Layng].
Layng, Theodore E. (1964). “The first line in the cartography of Canada.” Canadian Surveyor 17.
Layng, Theodore E. (1965). “Early geographical concepts of the Northwest Passage.” Cartographica 2, no. 2: 81-91.
Layng, Theodore E. (1967). “Care and preservation of maps.” Paper presented at the First National Conference of Canadian Map Libraries, Ottawa.
Layng, Theodore E. (1968). “The custody of maps.” Paper delivered to the Pan- American Institute of Geography and Institute and published in the 1968 Proceedings.
Layng, Theodore E. (1968). “Problems in a Map Room.” Bulletin of the Canadian Library Association.

Tomkins, Meredith and Ted Layng (1976). St. James Anglican Church, Manotick, 1876-1976: a parish history. Stittsville, ON: Keith Press.

Associations/Committees:

Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
Canadian Library Association

Honours:

1972 First Honorary Member, Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives
1986 Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives Honours Award for outstanding achievement

Comments:

“Ted Layng was well known not only as a map librarian/cartographic archivist but also as an historian of cartography. As Chief of the Public Archives Map Division … Ted Layng oversaw a division which increased from 20,000 maps and plans to approximately 500,000. Decisions to collect current Canadian maps so as to ascertain complete archival records for the future, to expand into maps of foreign countries, to accept the task of compiling the Canadian contribution to the Bibliographie cartographique internationale, to collect architectural plans, to develop an automated national union catalogue, etc. were amongst those that meant that the division acquired both a national reputation as the leading and largest collection and also an excellent international reputation.”

“It was at his insistence that shallow drawer map cabinets were custom made for the National Map collection; now these cabinets are standard items … His interest in a logical arrangement of map holdings resulted in the development of an area classification, introduced in 1950 in the National Map Collection. He saw the need for a National Union Catalogue of Maps in Canada and started the slow process towards the goal both in the ACML and in the National Map Collection.”

He was one of the founders of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, and he was the first President and the first Honorary Member.

Sources:

Kidd, Betty H. “In memoriam: T.E. (Ted) Layng, 1914-1988.” ACMLA Bulletin, no. 69, Dec. 1988: 40-41.
Kidd, Betty H. “ACML Honours Awards, 1986: Theodore E. Layng.” ACML Bulletin, no. 60, Sept. 1986: 13-14.
Kidd, Betty H. “Obituaries: Theodore Edmund (Ted) Layng, 1914-1988.” Archivaria, 27 (Winter, 1988/89): 199-200.

Letts, Alberta

Alberta Letts BA portrait. Credit Occidentalia 1937

b. 22 Oct., 1914, Bridesville, BC; d. 3 Nov. 1973, Nova Scotia

Education:

BA 1937 University of Western Ontario
BLS 1939 University of Toronto

Positions:

Children's Librarian, London Public Library, 1939–40
Librarian,Middlesex County Library Association, 1940–43
Librarian, Simcoe County Library Association, 1943–46
Bookmobile Librarian, Warder Public Library, Springfield, Ohio, 1946–47
Lecturer, University of Toronto Library School, 1947–48
Assistant Director, Nova Scotia Provincial Library, 1949–54
Director, Nova Scotia Provincial Library, 1954–73

Publications:

Letts, Alberta, (1953). Manual for Assistants in Charge of Regional Branch Libraries. Halifax: Provincial Library.
Letts, Alberta (1955) “The Provincial Libraries in Nova Scotia.” Ontario Library Review 38, no. 3: 154–58.
Letts, Alberta (1955). “Nova Scotia [library development].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 11, no. 6: 300–301.
Letts, Alberta (1956). “Public Library Service in Canada.” In Library Finance: Speeches, Proceedings and Recommendations of a Day of Special Study during the Eleventh Annual Conference [1956], 13–16. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Letts, Alberta (1957). “Career Opportunities.” Canadian Library 13, no. 5: 204–205.
Letts, Alberta (1957). “Three Mountains of Endeavour.” Canadian Library 14, no. 2: 58–60 [CLA presidential address].
Letts, Alberta (1958). “The ALA Conference, 1957.” Canadian Library 14, no. 5: 201–202.
Letts, Alberta (1971). Provincial Library Service – Today and Tomorrow. Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing Company [Mary Donaldson Memorial Lecture, 1970].

Associations/Committees:

Canadian Library Association, President 1957–58
Atlantic Provinces Library Association, President 1967–68
American Library Association
International Federation of Library Associations
Canadian Federation of University Women

Honours:

The Alberta Letts Memorial lecture established at Dalhousie University.School of Library Service
The Alberta Letts Travel Award established at the Dalhousie University School of Information Management

Accomplishments:

1958–59 President, Canadian Library Association
1967–1968 President, Atlantic Provinces Library Association
1958–1959 consultant on libraries to the Indian government; member of delegation of Canadian librarians visiting West Germany as guests of the German government.

Other areas of activity:

1949, taught librarians' course at Kitchener Public Library.
Lecturer, School of Library Science (Toronto) for two years.

Sources:

“In tribute: Alberta Letts,” Atlantic Provinces Library Association Bulletin 37 (Winter 1973), 104–105.
Obit. The Chronicle Herald, Nov. 4, 1973.

Lochhead, Douglas Grant

b. Mar. 25, 1922, Guelph, ON; d. Mar. 15, 2011, Sackville, NB

Education:

1943 BA (pre-med) McGill University
1947 MA University of Toronto
1951 BLS McGill University

Positions:

1943-1945 Served in Canadian army during Second World War
1951-1952 Librarian and Professor of English, Victoria College, B.C.
1952 Librarian at Cornell University, New York State
1953-1960 University Librarian, Dalhousie University
1960-1963 Director of Libraries and Associate Professor, York University
1963-1975 Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian of Massey College and Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto
1975-1987 Davidson Professor of Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University
1987-1990 First Writer-in-Residence, Mount Allison University
1990-2011 Professor Emeritus, Mount Allison University

Selected Publications:

Lochhead, Douglas (1959). An old woman looks out on Gabarus Bay remembering history. June 8, 1958. Halifax: Three Fathom Press.
Lochhead, Douglas (1984). The panic field prose poems. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books. Goose Lane Editions.
Lochhead, Douglas (1986). Tiger in the skull: new and selected poems. Fredericton: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, Goose Lane Editions.
Lochhead, Douglas (1991). Black festival: a long poem. Sackville, NB: Harrier editions.
Lochhead, Douglas (1992). Homage to Henry Alline and other poems. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions.
Lochhead, Douglas (1997). Breakfast at Mel’s and other poems of love and places. Frederiction: Goose Lane Editions.
Lochhead, Douglas (1997). All things do continue: poems. Toronto: St Thomas Poetry Series.
Lochhead, Douglas (2000). Cape enrage: poems on a raised beach. Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn.
Lochhead, Douglas (2007). That place by Tantramar.: Sackville, New Brunswick poems. Sackville, NB: Town of Sackville.
Lochhead, Douglas (2009). Looking into trees: poems. Illustrations by Kenneth Lochhead. Sackville, NB: Sybertooth, inc.

Associations/Committees:

1967-1971 Vice-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets; Life member.
1989-1997 President, Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, NB

Honours:

1975 Golden Dog Award
1976 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
1980 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, finalist for High marsh road
1987 D.Litt. Saint Mary’s University
1987 L.L.D Dalhousie University
2002 Poet Laureate of Sackville for life
2005 Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize for High Marsh Road/ La Strada di Tantramar
Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts

Other areas of activity:

Served as an infantry officer in the Canadian Army during World War II
Taught English and was a member of library staffs in Canada, United States and Scotland
President of Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton-, N.B., 1989-1997
League of Canadian Poets life member; vice chairman, 1967-1971

Comments:

“Douglas Lochhead requested a sofa in his office for his afternoon naps. ‘You, sir, shall have a divan’ said his boss, Robertson Davies … He worked closely with Master Davies to establish two special collections: Canadian literature in English and 19th century bibliography …When he wasn’t teaching, Lochhead loved to examine the world around him and describe what he saw in verse. He was a scholar-librarian, who published more than 30 poetry collections. His first book came out in 1959, and the final one was published 50 years later, when the author was 86.” (Noreen Shanahan, The Globe and Mail).

Sources:

Canadian Poetry Online. Accessed August 15, 2013.
Obituary online. Accessed August 15, 2013.
Douglas Lochhead: Librarian was the poet laureate of Sackville. Obituary published in the Globe and Mail, April 14, 2011 and last updated August 23, 2012. Accessed August 15, 2013.
Douglas Lochhead biography at Wikipedia. Accessed August 15, 2013.
A comprehensive list of his publications can be found in the University of Toronto catalogue.

Locke, George Herbert

George Herbert Locke, n.d. Credit Victoria University, Toronto

b. Mar. 29, 1870, Beamsville, ON; d. Jan. 28 1937, Toronto, ON

Education:

1893 BA, Victoria University (Toronto)
1896 MA, B.Paed, University of Toronto
1927 (hon.) LL.D, University of Toronto
1935 (hon.) LL.D, University of Western Ontario

Positions:

1900-1905 Editor, The School Review, University of Chicago
1904-1905 Dean, College of Education, University of Chicago
1907-1908 Professor of Education and Dean, Training School for Teachers, Macdonald College, McGill University
1908-1937 Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library

Publications (major contributions):

Articles:

Locke, George H. (1904). “Instruction in the Organization and Administration of Schools and School Systems,” Educational Review 27 (May): 456-467.
Locke, George H. (1905). “Education and Social Progress,” Minutes of Proceedings with Addresses and Papers of the Fifth Convention of the [Dominion Educational] Association, Held at Winnipeg, July 26-29, 1904, p.113-19. Toronto: The Association.
Locke, George H. (1909). “The Public Library as an Educational Institution,” Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Toronto, 1908-09, p.138-43. Toronto: Warwick and Rutter.
Locke, George H. (1917). “The Privileges and Obligations of Our Public Libraries in These Days of Unrest,” Ontario Library Review 1, 4 (May): 96-99.
Locke, George H. (1917). “The President’s Address,” Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Toronto, 1916-17, p.220-23. Toronto: Warwick and Rutter.
Locke, George H. (1918). “Canadian Libraries and the War,” Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature 52, 1: 588-91.
Locke, George H. (1919). “Revery of a Bookish Librarian,” Canadian Bookman n.s., 1, 1 (Jan.): 42-43.
Locke, George H. (1922). “Recruiting for Librarianship in Canada,” Ontario Library Review 7, 1 (Aug.): 4-7.
Locke, George H. (1926). “The Toronto Public Libraries,” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 3, 3 (May-June): 87-103.
Locke, George H. (1927). “President’s Address [at ALA],” American Library Association Bulletin 21, 10 (Oct.): 36-38.
Locke George H. (1927). “Dr. Locke's Radio Talk at Edinburgh,” Ontario Library Review 12, 2 (Nov.): 36-38.
Locke, George H. (1927). “The Profession of Librarianship,” Library Journal 52 (1 Dec.): 1124-26.
Locke, George H. 1930). “The Library and Adult Education,” Libraries 35, 10 (Dec.) 1: 433-37 [address at University of the State of New York, Albany on Oct. 17, 1930]
Locke, George H. (1932). “What Librarians Do,” Illinois Libraries 14 (Oct.): 149-54.
Locke, ,George H. (1933). “Importance of Maintaining Our Social Institutions,” American Library Association Bulletin 27, 4 (April): 176-79.
Locke, George H. (1934). “Library and the Public School,” Ontario Library Review 18, 1 (Feb): 14-15.

Books:

Locke, George H. (1908). The Education of a People: The Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Macdonald College. Montréal: Witness Press.
Locke, George H. (1919). When Canada was New France. Toronto: J.M. Dent.
Locke, George H. (1923). The Queen’s Rangers. Toronto: Toronto Public Library.
Locke, George H. (1926). Builders of the Canadian Commonwealth. 2nd ed. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Locke, George H. (1930). English history. Chicago: American Library Association.
Locke, George H. (1933). Contributor with John Ridington and Mary J. L. Black. Libraries in Canada; A Study of Library Conditions and Needs. Toronto: Ryerson Press and American Library Association.
Locke, George H. and W. Stewart Wallace, eds. (1934). A Joint Catalogue of the Periodicals and Serials in the Libraries of the City of Toronto. 4th ed. Toronto: King’s Printer.

Associations (Presidential positions):

President, Arts & Letters Club, Toronto, 1910-1912
President, Canadian Club, Toronto, 1916-1917
President, Ontario Library Association, 1916-1917
President, Ontario Historical Society, 1919-1920
President, American Library Association, 1926-1927

Honours:

1931 FLA (honorary), Library Association (UK)
1939 National Historic Person designation by Canadian government, May 25, 1939

Accomplishments:

George Locke was the most outstanding Canadian librarian of the first half of the twentieth century. He revolutionized the administration, staff, buildings, and services of the Toronto Public Library and brought international attention to Toronto with innovative changes, such as Boys and Girls House, established in 1922. He was designated by the Canadian government as a Person of National Historic Significance in 1939 and a plaque was erected in 1948 to record his achievements. It reads:

“Born at Beamsville and educated at Victoria College and University of Toronto, Locke taught at Toronto, Chicago and Harvard Universities and was Dean of Education at Chicago and at MacDonald College before becoming Chief Librarian of the Toronto Public Libraries. In that position, he transformed a small institution into one of the most respected library systems on the continent. Sometime President of the American Library Association, one of the founders of the Arts & Letters Club, he was a gifted speaker and the author of books and articles on literary, historical and professional themes. He died in Toronto.”

Locke was an inspirational force in Canadian librarianship and promoted library services energetically. He was an influential force in the early years of the Ontario provincial training school for librarians (1911-27) and the librarianship program at the University of Toronto. In addition to his contributions as an author and his association presidential positions, he served as an active member of the Canadian Authors Association; Board of Regents, Victoria College; and the Senate, University of Toronto. As an educator, Locke composed many articles while editing 'The School Review' at the University of Chicago, 1900-05. On his passing, the Globe and Mail commented, “He made the public library a vital public business.” The George H. Locke Memorial Branch was named in his honour and opened by TPL in January 1949.

Sources:

G.B.V.B. “What the People of Toronto Read [Locke Interview],” Canadian Bookman 1, 2 (1909): 20-22.

“Memorial Service to the late Dr. George Herbert Locke,” in Annual Report of the Toronto Public Library, 1936, 33-40 (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1937).

Ray, Margaret V. “Tribute to a Great Name [George Herbert Locke],” Ontario Library Review 22, 2 (May 1938): 84-85.

Sanderson, Charles R. “Tribute and Resolve,” Wilson Library Bulletin 24, 10 (June 1950): 737-38. [address at opening of George Herbert Locke Memorial Branch Library]

Wallace, Malcolm W. “Dr. George Herbert Locke (1870-1937),” Ontario Library Review 21, 2 (May 1937): 59-60.

Penman, Margaret. A Century of Service: Toronto Public Library, 1883-1983 (Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1983) records Locke’s achievements at TPL.

Giles, Suzette (2013). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 53 (Spring ): 11.

Lorne Bruce (2020). George Herbert Locke and the Transformation of Toronto Public Library,1908–1937 . (Waterloo, ON: Libraries Today).

Toronto Reference Library holds some of Locke’s early correspondence, drafts of his speeches and papers, reports to Libraries and Finance Committee, as well as Board minutes on microfilm for the period 1908-38. The TPL annual reports, 1908-37, contain Locke’s yearly observations.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Lomer, Gerhard Richard

Gerhard R. Lomer. Credit Canadian Bookman May 1920

b. Mar. 6, 1882, Montreal, QC; d. Jan. 14, 1970, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1903 BA (McGill)
1904 MA (McGill)
1910 PhD (Columbia)
1910 Doctors Diploma in Education, Columbia Teacher’s College
1936 Fellow of Library Association

Positions:

1904-1906 Instructor in English, McGill University
1907-1908 Lecturer in Education, Montreal Normal School
1909-1912 Instructor in Education, University of Wisconsin
1912-1917 Instructor in English, Columbia University School of Journalism
1918-1920 Assistant editor of two series, “Chronicles of America” and “Warner’s Library of the World’s Best Literature”
1920-1947 University Librarian, McGill
1927-1949 Director and Professor of Library Administration, McGill Library School
1959-1970 Assistant Director of Library School and Professor, University of Ottawa

Publications (major works):

Articles:

Lomer, G.R. (1906). “Education as university study.” McGill University Magazine 5 (May): 322-345.
Lomer, G.R. (1930). “The university library: 1920-1930.” McGill News 11 (4, September): 7–11.
Lomer, G.R. (1937). “The Quebec Library Association.” Ontario Library Review 21 (1): 10–11.
Lomer, G.R. (1942). “The Redpath Library: half a century, 1892-1942.” McGill News 24 (1, Autumn): 9–13.
Lomer, G.R. (1946). “Background of the Canadian L.[ibrary] A.[ssociation].” Library Journal 71 (September): 1107–1110.
Lomer, G.R. (1949). “Some occupational diseases of the librarian.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6 (1): 2–11.
Lomer, G.R. (1957). “The Quebec Library Association: the first ten years.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 14 (3): 103-106.
Lomer, G.R. (1966). “Alice One Hundred.” Canadian Library 23 (2): 80-85.
Lomer, G.R. (1968). “1946—the prospect [for CLA].” In Librarianship in Canada, 1946-1967: essays in honour of Elizabeth Homer Morton, ed. by Bruce B. Peel, pp. 20-21. Victoria: Canadian Library Association.

Books:

Lomer, G.R. (1910). The concept of method. New York: Teacher’s College, Columbia University [Lomer’s original Ph.D dissertation].
Lomer, G.R. and Margaret E. Ashmun (1914). The study and practice of writing English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. [2nd ed. in 1917].
Lomer, G.R. (c.1920). The Library of McGill. Montreal: McGill Centennial Endowment Campaign.
Lomer, Gerhard R. and Margaret S. MacKay (1924), eds. A catalogue of scientific periodicals in Canadian libraries. Montreal: McGill University and the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Lomer, G.R. (1927). Library administration: lecture and study outlines. Montreal: McGill University Library School.
Lomer, G.R. (1932). Report on a proposed three-year demonstration of library service for Prince Edward Island. Montreal: McGill University Library.
Lomer, G.R. (1954). Stephen Leacock: a check-list and index of his writings. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Associations/Committees:

President, Quebec Library Association, 1932-1933
Member, Canadian Library Council, Inc., 1943-1946
Membership in national and provincial library associations: charter member of Canadian Library Association and Quebec Library Association
Member of American Library Association: various committees in 1930s such as Suggested Code of Ethics Statement (1930), Carnegie Grants-in-Aid; and host city for ALA Montreal Conference, 1934. Elected as Council member and later Executive Board member, 1946-1947.

Accomplishments:

Gerhard Lomer was already an accomplished educator, teacher, and scholar before he became McGill's University Librarian and Director of the Library School in 1920. He was a worthy successor to Charles Gould, having established a successful academic career and taught courses at the McGill summer library school. Although his career as an administrator was clouded by unrelenting financial austerity during the Great Depression and the Second World War, Lomer oversaw the steady growth of McGill’s collections. However, his main contribution to Canadian librarianship was progressive leadership in graduate library education at McGill. With the financial support of the Carnegie Corporation, which contributed $139,000 over the period 1927-40, Lomer established Canada’s first ALA accredited one-year Bachelor of Library Science program (1931) and organized summer courses in Prince Edward Island, British Columbia, and Alberta to address demand for positions. By the time of his retirement as library school director in 1949, McGill’s reputation was firmly established. In retirement, Lomer continued to contribute to library education as assistant director and teacher at the University of Ottawa.

Sources:

Burgoyne, St. George. (1920). “McGill’s new librarian.” Canadian Bookman 2 (1, January): 11.
Brown, Jack E. (1947). “Dr. Lomer's retirement from the Redpath Library.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 4 (1, October): 23-24.
Lomer, G.R. (1960). List of publications. Ottawa: n.p. [bibliography of his writings to May 1960].
Jenkins, Kathleen (1970). “Gerhard Richard Lomer.” Canadian Library Journal 27 (1): 130.
McNally, Peter F. (1988). “Scholar librarians: Gould, Lomer and Pennington.” Fontanus 1: 95–104.

Lunn, Alice Jean

b. June 10, 1910, Montreal; d. Apr. 24,1998, Ottawa

Education:

BA 1932 History (McGill)
MA 1934 History (McGill)
Royal Society of Canada Travelling Fellowship for Research in France, 1936–37
BLS 1940 (McGill)
PhD History 1942 (McGill)

Positions:

1940-1946 Cataloguer, McGill University Library
1946-1950 Chief Librarian, Fraser Institute, Montreal
1950-1952 Bibliographer, Editor of Canadiana, Canadian Bibliographic Centre
1953-1973 Director, Cataloguing Division (then Branch), National Library of Canada
1973-1975 Director, Office of Library Standards, National Library of Canada

Publications:

Lunn, Jean Elizabeth. (1935) “Agriculture and war in Canada, 1740-1760” in the Canadian Historical Review, vol 26, no 2, June: 123-136.

Lunn, Jean. (1941) “Bibliography of the history of the Canadian press” in the Canadian Historical Review, vol 22, no 4, December: 416-433.

Lunn, Jean. (1942) Economic development in New France, 1715-1760. Montreal, McGill University, PhD dissertation. French translation in 1986 (see below).

Lunn, Jean. (1944) “Canadian Newspapers before 1821 a preliminary list” in the Canadian Historical Review, vol 25, no 4, December: 417-420.

Lunn, Jean. (1950) Bibliographical Services, Canada: Final Report. Ottawa.

Lunn, Jean. (1950) “Bibliographical Services in Canada” in Review of Documentation / Revue de la documentation, vol 17, no 7, December: 193-199.

Canadiana. (1951-) Ottawa: Canadian Bibliographic Centre / Centre bibliographic canadien 1951-1952. Published semi-monthly January to November 1951 and then monthly. First issue dated January 15, 1951. Editor of Canadiana until 1966.

Lunn, Jean. (1951) “A UNESCO conference and some European libraries” in Ontario Library Review, vol 35, no 2, May: 142-145 AMICUS 90335

Lunn, Jean. (1952?) “Library in the making: Canada's National Library” [n.p. n.d.]

[Text in National Library records - written by Jean Lunn, Editor, Canadiana, Canadian Bibliographic Centre. Awaiting proclamation of the National Library Act in 1952]

Lunn, Jean. (1953) “UNESCO [PDF]. Accessed August 16, 2013.

Lunn, Jean.(1982-83) ”The National Library of Canada, 1950-1968“ in Archives and Libraries: Essays in Honour of W. Kaye Lamb Special Issue of Archivaria 15 (Winter 1982-83). pp. 86-95. [PDF download]

Lunn, Jean. (1986) Développement de la Nouvelle-France, 1763-1760. Traduit de l'anglais par Brigitte Monel-Nish ; présentation de Cameron Nish. Montréal, Presses de l'Université de Montréal.

Associations/Committees:

Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de la langue française
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Canadian Advisory Committee on the International Organization for Standardization
Technical Committee 46 (Documentation)
Canadian Committee on Cataloguing
Canadian Library Association
Standards Council of Canada

Accomplishments:

“The creation of the national bibliography, Canadiana, stands out as one of Dr. Lunn's most noteworthy achievements. Its production originated from a recommendation for bibliographic services for Canada, put forward by Dr. Lunn in a survey sponsored by Unesco in 1950. Dr. Lunn also participated in the development of the first edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules as a member of the Canadian Library Association Special Committee on Revision of A.L.A. Catalog code. …As a member of international working groups of experts, she participated in the development of the International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions for monographs and serials.” (The Retirement of Dr. Jean Lunn)

Comments:

“The national bibliography also began in 1950. In that year the Bibliographic Centre published lists of Canadian books in six instalments in the Canadian Library Association Bulletin. This was in effect a continuation of the Canadian Catalogue of Books published in Canada, about Canada as well as those written by Canadians which had been issued annually by the Toronto Public Library since 1923. In January 1951 the Centre began Canadiana, a separately-published bibliography, issued at first semimonthly, then monthly, with an annual cumulation. At first Canadiana included only commercial publications and those of the federal government. In 1953 publications of the provincial governments were added and in subsequent years sheet music, graduate theses relating to Canada published on microfilm by University Microfilms at Ann Arbor, Michigan, Canadian films and filmstrips and Canadian microforms. As time went on cataloguing became more complete for non-government publications by the addition of Dewey classification numbers, of French and English subject headings and of special classification numbers, similar in form to those used by Library of Congress, for Canadian history and literature. Indexing became more thorough. Volume increased. Canadiana grew in size from some 2,000 entries in 1951 to over 14,000 entries in 1968. (The National Library of Canada 1950-1968)

“Former Associate National Librarian Hope Clement very aptly remarked: “Those involved in Canadian studies owe a tremendous debt to Jean Lunn for creating the bibliographic tools to make works published in Canada, about Canada and by Canadians. accessible. She also played a pioneering role in the development of international bibliographic standards. On a personal note, I appreciated her as a wise and challenging mentor, whose wide knowledge and insistence on the highest standards, combined with a brilliant mind and a dry wit, made her a delight to be with. She was a unique character and will always be remembered as one of the original founders of the services of our National Library.”” (Obituary: Homage to Alice Jean Elizabeth Lunn, 1910-1998)

Sources

A Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada, 5th edition, Chicago, American Library Association, 1970.

Evans, Gwynneth. “Obituary: Homage to Alice Jean Elizabeth Lunn, 1910-1998” in the National Library News, vol 30, nos 7-8, July-August 1998. pp 13-14.

Lunn, Jean.(1982-83) “The National Library of Canada, 1950-1968” in Archives and Libraries: Essays in Honour of W. Kaye Lamb Special Issue of Archivaria 15 (Winter 1982-83). pp. 86-95.

“The Retirement of Dr. Jean Lunn- 25 years of service with the National Library” in National Library News, vol 7, no 4, July-August 1975. pp 19-20.

Who's Who in Library and Information Services. Chicago, American Library Association, 1982.

ELA biography compiled by Paul McCormick.

MacDonald, Alan Hugh

b. Mar. 3, 1943, Ottawa, ON; d. Jan. 28, 2010, Calgary, AB

Education:

1963 BA (Dalhousie University)
1964 BLS (University of Toronto)

Positions:

1964-1965 Assistant Social Sciences Librarian, Dalhousie University
1965-1966 Government Documents Librarian, Dalhousie University
1965-1967 Law Librarian, Dalhousie University
1966-1969 Assistant to Director of Libraries for Planning & Development, Dalhousie University
1966-1975 Subject Specialist for Political Science, Economics, Commerce, Strategic Studies, Law, Sociology and Anthropology, Dalhousie University
1968-1969 Assistant Chief of Technical Services, Dalhousie University
1969-1971 Law Librarian, Dalhousie University
1969-1978 Lecturer, School of Library Services, Dalhousie University
1970-1972 Assistant University Librarian, Dalhousie University
1972-1978 Health Sciences Librarian, Dalhousie University
1979-1992 Director of Libraries, University of Calgary
1984-1989 Director, University of Calgary Press
1988-1999 Director, Information Services, University of Calgary
1989-2003 University of Calgary Orator
1996-1998 Acting Director, Communications Media, University of Calgary
1999-2003 Senior Advisor to Director of Information Resources & Director of Information Technologies, University of Calgary
1999-2003 Special Assistant to the Vice-President (Academic) and Provost, University of Calgary
2000-2003 Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Communications and Culture, University of Calgary
2003-2007 Executive Director, Secretary of the Board, and Librarian, Calgary Aero Space Museum

Publications:

MacDonald Alan H. (1968). “Planning for the second century: an approach to library planning theory and practice.” APLA Bulletin (March): 7-20.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1972). Law libraries in Prince Edward Island. Halifax.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1973). “Management problems encountered by the librarian.” In: Proceedings of the CACUL Workshop Management of Audio-Visual Services. CACUL Newsletter vol. 4, no. 5 (January 29): 364-371.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1974). Survey of law library resources in Nova Scotia and proposals for development. Report submitted to the Library Committee, Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. Halifax.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1975). Thoughts on the functions of an Australian library-based information system. Prepared for the Director-General of the National Library of Australia. Canberra.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1975). Canadian situations relevant to ALBIS. Prepared for the Director-General of the National Library of Australia. Canberra.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1976). “The library environment under the Southern Cross.” APLA Bulletin (Spring): 9-13.
MacDonald Alan H. (1977). The role and priorities of the National Library: proposals towards a brief by the Canadian Library Association to the National Library of Canada. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1981). “Between friends: libraries, technologies and borders.” PNLA Quarterly vol. 45, no. 2 (Winter): 25-32.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1982). “Experience: foundation or impediment to the effective teaching of librarianship in research libraries and library schools.” CARL publications 3: 43-48.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1984). “Terra incognita: explorations of the future of libraries - can we get there from here?” In: Libraries 2000: a seminar to re-examine the function and future development of libraries in Alberta. Edmonton: Alberta Culture Library Services Branch. p. 93-106.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1989). “Shall we wrap the garbage in history: an exploration of newspaper preservation with the role of LAA.” Letter of the LAA no. 67 (January/February): 2-7.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1993). “Barriers along the less-traveled road: the legal and economic implications of interconnected systems of library collections. ” In: Communication scientifique, nouvelles technologies et rationalisation des ressources: un défi pour les bibliothèques universitaires. Montréal: Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. p. 93-98.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1993). “Harnessing the whirlwind: information technologies in the service of Aesculaplus.” Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana vol. 15, no. 2: 86-99.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1993). “Information pathfinders: a future for the teacher-librarian in difficult times.” The Bookmark (BCTLA) vol. 35, no. 2 (December): 82-91.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1994). “The survival of libraries in the electronic age.” Feliciter 40 (January): 18-22; 82-91.
MacDonald Alan H. (1994). Make waves: librarians and the duty to change. Toronto: Carswell.
MacDonald, Alan H. (1994). “Electronic Alexandria: destination or final resting place? Alexandrie électronique: havre ou point mort?” Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science vol. 19, no. 4 (December): 23-43.
MacDonald, Alan H. and Sharon Neary (1994). “New tools, new talents, and new titles: main streaming data services.” Government Information in Canada 1, no. 2 (Fall).
MacDonald, Alan H. (1995). “Mainstreaming government information in research libraries.” Government Information in Canada 2, no. 1 (Summer).
MacDonald, Alan H. and Ronald B. Bond (2003). Convocation citations of Alan H. MacDonald, University Orator, 1989-2002. Calgary: University of Calgary.

Associations/Committees:

1972-1973 Halifax Library Association, President,
1976-1977 Atlantic Provinces Association, President
1979-1980 Canadian Association for Information Science, President
1980-1981 Canadian Library Association, President
1996-1997 Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, President
1984-1985 Council of Prairie University Librarians, Chair
1989 Council of Prairie University Librarians, Chair
1991 Council of Prairie University Librarians, Chair
1996-2000 Calgary Community Network Association, Chair
n.d. CLA Writing the Future Commission, Chair

Alan was an active member in many university committees and professional associations The following is a partial list of library associations:

Canadian Association of College and University Libraries (CLA)
Canadian Library Association
Foothills Library Association
Library Association of Alberta
Australian Library and Information Association
Canadian Association of Law Libraries
Canadian Association of Public Libraries (CLA)
Canadian Association of Special Libraries and Information Services (CLA)
Canadian Health Libraries Association (one of seven founders)

Honours:

1975 Council on Library Resources Fellowship
1978 Life Member, Dalhousie School of Library Service Alumni Association
1986 University Microfilms Incorporated Executive Fellow
1986 University Microfilms Incorporated President's Achievement Award
1988 Blackwell's Award for Distinguished Canadian Academic Librarian, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries
1992 President's Award, Library Association of Alberta
1994 Bertha Bassam Open Lectureship, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto
1996 Lorne MacRae Intellectual Freedom Lectureship
1997 R.R Bowker Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award, Canadian Library Association
1997 Life Member, Canadian Library Association
1999 Alumni Jubilee Award, University of Toronto Faculty of Information Studies Alumni Association
1999 Member of the Order of the University of Calgary
2001 Distinguished Visitor-in-Residence, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Management Studies, School of Library and Information Studies
2001 Life Member, Canadian Health Libraries Association
2003 Micromedia ProQuest - CARL/ABRC Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship
2005 Honorary Life Membership, Library Association of Alberta

Other Areas of Activity:

1975 Visiting Librarian, South Australia Institute of Technology, Adelaide, South Australia
1975 Visiting Librarian, University of Adelaide, Barr Smith Library, Adelaide, South Australia
1981-1982 Editorial Board, AES: Abstracts of English Studies (Vol. 24)
1981-2004 Editorial Board, University of Calgary Press
1985-1993 Editorial Board, America History and Life

Comments:

Alan was recognized for his exemplary leadership at Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary and for his work on numerous professional associations. In presenting Alan with the award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship in 2003, the Canadian Association of Research Libraries stated:
“A number of themes are evident in Alan MacDonald’s career which serve to illustrate why he has been such an influential figure in the research library community. These include: scholarly communication, resource sharing, copyright (achieving balance between the rights of creators and users), information and learning technologies, leadership development and mentoring, collaboration, and libraries as service organizations. As a member of CARL for 15 years Alan made significant contributions to the organization, serving a number of terms as Western Representative and as Vice President in 1985/86. He was instrumental in writing the CARL constitution and by-laws and in developing CARL’s initial position on copyright. Alan was also a member of the AUCC/CARL /CASUL Joint Task Force on Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communication and their Impact on Higher Education which resulted in the Task Force report The Changing World of Scholarly Communication: Challenges and Choices for Canada. Alan was also a noted speaker and author, and as the University of Calgary Orator he wrote citations for honorary degree recipients such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Carol Shields, Sir Brian Follett and Preston Manning.”

Alan was also noted for his exceptional mentoring skills. He was a co-founder of the Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute, an institute by and for Canada's future library leaders. He was a member of the Advisory Team, 1993-1994 and a participant mentor, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2004. In 2012 the Canadian Library Association awarded the first CLA /Alan Macdonald Mentorship Award in honour of Alan's commitment to mentoring activities. “Alan was a natural mentor. Always positive, always receptive to new ideas, always ready to see potential, he inspired those around him to strive for and realize their dreams.”

Records pertaining to Alan MacDonald's roles within the library at the University of Calgary and Dalhousie University are located in the University of Calgary Archives and Special Collections.

Sources:

University of Calgary Special Collections and Archives
Dalhousie University Special Collections and Archives
Canadian Who's Who, vol. XL, 2005
Ingles, Ernie (2010). “Tribute to Alan H. MacDonald (1943-2010).” Feliciter 56 (2): 42

MacRae, Lachlan u0022Lachieu0022 Farquhar

Lachlan MacRae 1963. Credit University of British Columbia Archives

b. Oct. 7, 1914, Vancouver, BC; d. July 2, 2001, Guelph, ON

Education:

BA 1936 Chemistry (British Columbia)
BA History (British Columbia)
MA 1937 History and English literature (British Columbia)
BLS 1938 (University of Washington, Seattle).

Positions:

1939-1940 Librarian, Library Association of Portland, Oregon
1941-1944 Assistant Librarian, New Westminster Public Library
1944-1945 Assistant Librarian, Science-Industry Division, Vancouver Public Library
1945-1951 Chief Librarian, Fort William Public Library
1951-1965 Director, Scientific Information Services, Defense Research Board, Ottawa
1965-1970 Chief Librarian, University of Guelph
1970-1977 Associate National Librarian, National Library of Canada
1977-1979 Special Advisor to the National Librarian, National Library of Canada

Publications:

MacRae, Lachlan. (1948). “For free film service.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin vol 4, no 4, February: 94-95.

MacRae, Lachlan. (1949). “Index and the library.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin vol 5, no 6, May: 196-197.
[also published under the title “Canadian index: a guide to periodicals and documentary films: the value of the Canadian index to the smaller Canadian library.” Ontario Library Review vol. 33: 145-147.

MacRae, Lachlan (1949. “Film council and the library.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin vol 6, no 3 November: 122-125.

MacRae, Lachlan (1971). “National Library 1970/71; a year of network pre-development.” In: Canadian Library Association Conference 1971, Vancouver. Proceedings. Ottawa. p 2-8.

MacRae, Lachlan (1977). “Angus Mowat: letters are remembered.” Feliciter vol 23, no 11 November: 5

MacRae, Lachlan (1978). Two Glengarry tales. Ottawa: Privately printed.

Associations/Committees:

American Documentation Institute
American Library Association, Intellectual Freedom Committee
Arctic Institute, Directing Committee of Arctic Bibliography
Associate Committee on Scientific Information for the National Research Council, member, chairman
Canadian Film Institute, director 1951-1965
Canadian Library Association, life member
Data Clearing House for the Social Sciences in Canada, Board of Directors Fèdèration internationale de documentation (FID), member, council member
Ontario Library Association, member; councilor 1947-49, president 1949/50 and 1950/51
Science Council of Canada, Committee on Scientific and Technical Information
Special Libraries Association
Thunder Bay Film Council, secretary, president

Honours:

1972 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award - School of Librarianship, University of Washington

Accomplishments:

“One of Mr. MacRae's greatest attributes has been his ability to find excellent professional staff and to develop a team effort among them. He had the happy knack of delegating authority, and at the same time ensuring that all members of the staff were conversant with progress in all phases of the operation. Each one was constantly assured of a full measure of Mr. MacRae's support.

Mr. MacRae had the courage to risk his professional reputation by encouraging and supporting then-unproven innovations in university library design and operation. The degree of success achieved has done much to enhance the reputation of this university both in Canada and abroad.

The new concepts in library design and operation have attracted many visitors to Guelph from throughout the library world. Many aspects of our Library are being carefully studied and assessed by those interested in improving their own operations. Mr. MacRae's many contacts among librarians have been maintained and extended during the development of the McLaughlin Library and the University of Guelph library system.” (“Library News”)

Other areas of activity:

1950 On the staff of a UNESCO seminar on role of libraries in adult education in Malmo, Sweden - his presentation was on the use of audio-visual materials in public libraries

1956 On loan through UNESCO to the government of Egypt to conduct a survey on the feasibility of a public libraries pilot project

1961 Served as a library consultant to NATO to advise the Greek national defense staff on the establishment of a scientific and technological information organization

1980 Served as a consultant to the National Librarian of Jamaica

Comments:

“Mr. MacRae's special interest is library automation and the application of data processing techniques. He was assigned special responsibilities as the first Associate National Librarian for the implementation of the systems study on the automation of Canadian National Library services in the summer of 1970. He is the last chairman of the NRC Associate Committee on Scientific and Technological Information. Twice, he has served as the president of the Ontario Library Association, and he was a member of the first audio-visual committee of the American Library Association. From 1951 to 1965, he was the director of the Canadian Film Institute. He has the distinction of being the only non-American to serve on ALA's Committee on Intellectual Freedom.” (Noted for the alumni, Fall 1972)

Sources:

“Appointment” in Ontario Library Review vol 54, March 1970, p 52.
“Associate National Librarian / Directeur gènèral adjoint” in National Library News, vol 2, no 1, January-March 1970.
“Clement, MacRae take new duties” in Feliciter, vol 23, no 12, December 1977.
“Distinguished Alumnus Award - 1972 Lachlan MacRae” in Noted for the alumni, no 31, Fall 1972.
Ketchum, W. O. “Lachlan F. MacRae” in the Ottawa Journal, May 6, 1972.“Lachlan MacRae
Retires” - National Library Press Release 79-8 October 5, 1979.
“Library News” in the University of Guelph News Bulletin, vol, 14, no 13, March 26, 1970.“MacRae accepts Ottawa position” in the University of Guelph News Bulletin, vol 14, no 4, January 29, 1970.
Obituary - Globe and Mail, July 10, 2001, p A12.
“Obituary Lachlan Farquhar MacRae” in National Library Bulletin, vol 33, no 6, November/December 2001.
“Portrait” in Quill & Quire, vol 45 no 12, p 28 1979.
A biographical directory of professional librarians in the United States and Canada, 5th edition, Chicago, American Library Association, 1970.

ELA biography compiled by Paul McCormick

Marshall, John Maitland

John Maitland Marshall, n.d. Credit ALA Direct, 2 May, 2012

1981, Irma McDonough Milnes was the first winner of the Claude Aubry Award, given by IBBY Canada for distinguished service within the field of children's literature.

Comments:

Irma was “a life-long advocate for intellectual freedom, and Canadian children’s literature. A rich cultural and political childhood growing up in a northern Finnish community spawned Irma’s ambitions and vigorous working life in Toronto as librarian, editor, author [and] consultant for Canadian children’s literature.”
“In 1967, as a Centennial project, [Irma] began In Review, a journal for Canadian children’s books [and] in 1976, [she] spearheaded a project that lead to the establishment of the Canadian Children’s Book Centre”.
“Her work allowed travel to many towns in Ontario, Italy, Germany, Cuba and then to Finland for editorial work at the World Peace Council.”
“Irma’s love of Canadian children’s literature was reflected in her personal life as well as her professional career.”

Sources:

“Irma McDonough Milnes (1924-)” In Something about the author, v. 101 (Detroit: Gale, 1999): 132-134.
IBBY Canada Claude Aubry Award 1981 Irma McDonough Milnes. Accessed March 31, 2016.

Möller, Hans

Hans Möller, n.d. Credit McGill News

b. Nov. 10, 1918, Copenhagen, Denmark; d. Sept. 7, 2015, Montréal, QC

Education:

1945 PhD in Danish literature and language (University of Copenhagen)
1950 Library diploma

Positions:

1945 Royal Library (National Library of Denmark)
1952-1955 Assistant Director, Royal Library
1956-1969 Director, National Film Board, Canada
1969-1974 Vice-president, Visual Education Centre, Toronto
1974-1977 Chief Librarian, Ottawa Public Library
1977-1981 Undergraduate Librarian, McGill University
1981-1984 Director, McGill School of Library and Information Science
1984-1986 Acting Director of Libraries, McGill

Accomplishments:

Founding editor of Fontanus: from the collections of McGill University and the Fontanus Monograph series

He taught Scandinavian literature and organized several relevant exhibitions

1976-1978 President Canadian Association of Research Libraries

President, Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation for many years

“Librarianship reclaimed Dr. Möller in 1974, when he became the University of Ottawa’s Chief Librarian. In 1977, he came to McGill as Undergraduate Librarian, and also began teaching the “Audiovisual Materials” course in the Graduate School of Library Science, as the School was then called. From 1981 to 1984—during a vulnerable moment for the School, after it received conditional accreditation—Dr. Möller served as Director providing essential leadership, guiding the School towards a secure future. — In Memoriam tribute to Dr. Hans Möller, McGill School of Information Studies

Sources:

Peter McNally, Professor and Director, History of McGill Project.
Hans Möller Fonds at McGill University

Morison, Charles Keith

b. Feb. 12, 1891,Ormstown, QC; d. April 25, 1977, Victoria, BC

Education:

1912 BA (McGill University)
1914-1915 (University of Wisconsin Library School and field practice at Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library)
1934 BLS (McGill University)

Positions:

1915-1919 Canadian army service in France
1920-1926 Worked in the oil fields of Mexico and California
1926-1933 Trucker and investment agent in Victoria, B.C.
1934-1940 Book-van driver, then Chief Librarian, Fraser Valley Regional Library
1940-1946 Provincial Librarian, British Columbia
1940-1956 Superintendent, British Columbia Library Commission
1956-1959 Children’s librarian, Vancouver Island Regional Library

Publications:

Morison, Charles K. (1937). “Library problems in the Fraser Valley.” Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly 2 (1): 40–42.
Morison, Charles K. (1939). “Progress and poverty in the Fraser Valley.” Library Journal 64 (October): 781–784.
Morison, Charles K. (1940). “Democratic control of the regional library in British Columbia.” Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly 4 (3): 93–97.
Morison, Charles K. (1941). “British Columbia libraries in wartime.” Progressive Librarians Council Bulletin 2 (5): 1–2.
Morison, Charles K. (1944). “Library service in Northern British Columbia.” Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly 8 (3): 87–90.
Morison, Charles K. (1944). “Regional libraries in Canada.” Wilson Library Bulletin 19 (3): 181–184.
Morison, Charles K. (1944). “Certification of librarians in British Columbia.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 1 (2): 11–12.
Morison, Charles K. (1945). “Pilgrimage to the Peace [District].” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 9 (September–October): 5–6.
Morison, Charles K. (1946). “Library service in the provincial institutions of British Columbia.” Pacific Northwest Library Association Quarterly 10 (2): 83–86.
Morison, Charles K. (1947). “The invasion of the ‘Peace.’” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 3 (4): 55–56.
Morison, Charles K. (1948). “Library extension in Canada.” Librarian and Book World 37 (March): 69–73.
Morison, Charles K. (1949). “Helen Gordon Stewart, library pioneer.” Food for Thought 9 (6): 11–16 and 20.
Morison, Charles K. (1951). “Experiments in regional library service in British Columbia.” Fundamental Education 3 (Jan.): 3–9.
Morison, Charles K. (1951). “Audio visual materials: QB, BC and CBC; experiment in public relations.” Library Journal 76 (13): 1143–1144.
Morison, Charles K. (1952). The Public Library Commission of British Columbia. [Victoria B.C.]: Public Library Commission.
Morison, Charles K. (1953). “‘Little Watertown’ in BC.” Library Journal 78 (June 15): 1080–1081.
Morison, Charles K. (1954). “Margaret Clay.” American Library Association Bulletin 48 (1): 15–16, 34.
Morison, Charles K. (1956). “Library extension in British Columbia, Canada.” UNESCO Bulletin for Libraries 10 (March): 31–33.
Morison, Charles K. (1957). “British Columbia’s Public Library Commission.” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 20 (January–April): 1–13.
Morison, Charles K. (1959). “Vancouver Island: regional library service to schools.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 15 (5): 213–214.
Morison, Charles K. (1959). “Regional library development in British Columbia.” British Columbia Library Quarterly 23 (1): 3–8.
Morison, Charles K. (1969). A book pedlar in British Columbia. Victoria, B.C.: Library Development Commission.

Associations:

British Columbia Library Association, President 1937-1938
Member of Canadian Library Association, American Library Association, and Pacific Northwest Library Association

Accomplishments/Honours:

For a quarter of a century, Morison crossed the United States and Canada to many library conventions and returned with many ideas for improvements and encouragement of services in British Columbia. In a review of his career, he remarked “That [travelling] is what I have most enjoyed in library work whether in the Fraser Valley or in the Public Library Commission, meeting the public.” After his ‘retirement’ in 1956, he worked for a short time in a public library on Vancouver Island and later as a volunteer circulation assistant at Victoria College (now the University of Victoria).

The C.K. Morison Memorial Prize is awarded to students for library work by the University of British Columbia, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.

Sources:

Clay, Margaret J. (1956). “Charles Keith Morison.” British Columbia Library Association Bulletin 20 (October): 1–2.
Gilroy, Marion E. and Samuel Rothstein, eds. (1970). As we remember it: interviews with pioneering librarians of British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia School of Librarianship. [Interview with C.K. Morison, pp. 76-107].

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce.

Morisset, Auguste-Marie

Father Morisset, n.d. Credit University of Ottawa

b. Nov. 10, 1918, Copenhagen, Denmark; d. Sept. 7, 2015, Montréal, QC

Education and Priesthood:

1921 Joined The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI)
1927 Ordained priest
1930 “License” in Canon law
1935 BA University of Ottawa
1938 BSc (Library Service), Columbia University
1948 MSc (Library Service), Columbia University

Positions:

1928 Vicar at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Apôtre in Montreal
1930 Vicar at the parish of Sacré-Coeur in Ottawa
1934-1958 Chief Librarian, University of Ottawa
1938-1971 Founding Director, School of Library Science, University of Ottawa

Honours:

1976 Order of Canada
1948 First French Canadian to obtain an MLS
1977 Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal
1979 Honorary Member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Accomplishments:

1943-1944 President, Library Association of Ottawa
1950-1951 President, Bibliographical Society of Canada
1952-1959 Member, National Library Advisory Board
1954-1955 Councillor, American Library Association
1960-1961 President, ACBLF 1971 Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa
1972 Morisset Hall of the University of Ottawa inaugurated

Comments:

Father Morisset was an engaging and committed individual. Long after his retirement he continued to make periodic and surprise visits to “his” library.
“Father Morisset is highly respected for the sagacious use he has made of his talents in library affairs; but unfailing courtesy and
tact, and generous helpfulness so often shown to his fellow-librarians, have won for him legions of friends, whose numbers will doubtless be swelled now that his star has swung into the orbit of the national association.”
— P.F. Spratt, O.M.I., writing in the Canadian Library Association Bulletin, 1947

Source:

Greene, Richard and Jean LeBlanc. “Un pionnier de la bibliothéconomie au Canada français: Auguste-Marie Morisset, OMI” in Documentation et bibliothèques (vol. 36, no 3 ; juillet-septembre 2000) pp. 135-142.

ELA biography prepared by Ralph Manning.

Morrison, Frances

b. Sept. 28, 1918, Saskatoon, SK; d. Aug. 14, 2011, Saskatoon, SK

Education:

Bachelor of Home Economics 1938 (University of Saskatchewan)
BLS 1947 (University of Toronto)

Positions:

1943-1947 Library Assistant, Children's Department, Saskatoon Public Library
1948-1951 Reference, Librarian, Saskatoon Public Library
1951-1961 Assistant Chief Librarian, Saskatoon Public Library
1961-1980 Chief Librarian, Saskatoon Public Library

Associations/Committees:

Saskatchewan Library Association, President, 1951–52
Canadian Library Associaton (Vice President)
Saskatchewan Arts Board (Chair)
Meewasin Valley Authority; Saskatchewan Business and Professional Women’s Club; YWCA Saskatoon; Saskatoon Heritage Society, Heart and Stroke Foundation

Accomplishments:

Expansion of the Saskatoon Public Library Services. A new main library building for Saskatoon (Named the Frances Morrison Library) opened in 1966.
Created the Saskatoon Library’s Audiovisual Department; Fine Arts Dept. and Local History Room.

Comments:

Frances rose from a beginning non-professional library position to the position of Chief Librarian. She was the first woman to head a Saskatoon civic department . She was married to Rev. Harvey Morrison and the couple had one son. After the death of her husband in 1943, she was a single mother looking to make a living for herself and her son. She returned to University to obtain her degree in Library Science. She treated her staff at the Saskatoon Public Library like family and had a strong ability to delegate. She had actually been manager of the library long before her appointment as chief librarian. She was always aware of community needs and expanded the Saskatoon Public Library for the community embracing new technologies and needs.

Honours:

1977 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal
1980 Naming of the Saskatoon main library the Frances Morrison Library
1981 Canadian Library Association Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
1989 YWCA Woman of the Year Award, Community Service Category
1993 Canada 125 Medal for exemplary volunteer service to the Province of Saskatchewan
1999 Saskatchewan Order of Merit
University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Sciences cited her among 100 graduates of Influence Frances Morrison Award of merit is awarded by the Saskatchewan Library Association to individuals who had provided outstanding service to libraries in the province.

Sources:

Ewing Weise, Chris. “She turned the Saskatchewan library into a regional force.” The Globe and Mail, August 29, 2011, p.10.
Giles, Suzette (2012). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no.53 (FALL): 11-12.

Morton, Elizabeth Homer

Elizabeth Homer Morton, c.1968. Credit The Morton Years

Hans Möller, n.d. Credit McGill News

b. Feb. 13, 1903, Tunapuna, Trinidad; d. July 6, 1977, Ottawa, ON

Education:

BA, 1926 (Dalhousie)
1926 Nova Scotia Normal School; Ontario Library School;
MA 1969 (Chicago)

Positions:

1927-1929 Cataloguer, Toronto Public Library
1928-1931 Organized library for Saint John New Brunswick Vocational School
1931-1944 Reference Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1944-1946 Executive Secretary, Canadian Library Council
1946-1968 Executive Director, Canadian Library Association

Selected Publications:

(A more complete list can be found in The Morton Years, p 129-130)
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1931). “Report on Legislative Library.” In Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of New Brunswick from the 12^th February to the 26th March, 1931. p. 7-15.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1946). “National libraries: their organization and functions.” Term paper, University of Chicago 15 Aug. 1946. (Last known location E.H. Morton file, in the Library Development Office. Libraries and Archives Canada)
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1947a). “The Canadian library position.” Library Review (84, winter): 318-320.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1947b). “ A century of periodical indexing.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin (4, Dec.): 78-81.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1950). “The pleasant books of childhood.” Quill and Quire (16, August): 14-16, +39. [on Young Canada Book Week].
Morton, Elizabeth Homer, et al. (1952). “Ontario Library Association: the second quarter century 1926-1951.” Issued as Ontario Library Review (36, May): part II.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1956). “Promoting library service, 1955.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin (12, June): 221-224.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1957a). “CLA – ABC and recruitment materials.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin (13, April): 225-230.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1957b). “Library years 1947 and 1957.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin (13, no. 6 June): 281-285.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer (1959). “ALA-CLA liaison.” Stechert-Hafner Book News (14, Nov.): 29-31.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. 1960). “The Canadian and the American Library Associations.” American Library Association Bulletin (54, April): 282-285.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1961). “These years of CLA-ACB, 1955/1960.” Canadian Libraries (17, May): 294-395.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1964). “20 years a-growing, 1944-1964: CLC Bulletin, CLA Bulletin, Canadian Library.” Canadian Libraries (20, May): 291-293.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1965). “The Canadian Library Association – Association canadienne des bibliothèques.” In Encyclopedia Americana (5): 478
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1967). “Books to delight.” Canadian Libraries (24 Sept.): 145-148.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1969). “Libraries in the life of the Canadian nation 1931-1967.” (MA dissertation, University of Chicago).
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1970). “Canadian Library Association.” In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, ed. by Allen Kent and Harold Lancour. New York: Marcel Dekker (4): 170-192.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1971). “Raising the status of Canadian women.” Queen’s Quarterly (78): 304-308.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1974). Trinidad and Tobago: Development of library services. Serial No. 3044/RMO.RD/DBA. Paris: Unesco.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1974-75). “Library history of Canada: a panoramic survey.” Library History Review (1, Dec.): 65-98; (2, March): 82-106.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1975a). “Cooperation in Canada.” Library Trends (24, Oct.): 399-415.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1975b). Developing public libraries in Canada, 1535-1983: the Alberta Letts memorial lecture. Dalhousie University Libraries and Dalhousie University School of Library Service, Occasional Papers Series, No. 9. Halifax, N.S.
Morton, Elizabeth Homer. (1977). “The Canadian Library Association, 1900-1975.” In Livre bibliothèque et culture québécoise: Mélanges offerts à Edmond Desrochers, s.j. ed. Georges-A. Chartrand, (2): 761-799. Montréal: ASTED

Honours:

1968 Order of Canada
1969 LLD, University of Alberta
1970 D.Litt, Sir George Williams University (later Concordia)
In recognition of her professional achievements, CLA published Librarianship in Canada, 1946 to 1967 following her retirement as Executive Director in 1968.
1988 Elizabeth Homer Morton fund established

Accomplishments:

Elizabeth was instrumental in the establishment of the Canadian Library Association.

Former National Librarian, W.K. Lamb said that Morton promoted CLA’s interests with imagination, wisdom and boundless patience. Under her stewardship, CLA lobbied for the establishment of Libraries and Archives Canada and the Canadian Periodical Index. The Canadian Library Journal and Feliciter also began publication with Morton as editor.

Sources:

Hulse, Elizabeth. The Morton Years: the Canadian Library Association 1946 – 1971. With a foreword by W.Kaye Lamb. Toronto: Ex Libris Association, 2005. Full text is available on the Internet Archive with registered, free account.
The Canadian Who’s Who 1973-1975.
Current Biography Yearbook, 1961, ed. Charles Moritz. New York: Wilson,1961: 324-325.
Feliciter, November 1988.
Who’s who in library science, 1966.
Elizabeth Homer Morton biography at HLWIKI Canada. Accessed June 25, 2014.

Moses, Richard

Richard B. Moses c.1970. Credit Roger Williams College

b. July 1, 1933, Rochester, New York; d. February 6, 2017, Victoria, BC

Education:

1960 BA Harpur College, State University of New York at Binghamton
1964 MLS Rutgers University

Positions:

1963–1965 Rochester Public Library, New York State, Young Adult services librarian
1965–1967 Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Senior Youth services librarian, Community Action Program
1968–1969 University of Maryland School of Library and Information Services, Lecturer and Field Director/Instructor for “High John Project”
1969–1970 Pawtucket Public Library, Rhode Island, Regional Coordinator
1970–1971 Roger Williams College, Bristol, Rhode Island, Director
1971–1986 Oakville Public Library, Chief Librarian

Publications:

Moses, Richard B. (1965). “Just show the movies–never mind the books!” ALA Bulletin 59, no. 1 (Jan.): 58–60.
Moses, Richard B. (1965). “Revolution against poverty.” Top of the News, 22 (Nov.), 101–104.
Moses, Richard B. (1966). “Scouting the perimeter: A re-examination of the reluctant reader.” Maryland Libraries, 32 (summer): 4–8.
Moses, Richard B. (1967). “For the teens, interest comes first.” In Nancy Larrick and J. A. Stoops, eds., What is reading doing to the child? pp. 97–99. Danville, Illinois: Interstate.
Moses, Richard B. (1967). “Working with Neighborhood Centers.” Top of the News, 23 (Jan.): 142–145.
Moses, Richard B. (1968). “Jottings on High John.” ALA Bulletin, 62 (April): 377–380.
Moses, Richard B. and Mary Lee Bundy (1969). A New Approach to Educational Preparation for Public Library Service. College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland.
Moses, Richard B. (1970). “Detroit as drama or is the process the only payoff?” American Libraries 1 (Oct.): 841–842.
Moses, Richard B. (1970). “The Training of Librarians to Serve the Unserved,” pp. 71-78, in Library Service to the Unserved: Papers Presented at a Library Conference Held at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee SLIS, November 16-18, 1967, ed. by Laurence L. Sherill. New York: R.R. Bowker.
Moses, Richard B. (1972). “Hindsight on High John,” Library Journal 97, no. 9 (May 1): 1672–1674.
Moses, Richard B. (1974). “Exploding Library Myths,” in Canadian Library Progress/Progrès Des Bibliothèques Canadiennes, Vol. 2, pp 343-345. Vancouver: Versatile Publishing Company .
Moses, Richard B. (1976). “Taking Stock of the Library Armory,” Quill and Quire 42 no 10 (August): 28–29.
Moses, Richard B. (1983). “Steam Engines in the Public Library, or, Computers, Children, and Library Services.” Emergency Librarian 10 (1983): 13–15.

Associations:

American Library Association
Canadian Library Association
Ontario Library Association

Accomplishments:

Fom the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Richard (Dick) Moses, Chief Executive Officer of the Oakville Public Library from 1971–86, was, arguably, one of the most daring and innovative librarians in the Canadian public library scene. After coming to Canada from the United States, where he held various administrative positions, he and Gordon Norman founded the first Canadian radio reading service for the blind and visually print handicapped in the basement of the Library. A daring and sometimes provocative librarian, he was one of the first CEOs to train his staff to offer computer classes for young children. Under his leadership, the Halton Hills Network (HALINET, which included Halton Hills Public Library, Milton Public Library and the Oakville Public Library) was founded, which installed the first automated circulation systems for public libraries in Ontario in 1980.

A man of strong principles and an advocate of freedom of speech, Dick would sometimes oppose the City Council on such matters as the design elements of a renovation. He would even challenge his Board regarding hours of operation and the showing of controversial films. Dick was a man of many talents and abilities. He was an accomplished French horn player, playing for several orchestras across Canada. He contributed as a columnist for local newspapers, he acted in theatre, and he was a host of classical music at FM stations such as CJRT in Toronto and CKUA in Edmonton. He was instrumental in founding several arts organizations, the last being ArtSpring, the main performance and visual arts institution on Salt Spring Island (British Columbia), where he retired in 1996. His daring spirit led him to take a round-the-world voyage on a cargo ship in 2002 that he documented in a book, “By Degrees: Around the World by Tramp Freighter.” Dick was indeed a man for all seasons. — Gulf Islands Driftwood Magazine

Sources:

“Three U.S. librarians Lured North,” Wilson Library Bulletin 48 (June 1974): 842–843.
Richard Bradley Moses, online obituary in the Gulf Islands Driftwood Magazine (Saltprint Island, BC).
Oakville Public Library archives submitted by Tara Wong, CEO, and Elise Cole, Local History Librarian.

ELA biography compiled by Rick Ficek.

Moulton, Alice

Alice M. Moulton at retirement recognition, 1977

b. Sept. 23, 1911, Carbonear, NL; d. Jan. 25, 2012, Toronto, ON

Education:

High school, Sydney, NS
BA, 1933 (University of Toronto)
BLS 1964 (University of Toronto)

Positions:

1942-1964 Library clerk, University of Toronto Library
1964-1976 Head of Circulation, University of Toronto Library

Honours:

1977 Awarded the University of Toronto’s Sesquicentennial medal commemorating the University’s 150^th anniversary.
A room in the Sigmund Samuel Library (later the Gerstein Science Information Centre) is named the Alice Moulton Reading Room as a reminder of her contribution to the University of Toronto.

Comments:

Alice was the epitomy of librarianship in a time “when lady librarians always wore skirts”. Alice’s career spanned many years of momentous change in libraries at U of T and indeed elsewhere. Judy Stoffman’s splendid article in the Globe and Mail chronicles some of the changes in which Alice, as head of circulation in the largest library in Canada, was involved. Books began to be bar-coded the card catalogue gave way to the electronic ones, librarians could wear pants “(though Moulton never did) and the chief could make no decision without consulting a myriad of internal committees". In 1973, after the Robarts Library was completed, Alice, who was a superbly organized person, managed the transfer of more than a million books from the old Sigmund Samuel undergraduate library to the mammoth modern one on Toronto’s St. George Street. It was “a considerable feat, which involved measuring, layout, assembling, reshelving and took several weeks during which the library stayed open". A major challenge of the circulation department was simultaneous demand by large numbers of students for the same book being read by whole classes. Barry Griffiths, who worked in the the circulation department for 26 years, said “we eventually ended up doing three-day loans, one-day loans, over-night loans, we created a short-term loan even shorter than that – just hours – enough time just to afford a chance to go to the photocopier and copy a portion of the book". Another problem was failure to return books and Moulton worked out a system with the colleges “not to award degrees unless fines were paid in full”.

Sources:

Stoffman, Judy. “When lady librarians always wore skirts.” The Globe and Mail, April 21, 2012.

Mowat, Angus McGill

Major Angus Mowat c.1940. Credit Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario

1976 Certificate of Merit from Canadian Historical Association
1977 Heritage Award, Newfoundland Historical Association
1980 Merit Award, Atlantic Provinces Library Association
1987 Hon LL.D, Memorial University of Newfoundland
1987 Marie Tremaine Medal of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Sources:

Ann Hart, “Dr. Agnes C. O'Dea, 1911-1993,” Newfoundland & Labrador Studies, Vol. 8, Number 2, Fall, 1992

Packer, Katherine Helen

Katherine (Smith) Packer BA portrait. Credit Torontonensis 1941

b. March 20, 1918, Toronto, ON; d. Oct. 9, 2006, Toronto, ON

Education:

1941 BA (University of Toronto)
1953 AMLS (University of Michigan)
1975 PhD (University of Maryland)

Positions:

1953-1955 Rare Book Cataloguer, William L. Clemens Library, University of Michigan
1956-1959 Cataloguer, University of Manitoba
1959-1963 Catalogue Information Librarian, University of Toronto
1963-1964 Head Cataloguer, York University Library
1964-1967 Chief Librarian, Ontario College of Education (College of Education, University of Toronto, 1965-67)
1967-1979 Assistant and Associate Professor, School of Library Science, University of Toronto
1979-1984 Professor and Dean, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
1984-2006 Professor Emerita

Publications:

Packer, Katherine H. (1954). Early American school books: a bibliography based on the Boston Booksellers' catalogues of 1804. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Dept. of Library Science.

Packer, Katherine H., Delores L. Phillips, eds., and Katharine L. Ball, supervising ed. (1969). The code and the cataloguer: proceedings of the Colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules held at the School of Library Science, University of Toronto on March 31 and April 1, 1967. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Packer, Katherine H. (1975). Methods used by chemists and chemical engineers In Canadian universities to maintain current awareness with special reference to the Use of SDI systems. (PhD thesis, University of Maryland)

Packer, Katherine H. and Ann H. Schabas (1975). “Indexing,” pp. 139–144 (Appendix 8) in Martin L. Friedland, Access to the Law: A Study Conducted for the Law Reform Commission of Canada. Toronto: Carswell.

Packer, Katherine H. (1976). “Report on Canadian Library Statistics.” Toronto: University of Toronto, Faculty of Library Science.

Katharine H. Packer and Ann H. Schabas (1976). “The Imprint Date in the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules,” Library Resources & Technical Services 20 (spring): 123–130.

Packer, Katherine H. and Dagobert Soergel (1978). The Importance of SDI for current awareness in fields with severe scatter of information. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.

Packer, Katherine H. (1979). “A Study of Job Opportunities in Canada for Professional Librarians,” Ontario Library Review 63 (March): 4–11.

Packer, Katherine H. (1981). “User reactions to the microcatalogue: implications for the design of online catalogues.” In: Myths and realities: the politics: the politics of library administration. Ann Arbor: School of Library Science, University of Michigan).

Packer, Katherine H. and J. Michael Michaud (1982). “The Use and Users of COM Catalogues at the University of Toronto and the Mississauga Library E20 System,” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 3 (Fall): 1–25.

Associations/Committees:

Active on professional associations both nationally and internationally
1965-1966 Chair of Ontario Association of College and University Libraries
1965-1969 Member of American Library Association Committees
1964-1979 Member of Canadian Library Association Committees
1975-1981 Service on Committees of FID and IFLA
2000-2004 Board of Ex Libris Association; Co-chair of the Recruitment Committee and Membership Secretary

Comments:

“From the beginning Katherine strove to further the application of technology in library operations and library education through her teaching and research â€¦ She will be remembered not only by faculty, students and her many friends and associates as a distinguished practitioner, teacher and administrator, and for her determination and dedication to library and information science in general and to FIS and its goals and achievements in particular - but mostly for her lively intellect, warm personality, sense of humour and friendship." (Henderson and Williamson).

Honours:

1972 CLA Howard V. Phalin/World Book Graduate Scholarship for Library Science
1980 University of Michigan Distinguished Alumnus Award

Sources:

Henderson, Diane and Nancy Williamson. “In Memoriam: Katherine Packer, 1918-2006.” ELAN, 41 (Spring 2007): 15.
Lee Ash, ed., A Biographical Directory of Librarians in the United States and Canada, 5th ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1970, p. 834.
Curriculum Vita, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto.

Paré, Richard

b. Mar. 29, 1938, Quebec City, QC; d. Apr. 10, 2008, Ottawa, ON

Education:

B.A. 1968? (Laval); B.L.S. 1970 (Ottawa)
Intensive management program 1975 (École nationale d'administration publique)
Assistant Deputy Minister Orientation Course 1987 (Canadian Centre for Management Development)

Positions:

Pre-1973 Clerk, Library Technician, Librarian, Laval University Library
1973-1978 Director, Administrative Library and Documentation Service, Quebec Department of Communications
1978-1980 Assistant Director, Legislative Library, Quebec National Assembly
1980-1994 Associate Parliamentary Librarian, Library of Parliament
1995-2005 Parliamentary Librarian, Library of Parliament

Associations/Committees:

IFLA Section on Library and Research Services for Parliaments
Parliamentary Buildings Advisory Council
Advisory Committee on Hill Renovations

Publications:

Paré, Richard. (1996). Future regional and global cooperation in the midst of parliamentary library evolution. IFLA Conference (62nd, Beijing, August 24-30, 1996)
Paré, Richard. (2001). The Library of Parliament at the dawn of a new century. International Conference of Parliamentary Librarians (17th, Ottawa, August 15, 2001)
Paré, Richard. (2001). La gestion d'une bibliothèque parlementaire ou législatif: un survol = An overview of the management of a parliamentary library. Documentation et bibliothèques, v.47, no. 4, 133-137.
Paré, Richard. (2002). E-democracy and e-government: how will these affect libraries? IFLA Conference (68th, Glasgow, August 18-24, 2002)

Accomplishments:

Co-President (with Tony German), Ottawa Valley Book Festival, 1992-1995
Initiated the formation of the National Capital Region Libraries Consortium, 1996

Other areas of activity:

In 2000, he was interviewed by the Access to Information Review Task Force, which had a mandate to examine the scope of the Access to Information Act and develop consistent criteria for decisions respecting inclusion of institutions under the Act.

Comments:

During his term of office as Parliamentary Librarian, he significantly raised the profile of the Parliamentary Research Branch, creating eight new research officer positions in 2001. Under his aegis, the manual clipping service, Quorum, was replaced with several electronically-based information services for parliamentarians and the public. He was instrumental in the selection of Canada's first poet laureate, George Bowering, screening the nominees and reducing them to a short-list of three candidates for the consideration of the judges (i.e. the Speakers of the House of Commons and the Senate).

Sources:

Obit., Ottawa Citizen, April 17, 2008.
Feliciter, 41(1) (Jan. 1995)

Parker, Velma

b. Dec. 27, 1941, Sioux Lookout, ON; d. Apr. 27, 2018, Ottawa, ON

Education:

Teaching Certificate (Western University)
1973 MLS (Western University)

Positions:

High school teacher, Timmins, ON
Cataloguer, University of Ottawa Library
1980?-2004 Subject Specialist, Head of Cataloguing, Standards Officer, Map Division, Library and Archives Canada

Publications:

Parker, Velma, Hugo L.P. Stibbe and Vivien Cartmell, eds. (1982). Cartographic materials: a manual of interpretation for AACR2. Chicago: American Library Association.
Parker, Velma (1986-1988). Cartographic Cataloguer’s Newsletter 1-3. Ottawa: National Map Collection. (no. 4- issued as part of ACML Bulletin).
Parker, Velma (1987). “Report on the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting October 20, 1987.” ACML Bulletin 65 (1987): 36.
Parker, Velma (1988). “Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting February 19, 1988.” ACML Bulletin 66 (1988): 23.
Parker, Velma (1988). “Report of the meeting of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, Hull Quebec, March 10, 1988.” ACML Bulletin 71 (1988): 38-39.
Parker, Velma (1988). “Computer cataloguing with specific reference to archival cartographic material in the National Archives of Canada.” ACML Bulletin 69 (1988): 7-9.
Parker, Velma (1990). “Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting February 16, 1990.” ACML Bulletin 74 (1990): 26-27.
Parker, Velma (1990). “Report on the meeting of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing August 13, 1990.” ACMLA Bulletin 77 (1990): 27-29.
Parker, Velma (1991). “Canadian Committee on Cataloguing April 5, 1991.” ACMLA Bulletin 79 (1991): 28-30.
Parker, Velma (1992). “Canadian Committee on Cataloguing September 11, 1992, Hull, Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 84 (1992): 37-38.
Parker, Velma (1994). “Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting February 11, 1994, Hull, Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 90 (1994): 31-32.
Parker, Velma (1994). Geomatic data sets cataloguing rules. Ottawa: Canadian General Standards Board.
Parker, Velma and Grace Welch (1996). “Geomatics cataloguing.” ACMLA Bulletin 97 (1996): 1-6.
Parker, Velma (1997). “Revision to classification for atlases of Canada.” ACMLA Bulletin 99 (1997): 1, 7.
Parker, Velma (1997). “MARC harmonization in relation to cartographic materials.” ACMLA Bulletin 99 (1997): 2-6.
Parker, Velma (1997). “Report on the meeting of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing Sept. 19, 1997, Hull, Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 99 (1997): 8-10.
Parker, Velma (1998). “Report of the meeting of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, September 18, 1998, Hull Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 103 (1998): 44-45.
Parker, Velma (1999). “Report on the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting September 17, 1999.” ACMLA Bulletin 106 (1999): 76-78.
Parker, Velma (1999). “Cataloging map series and serials.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 27, no. 1-2: 65-101.
Parker, Velma (1999). “MARC tags for cataloging cartographic materials.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 27, no.1-2: 5-8.
Parker, Velma (2000). “Report of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting June 9, 2000.” ACMLA Bulletin 108 (2000): 68-70.
Parker, Velma, Grace Welch and Mary Larsgaard (2001). “Report on the Cataloguing Workshop on Digital Cartographic Material, Edmonton, Alberta, May 2000.” ACMLA Bulletin 110 (2001): 8-21.
Parker, Velma (2002). “Recent Canadian name changes.” ACMLA Bulletin 113 (2002): 12-16.
Parker, Velma (2002). “Report on the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing meeting September 21, 2001, National Library of Canada, Hull Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 113 (2002): 51-52.
Parker, Velma et al. (2002). Map cataloging: learning to describe cartographic materials. Chicago: Association for Library Collections & Technical Service (ALCTS).
Parker, Velma (2003). “Cataloguing notes from the Bibliographic Control Committee.” ACMLA Bulletin 116 (2003): 37-39.
Parker, Velma (2003). “Report on the meeting of the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing March 14, 2003, Gatineau (Hull), Quebec.” ACMLA Bulletin 116 (2003): 58.

Associations/Committees:

Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives (ACMLA), Treasurer, 1983-1991
ACMLA Bibliographic Control Committee (formerly Canadian Committee for Bibliographic Control of Cartographic Materials)
Canadian Committee on Cataloguing (CCC)
Anglo-American Cataloguing Committee for Cartographic Material
Inter-Agency Committee on Geomatics, Editor-in-chief of geomatic data sets cataloguing rules, 1994
Canadian General Standards Board (CGSB) Working Group on Cataloguing Standards for Geomatics

Honours:

2001 ACMLA Honours Award

Comments:

“Velma was instrumental in the development of regulatory standards, codes and cataloguing methods, working on both the National and International Standards Committees. She was known among her peers for expertise in cataloguing and description.”

Velma’s work in cataloguing, metadata and Dublin Core “made her the key person in Canada to consult on the interpretation of cataloguing rules for maps and geographic data.”

Some of Velma’s achievements at Library and Archives Canada included “working on the harmonization of CANMARC and USMARC fixed field codes for cartographic material, and working with the National Library committee to add maps to the Canadiana CD-ROM [and AMICUS]. She also worked on the rules for archival description.”

Throughout her career, Velma presented numerous workshops on cataloguing maps in general, early cartographic material and geomatic datasets. Colleagues respected her “great attention to detail, the terrific work put into the first edition of Cartographic Materials: a manual of interpretation for AACR2 and her work on the revision of the LC “G” Classification section for Canada.”

Velma was also involved in editing Cartographic Materials: a manual of interpretation for AACR2 (2002 revision).

Sources:

Velma Parker obituary. Ottawa Citizen, May 9, 2018.
ACMLA Bulletin 111 (2001): 55.

Partridge, Florence

Forence Partridge c.1950. Credit University of Guelph Libranni yearbook

1946-1951 Cataloguer of Adam Shortt Collection, Library, University of Saskatchewan
1951-1954 Chief Cataloguer, Library, University of Alberta
1954-1955 Assistant Librarian, University of Alberta
1955-1982 Chief Librarian, University of Alberta
1982-1998 Librarian Emeritus, University of Alberta.

Publications :

Peel, Bruce B. and Eric Knowles (1952). The Saskatoon story, 1882-1952. Saskatoon: M.A. east.

Peel, Bruce B. (1963). “Library Planning at the University of Alberta,” Canadian Library 19 (March): 359-363.

Peel, Bruce B. (1964). “Early Mission Presses in Alberta,” Leisure: Cultural Activities Magazine 6 (4) Jan.: 12–15.

Peel, Bruce (ed). (1968). Librarianship in Canada 1964-1967: essays in honour of Elizabeth Morton. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Peel, Bruce B. (1972). Steamboats on the Saskatchewan. Saskatoon: Prairie Books, The Western Producer.

Peel, Bruce B. (1974). Rossville Mission Press : the invention of the Cree syllabic characters, and the first printing in Rupert's Land . Montreal: Osiris.

Peel, Bruce B. (1974). Early printing in the Red River Settlement 1859-1870 and its effect on the Riel Rebellion. Winnipeg: Peguis Publishers.

Peel, Bruce B. (1979). The University of Alberta Library, 1909-1979.

Peel, Bruce B. (1973). A Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces to 1953, with bibliographical index. 2nd ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Peel, Bruce B. and William J. Kurmey (1983). Cooperation among Ontario university libraries. Toronto: Council of Ontario Universities.

Associations/Committees :

Saskatchewan Library Association, Alberta Library Association, Canadian Library Association
1965, Special Committee on Library Resources for the Health Sciences in Canada.
American Library Association Committee on Accreditation, for four years
Canadian Library Association Microfilming Committee, 1960s to mid 1970s.

Honours :

1975 Marie Tremaine medal of the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
1982 Canadian Library Association's “outstanding service to librarianship” award.
1982 The Bruce Peel Special Collections named in his honour is a world-class collection of rare books with a significant collection of archival materials.

Accomplishments :

1960-1961 President, Alberta Library Association
1965-1966 President, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries.
1969-1970 President, Canadian Library Association
1970-1972 President, Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Société bibliographique du Canada

Other areas of activity :

Teacher in Saskatchewan before becoming a librarian.

Sources :

Jobb, Patricia A. (1987). Biography of a librarian: Bruce Braden Peel. Research project towards MLS. Edmonton, Faculty of Library Science, University of Alberta.
Obit. National Post. Don Mills, Ont., Dec 4, 1998, A.10.
Website biography, Library, University of Alberta. Accessed Sept. 9, 2013.
Merrill DIstad, “A Tribute to Bruce Braden Peel.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 38, no. 2 (2000): 19-25. [PDF accessed Nov. 8, 2023]
Giles, Suzette (2012). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 52 (FALL): 11-12.
The Bruce Peel Special Collections website at the University of Alberta.

Platnick, Phyllis

b. Feb. 21, 1932, Toronto, ON; d. Aug. 28, 2018, Toronto, ON

Education:

1954 BA (University of Toronto)
1966 MLS (Syracuse University)
1986 MA (History) (York University)
1989 Certified Archivist (National Archives of Canada)

Positions:

1956 Circulation Dept., Main Library, University of Toronto
1957 Reference Library and Archives, University of Rochester
1966-1967 Serials Dept., McMaster University Library
1968-1969 College BiblioCentre, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute
1967-1998 York University Libraries (a reference librarian, Head of the Frost Library at Glendon College, and an archivist in the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections)

Publications:

Platnick, Phyllis (1985). Canadian poetry: index to criticisms, 1970-1979 = Poésie canadienne: index de critiques, 1970-1979. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Platnick, Phyllis and Beverly Smith ( 2001).Canadian poetry: index to criticisms = Poésie canadienne: index de critiques: first supplement, 1980-1989. [Sl. : s.n.]
Platnick, Phyllis (2008). “How I became a librarian.“ ELAN 43 (Spring): 6.

Associations/Committees:

Canadian Library Association
Ontario Library Association (member of Professional Development Committee, 1982)
Association of College & Research Libraries
Ex Libris Association (member of ELA Membership and Recruitment Committee, 2005; member of ELA Board of Directors, 2006-2007)
Association of Retired Faculty and Librarians of York University (ARFL)
York University Retirees’ Association (YURA)

Accomplishments:

While at Syracuse University, Phyllis was asked to design an on-line computer program to organize collections, and when she was working at McMaster University Library, she prepared a printed catalogue for the Serials Department. At the College BiblioCentre, her work involved recataloguing a technical college library and integrating it into a centralized system. However, she never gave up on the idea of being an archivist. When she became a Certified Archivist, she became an archivist at York University. She loved the work, and once said “Where else could one get paid to read other people’s mail.”
Her works can be found at the Ontario Jewish Archives.

Sources:

Phyllis Platnick. Obituary. Globe and Mail, Aug. 30 – Sept. 3, 2018. Accessed June 26, 2021.
Platnick, Phyllis (2008). “How I became a librarian.” ELAN 43 (Spring): 6.

Prentice, Drene Dayell

b. Oct. 8, 1946, Regina, SK; d. Feb. 19, 2008, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1971 BA. with music major (University of Regina)
1972 BLS (University of Alberta “Class of 4”)

Positions:

1972-1976 Cataloguing Branch, National Library of Canada
1976-1977 Head, Music Cataloguing Section, National Library of Canada
1977-1978 Head, Canadiana Bibliographical Standardization Section
1978- Chief, Canadiana Editorial Division, National Library of Canada

Coments:

Drene came to Ottawa from the Prairies in 1972 and although she initially intended to return to the west, she never did and rarely returned.

She had eclectic interests and never tired of new personal challenges. She was an accomplished tennis player, classical pianist and competitive swimmer. She loved to ride horseback and also learned to ride a motorcycle. She loved physical activity and used her vacations from her day job to join her neighbours in laying up their hay for the winter. While she had a successful career in librarianship, her lifelong goal was to work in the stables of the R.C.M.P. She fulfilled her dream in a way when she took early retirement and devoted her time to her dogs, her thoroughbred horse, Ivor, his companion, Campbell and their barn mates which included goats, rabbits, ducks and cats.

Drene was a fiercely loyal friend.

Source:

National Library News
ELA biography compiled by Ralph Manning

Redmond, Donald A.

Donald A. Redmond, n.d. Credit Queen Review, 1966

b. July 21, 1906, York County, ON (near Queensville); d., Feb. 21 2004, Guelph, ON

Education:

1942 BSc Mount Allison University
1947 BLS McGill University
1950 MSLS University of Illinois

Positions:

1943–44 chemist in plant research department of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited, Quebec
1945–46 post-graduate work at Mount Allison University
1948–49 librarian of the Canadian Book Centre, Halifax, NS
1949–60 head librarian at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax
1957–58 on a leave of absence, he was a technical library adviser to the Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Colombo Plan (now Sri Lanka)
1959–60 on a leave of absence, he was Director of the Middle East Technical University Library, Ankara, Turkey
1961–65 Science and Engineering Librarian, then Acting Assistant Director of Libraries (Reader Services, 1964-65) University of Kansas
1965–66 Assistant Director of Reader Services, University of Kansas
1966–77 Chief Librarian, Queen’s University, Kingston
1977–87 Principal Librarian, Queen’s University

Publications:

Redmond, Donald A. (1949). “Seven Months to Build a Library [Canadian Book Centre].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 3 (Nov.): 134–35.
Redmond, Donald A. (1950). “Some College Libraries of Canada’s Maritime Provinces: Selected Aspects.” MSLS thesis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 1950.
Redmond, Donald A. (1950). “Five Canadian College Libraries.” College & Research Libraries 11, no. 4 (Oct.): 355–62.
Redmond, Donald A. (1954). “Curriculum and Library in Our Colleges.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Fall): 5–7.
Redmond, Donald A. (1955). “Engineering Students and Their College Libraries.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Fall): 6–8.
Redmond, Donald A. (1960). Report on the Library of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, July 1959–June 1960. [Submitted to UNESCO and Middle East Technical University]
Redmond, Donald A., comp. (1970). B.S.J. 1946–69; A Cumulated Index to the Baker Street Journal Dedicated to the Study of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. New York: Baker Street Irregulars.
Redmond, Donald A. (1971). “What Happened in Hamilton? Or, Don’t Shoot the Piano Player, He’s Playing Our Song.” Canadian Library Journal 28, no. 2 (April): 100–103.
Donald A. Redmond, Michael P. Sinclair, and Elinore Brown (1972). “University Libraries and University Research.” College & Research Libraries, 33, no. 6 (Nov.): 447–53.
Redmond, Donald A., comp. (1973). A Checklist of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library. Toronto: The Library.
Redmond, Donald A. (1974). Library Administration: Some British Practice, Report on a Study Tour, 1973. Kingston, Ont.: [Douglas Library].
Redmond, Donald A. (1975). “Effects of Unionization on Personnel Management,” pp. 370–419. In Unions and the Management of University Libraries; Papers from a Workshop of the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries at the 1974 Canadian Library Association Conference at Winnipeg, Manitoba, ed. by Inglis F. Bell. Ottawa: Canadian Association of College and University Libraries.
Redmond, Donald A. (1975). Canadian Medical School Libraries: Analysis of Statistics, 1974–75. Kingston, Ont.: Douglas Library.
Redmond, Donald A. (1982). Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Sources. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Redmond, Donald A. (1989). The minutes of our Hundred Years: Calvary United Church, 1889–1989. Kingston, Ont.: Calvary United Church.
Redmond, Donald A. (1990). Sherlock Holmes among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America, 1890–1930. New York: Greenwood Press.
Bigelow, S. Tupper (1998). An Irregular Anglo-American Glossary of More or Less Unfamiliar Words, Terms and Phrases in the Sherlock Holmes Saga. 2nd ed. revised and extended by Donald A. Redmond and Peter Calamai. Shelburne, Ont.: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
Redmond, Donald A. (2003). The Index to Canadian Holmes, Volumes 1–25 (1973–2002). Shelburne, Ont: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.

Associations:

Maritime Library Association (now Atlantic Provinces Library Association)
Canadian Library Association
American Library Association

Comments:

Donald Redmond was a important voice in Atlantic Canada libraries during the 1950s as the editor the Maritime Library Association Bulletin for five years after 1952. He later became a notable Sherlock Holmes enthusiast by helping to organize the now famous Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library in the early 1970s. He was a long-time member of the New York Baker Street Irregulars and a noted bibliographer. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he headed Queen's University library for two terms during the introduction of computers and unions. He continued library work as Queen's Principal Librarian until retirement in 1987.

“After retiring at age 65, Don was able to devote time to another lifelong hobby – constructing Meccano toys, such as elaborate Ferris wheels and clocks which he exhibited at toy shows. A lovingly accurate model of a fire engine was displayed in his room at the nursing home where he spent his last months. Another prized model, recalling his Nova Scotia roots, was a life-sized Meccano lobster.” — Chris Redmond, Toronto Globe and Mail, 2015.

Sources:

Canadian Who’s Who, 1990
Chris Redmond, Remembering Donald A. Redmond (2014) [accessed June 2024]
“Lives Lived: Donald A. Redmond, 92,” Toronto Globe and Mail, March 6, 2015.
Biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Ridington, John

John Ridington, n.d. Credit University of British Columbia Library

b. April 18, 1868, West Ham (Essex) England; d. April 20, 1945, Vancouver, BC

Education:

Tredegar Road Wesleyan School, Bow, London, 1883-87, pupil teacher.
New York State Library, Albany, Summer School, 1916.

Positions:

1889-1895 School Teacher at Burdette, Rookhurst, and Foxwarren, Manitoba
1895-1901 Publisher and Editor, Carberry News
1902-1906 Reporter, Winnipeg Free Press
1907 Free Lance journalist
1908-1910 Manager, Real Estate, Wm. Pearson Co. Ltd., Winnipeg
1911-1912 Sales Manager, Canada Western Trust Co., Vancouver
1913-1914 Night school teacher, Vancouver School Board
1914-1915 Cataloguer, University of B.C. Library
1916-1922 Acting Librarian and Cataloguer, U.B.C. Library
1922-1940 University Librarian, U.B.C.
1941-1945 Special editorial writer, Vancouver News Herald.

Publications:

Ridington, John (1903). “The Doukhobor pilgrimage.” Canadian Magazine 20 (Jan.): 211-222.
Ridington, John (1903). “The crusade of the Doukhobors: the story of a modern pilgrimage.” Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly 55, no , 4 (Feb.): 337-349.
Ridington, John (1912). “Fort George and its tributary territory.” B.C. Magazine 10: 755-759.
Ridington, John (1912). “Panama and the Peace River.” Saturday Sunset. Annual B.C. Development Edition: 11-15.
Ridington, John (1917). “The poetry of the War”. Pacific Northwest Library Association Conference Proceedings: 52-90.
Ridington, John (1918). “The university, the university library, and the returned soldier.” Library Journal, 43 (Nov.): 808-886.
Ridington, John (1920). “The challenge of the present days.” PNLA Conference Proceedings: 7-8. Also in: Public Libraries, 25, no. 4, April: 175-178.
Ridington, John (1920). “Library Development in British Columbia.” Public Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 25, no. 4 (April): 214.
Ridington, John (1920). “New needs and new responsibilities.” American Library Association Bulletin, 14, no. 4 (July): 195-203.
Ridington, John (1923). “Artist - Artisan, which?” Public Libraries 28 (Feb.): 55-62.
Ridington, John (1924). “The new place of books In education.” PNLA Conference Proceedings: 18-28.
Ridington, John (1927). “The libraries of British Columbia.” Library Journal 52 (June 15th): 646-650.
Ridington, John (1927). “Address of welcome.” PNLA Conference Proceedings: 43-48.
Ridington, John (1927). “Distribution of Canadian public Documents.” Library Journal 52 (Dec. 1st): 1131-1132.
Ridington, John (1929). “Canada's Poet Laureate: Bliss Carman.” PNLA Proceedings: 70-77.
Ridington, John (1930). “Canadian Library Association.” American Library Association Bulletin 24, no. 9 (Sept.): 394–395.
Ridington, John, Mary J.L. Black and George H. Locke (1933). Libraries in Canada; a study of library conditions and needs. By The Commission of Enquiry … Toronto: Ryerson Press and Chicago, American Library Association.
Ridington, John (1934). “Canada and its libraries.” Library Journal 59 (June 15th): 493-498.
Ridington, John (1934). “Canadian Library Council Proposed.” American Library Association Bulletin 28, no. 9 (Sept.): 638.
Ridington, John (1934). “The Library as insurance.” Ontario Library Review 18(Aug.):123-124.
Ridington, John (1938), chairman. Brief Submitted to the Commission at Its Hearings in Victoria, B.C., March 1938 by the British Columbia Library Association [Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations].

Associations/Committees:

1915 Vancouver Public Library Board
1916-1917 Pacific Northwest Library Association, Second Vice-President
1918-1919 Pacific Northwest Library Association, President
1923-1924 British Columbia Library Association, President
1923-1924 Pacific Northwest Library Association, President
1926 Pacific Northwest Library Association, President
1933 B.C. Provincial Library Commission, Member
1934-1942 B.C. Public Library Commission, Member

Honours:

1935 King George V Silver Jubilee Medal
1940 Belgian Order of the Crown to recognize his contribution to the building of the Bibliothèque Royale Albert I in Brussels

Other Areas of Activity:

1930-1933 Carnegie Corporation. Commission of Enquiry, Chairman
1925-193? Canadian Library Association, President

Comments:

Starting in 1927 Ridington spearheaded an attempt to establish a Canadian Library Association, and was twice elected to its Presidency, even though the Association was never incorporated.

“Known affectionately to thousands of UBC students as 'King John,' and his library as 'King John's Castle,” Mr. RIdiington was responsible during his quarter of a century as chief librarian for building up the UBC Library from a random collection of 700 volumes to an institution with more than 125,000 catalogued books. — Vancouver Sun, April 21, 1945

Sources:

University of British Columbia Archives. Librarian's Office: John Ridington.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1925: CLA launched … In Seattle?” Feliciter, v. 44, no. 5, May 1998, p. 20-25. (Part 1)
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1925: CLA launched … In Seattle?” Feliciter, v. 44, no. 6, June 1998, p. 26-31,34. (Part 2)
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1927: CLA born again … In Toronto?” Feliciter, v. 45, no. 2, 1999, p. 98-105, 122.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1927-30: The muddle years.” [Summary] Feliciter, v. 46, no. 3, 2000, p. 148-149.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1930: The Commissioners' trail.” [Summary] Feliciter, v.47, no 3, 2001, p. 140-141.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1933: The Commission speaks.” [Summary] Feliciter, v. 48, no. 3, 2002, p. 126-128.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1934: CLA redux… almost.” [Summary] Feliciter, v. 49, no. 3, 2003, p. 161-164.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. “1934-46: The long last lap.” [Summary] Feliciter, v. 50, no. 3, 2004, p. 112-115.
Stuart-Stubbs, Basil. John Ridington: The library years. Vancouver, 1998. 20 p. [Unpublished talk delivered to the X-Club, U.B.C.]

Riley, Margaret Louise

Louise Riley, c.1950. Credit Glenbow Archives

b. Nov. 8, 1900, Calgary, AB; d. Aug. 8, 1957, Edmonton, AB

Education:

St. Hilda's High School for Girls, Calgary
1918–1921 attended Royal Victoria College, McGill University
1928 Diploma in Library Science (University of Wisconsin Library School)
1942 MA in Library Science (Columbia University School of Library Science)

Positions:

1930-1948 Children's Librarian, Calgary Public Library
1948-1957 Assistant Librarian, Calgary Public Library

Publications:

Riley, Louise (1936). “Books open world of adventure for younger generation.” Calgary Herald, Sat. 28 March, p.29.
Riley, Louise (1936). “Library game.” Wilson Bulletin for Librarians 10 (10): 662–663.
Riley, Louise (1939). “Calgary’s experiment––a room for junior high school students.” Ontario Library Review 23 (4): 378–380.
Riley, Louise (1939). “Library quiz.” Wilson Library Bulletin 14 (3): 218–219.
Riley, Louise (1942). “Mutual relationships between public libraries and schools in providing library service to boys and girls in Canadian cities.” MA in Library Science. New York: Columbia University, Library School.
Riley, Louise (1942). “School and public library cooperation in Canada.” Ontario Library Review 26 (4): 385–389.
Riley, Louise (1943). “New books for boys and girls.” Ontario Library Review 27 (3): 350–352.
Riley, Louise (1944). “Across the Dominion with the boys and girls.” Wilson Library Bulletin 19 (3): 174–176.
Riley, Louise (1945). “Alexander Calhoun and the Calgary Public Library.” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 1 (5): 58.
Riley, Louise (1946). “Some books which present to boys and girls the background and many aspects of Canadian life.” Canadian Library Council Bulletin 2 (3): 44-46.
Riley, Louise (1948). “Calgary gets another new branch [Hillhurst].” Ontario Library Review 32 (1): 11–13.
Riley, Louise (1949). “Amelia Munson.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 5 (6): 198–199.
Riley, Louise (1950). The mystery horse. Toronto: Copp Clark Co.
Riley, Louise (1951). One happy moment. Toronto: Copp Clark Co.
Riley, Louise (1954). Train for Tiger Lily. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada.
Riley, Louise (1960). Spell at Scoggin's Crossing. London: Abelard-Schuman [posthumous publication]

Associations/Committees:

Member of Canadian Association of Children's Librarians, chair 1943-46
President, Alberta Library Association, 1948-1949
Member of Canadian Library Association, councillor 1946-1950
Member of American Library Association
Member of the Alberta Library Board, chair 1952-1957

Honours:

She received a Carnegie Fellowship for post-graduate work at Columbia University, 1941–42, where she became acquainted with youth service work and the influential teachings of Amelia Munson.
Rain for Tiger Lily received the bronze medal Canadian Library Association Children’s Book of the Year Award in 1956.
The Louise Riley branch in the North Hill Shopping Centre was named in her honour in 1959.
The Canadian Library Association established a $1,000 memorial scholarship in her name; it was first awarded in 1959.

Comments:

Calgary's Library director, William R. Castell, said that “‘Louie’ Riley was known as one of the finest librarians for children’s work in Canada.” Louise Riley was an ardent exponent of reading for children – the best books of course. She wrote many articles highlighting books for youngsters in the Calgary Herald and she broadcast weekly storyhours on radio CFAC-AM. Twice she travelled to Toronto to work with Lillian Smith at Boys and Girls House. In her position on the Alberta Library Board she worked to form regional library systems in her home province. In the later part of her career, she turned to writing books for children. The Riley name was well known in Calgary and the land where a branch in her name rests originally belonged to her family.

Sources:

Giles, Suzette (2016). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 60 (Fall): 9.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Robinson, Edgar Stewart

Edgar S. Robinson, n.d. Credit Vancouver Public Library

b. Nov. 23, 1896, Pickford, Michigan, USA; d. Oct. 24, 1957, Victoria, BC

Education:

1920 BA University of Toronto
1924 BSLS University of Washington

Positions:

1912–15 Page, Calgary Public Library
1921–23 Head of Circulation, Calgary Public Library
1924–57 Director, Vancouver Public Library

Publications:

Robinson, Edgar S. (1925). “Report on Libraries in the Schools of the City of Vancouver.“ In J.H. Putnam and G.M. Weir, Survey of the School System, pp. 545-548. Victoria: King's Printer.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1934). “Suggested Policy for the Collection and Care of Canadian Provincial Documents.” In Public Documents: Their Selection, Distribution, Cataloging, Reproduction and Preservation/Papers Presented at the 1933 Conference of the ALA, ed. by A. F. Kuhlman, pp. 203-205. Chicago: American Library Association.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1934). “Canadian Library Council [Editorial].” Library Journal 59 (15): 656-657.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1935). “On the Pacific Front.” Ontario Library Review 19 (1): 8-10.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1936). “The Work of Public Documents Committee of Canada.” In Public Documents: Papers Presented at the … Conference of the American Library Association [1935], edited by A. F. Kuhlman, 162-166. Chicago: American Library Association.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1947). “Libraries for Today.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 24 (2): 59-60.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1947). “Debtors to our Profession.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 4 (October): 5-6.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1950). “‘Branching Out’ in Vancouver.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6 (5): 201-204.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1950). “New Times New Libraries.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6 (5): 189-190.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1952). “Plans and Progress.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 9 (3): 82.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1954). “The Technique of Photocharging.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 10 (5): 165-168.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1956). “Vancouver Public Library Building and How It Grew.” PNLA Quarterly 21 (Oct.): 17–21.
Robinson, Edgar S. (1957). Training Professional Librarians for Western Canada; Report of the Special Committee on Library Education of the Public Library Commission. Edgar S. Robinson, Chairman; Samuel Rothstein, Secretary. Ed. by British Columbia Public Library Commission Special Committee on Library Education. Victoria, B.C.: British Columbia Library Association.

Associations:

President, British Columbia Library Association, 1926–27 and 1938–39
President, Pacific Northwest Library Association, 1928-29
Chairman, British Columbia Public Library Commission, 1945–36 and 1956–57
President, Canadian Library Association, 1952–53

Accomplishments:

Edgar Robinson was a champion for the concept of the “library in the community” in Vancouver. He was also a prominent regional voice for librarians in western Canada, especially British Columbia. Although his lifelong efforts to open a new central city library only came to fruition shortly after his death, the “Modernist style” four-storey central library on Burrard Street served Vancouver from 1957–1995 and was designated as a heritage site in 1994. Robinson also presided over the development of several neighbourhood branches, notably Collingwood (1951), Dunbar (1950), Kerrisdale (1943), Kitsilano (1927), and South Hill (1949).

Sources:

Curry, Ann and Gary Carre. (1998). “Edgar S. Robinson: Canada’s Longest Serving Public Library Director.” Epilogue : Canadian Bulletin for the History of Books, Libraries, and Archives 13: 117-136.

“In Memoriam Edgar Stewart Robinson, November 22, 1896–October 24, 1957.” (1957). Viewpoint, the Vancouver Public Library Staff Association Newsletter 11 (2): 1-11.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Rothstein, Samuel

Samuel Rothstein, n.d. Credit ALA Bulletin, April 1962

b. Jan. 12, 1921, Shenyahova, a village near Bobrysk in Belarus (part of Russia at the time); d. July 8, 2014, Vancouver. BC

Education:

1939 BA in English and French (University of British Columbia)
1940 MA (University of British Columbia)
1947 BLS (University of California)
1954 PhD in Librarianship (University of Illinois). He was the first Canadian to hold a PhD in librarianship.

Positions:

1942-1945 war service in
Canadian counter-intelligence
1947-1948 Reference Librarian, University of British Columbia
1948-1954 Head of Acquisitions, UBC
1954-1961 Assistant and Associate Librarian, UBC
1961-1970 Acting University Librarian and Founding Director of the School of Librarianship, UBC
1970-1986 Director and Professor of Librarianship, UBC
1986-2014 Professor Emeritus

Selected Publications:

Rothstein, Samuel (1955). The development of reference services through academic traditions, public library practice and special librarianship. Chicago: Association of College and Reference Libraries. Accessed Oct. 21, 2014.
British Columbia Public Library Commission. Special Committee on Library Education (1957). Training professional librarians for Western Canada: report. Victoria: Public Library Commission. [Samuel Rothstein was a member of the Special Committee]
Rothstein, Samuel (1961). “Reference Service: The New Dimension in Librarianship.” College and Research Libraries 22: 11-18.
Rothstein, Samuel (1964). “Measurement and Evaluation of Reference Service.” Library Trends 12 (3}: 456-472.
Rothstein, Samuel (1964). La bibliothèque au service de deux cultures au Canada – the library and the two cultures in Canada: Discours - par Edmund Deroches – avec commentaires – de Samuel Rothestein – Bertha Bassam – Vernon Ross, le 30 novembre 1963 à une reunion générale de L'Assocation des bibliothécaires du Québec, Montreal: Québec Library Association.
Gilroy, Marion and Samuel Rothstein (1970). As we remember it: Interviews with pioneering librarians of British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia School of Librarianship with the co-operation and assistance of the Library Development Commission of British Columbia.
Rothstein, Samuel, Richard Blackwell and Archibald MacLeish (1972). The university … the library. Papers presented at York University on the occasion of the dedication of the Scott Library, 30 October 1971. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press.
Rothstein, Samuel (1972). “From Reaction to Interaction: The Development of the North-American University Library.” Canadian Library Journal 29 (2): 111–115.
Rothstein, Samuel (1977). “Across the Desk: 100 Years of Reference Encounters.” Canadian Library Journal 34 (5): 391-399.
Rothstein, Samuel (1982). “Where Does It Hurt? Identifying the Real Concerns in the Ethics of Reference Service.” The Reference Librarian 4 (summer): 1-12.
Rothstein, Samuel (1983). “The Making of a Reference Librarian.” Library Trends 31 (3): 375-399.
Rothstein, Samuel (1984). “The Hidden Agenda in the Measurement and Evaluation of Reference Service, Or, How to Make a Case for Yourself.” The Reference Librarian 11: 45-52.
Rothstein, Samuel (1985). “Why People Really Hate Library Schools.” Library Journal 110 (6): 42-43.
Katz, William A., Charles A. Bunge and Samuel Rothstein (1989). Rothstein on reference … with some help from friends. New York: Haworth Press.
Rothstein, Samuel (1990). “The development of the concept of reference service in American libraries 1850-1900.” The Reference Librarian 11 (1): 7-31.
Rothstein, Samuel (1990). “The hidden agenda in the measurement of evaluation of reference service, or, How to make a case for yourself.” The Reference Librarian 11 (25): 351-358.
Rothstein, Samuel (1990). “Reference service.” The Reference librarian. 11 (25):161-172.
He also wrote for several encyclopedias, contributed many articles and reviews to professional journals, gave lectures and talks and served on editorial boards of several encyclopedias and journals.

Associations/Committees:

American Association of Library Schools (AALS), President
British Columbia Library Association (BCLA)
Pacific Northwest Library Association (PNLA)
Canadian Association of Library Schools (CALS)
American Library Association (ALA), served as an officer
Canadian Library Association (CLA)
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Councillor, BC Medical Library Service
Canadian Council of Library Schools (CCLS)
1969 Consultant, for Science Secretariat of Canada
1969 Visiting Scholar, University of Hawaii
1970-1977 Consultant for various libraries
1970 Visiting Professor, University of Toronto
1973 Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1979 Librarian-in-Residence, University of Toronto
1981-1982 Research Fellow, University of Toronto Centre for Research in Librarianship
1962-1972 Board Member and President of the Jewish Community Centre
1987-1988 President, Vancouver Public Library Trust
1992-1995 Divisional Chairman, Vancouver Combined Jewish Appeal
1993-1999 Board Member, the Jewish Federation of Vancouver

Honours:

1951-1954 Carnegie Corporation Fellowship
1970 Helen Gordon Stewart Award, British Columbia Library Association
1971 Honorary D.Litt., York University
1986 Canadian Library Association Outstanding Service to Librarianship Award
1988 American Library Association Beta Phi Mu for distinguished service to education in librarianship
1988 ALISE Award for Outstanding Professional Contributions to Library and Information Science Education
1989 Honoured with an entry scholarship for those with promise of success in librarianship
2011 for the 50^th anniversary of SLAIS he was honoured with the Sam Rothstein award for the graduating student who exhibits the innovative spirit that Sam had when opening the school in 1961

Comments:

“Sam founded the Faculty of Librarianship at UBC and he served as its first Director from 1970 to 1986. He was internationally recognized for his pioneering work as a reference librarian and he was a leader in developing the discipline of Library Science internationally over four decades.”

Sources:

Samuel Rothstein Fonds, UBC Library Archives [PDF download]
Biography written for his fonds held in the archives of the UBC Library
Obit., Globe and Mail, July 9, 2014
There are biographies listed in several biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias including: Canadian Who’s Who, Who’s Who in America, ALA Yearbook of Library and Information Services, and Who’s Who in the World

Ryder, Dorothy Edith

b. May 22, 1916, near Hell’s Gate, BC; d. Apr. 6, 2002, Vancouver BC

Education:

BA 1950 (British Columbia); BLS 1951 (McGill)

Positions:

1942-1946 Service in the Armed Forces
1951-1964 Branch Librarian, Calgary Branch, University of Alberta (1961 became University of Calgary)
1964-1966 Deputy Chief Librarian, University of Calgary
1966-1981 Reference Collection Development Specialist, National Library of Canada. Public Service Branch

Selected publications:

Ryder, Dorothy E. (1951). “Bibliography of reference material on Canadian history.” Montreal: McGill University Library School. MS.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1966). The Library, University of Alberta, Calgary, 1957-1965. Scrapbook. (includes: annual reports, financial reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, announcements and miscellaneous papers held at the University of Calgary).
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1973). Canadian reference sources: a selective guide. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1973). “Canadian reference works 1972: a selection.” Canadian Library Journal, 30 (July-August): 346-351.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1974). “Canadian reference works 1973: a selection.” Canadian Library Journal, 31 (August): 367-370, 374.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1975). “Bruce Braden Peel: a preliminary bibliography.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada,v.14, p.14-16.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1975). “Canadian reference works, 1975.” Canadian Library Journal, .32 (August): 295-297.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1975). Canadian reference sources: a selective guide: supplement. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1975). “City directories – Alberta: a preliminary listing.” Library Association of Alberta Bulletin, v.7, p. 130-143.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1976). “The theatre in Canada.” Reviews of A Bibliography of theatre history, 1583-1975 and A Bibliography of English-Language theatre and drama in Canada, 1800-1914. Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, v 15, p.73-75.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1977). “Canadian references [sic] sources 1976: a selection.” Canadian Library Journal, 31 (August): 259-262.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1978). “Canadian reference sources – a ten year overview.” Canadian Library Journal, 35 (August): 289-293.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1978). Canadian reference sources 1977: a selection.``Canadian Library Journal, 35 (August): 283-285.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1978). The Canadian West & the North: a bibliographic overview. Toronto: Published for the Bibliographical Society of Canada.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1978) “State of the art survey of reference sources of Canada.” Reference Services Review, 6 (October): 11-14.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1979). Checklist of Canadian directories, 1790-1950/ Repêrtoire des annuaires canadiens, 1790-1950 .Ottawa: National Library of Canada/Bibliothèque nationale du Canada.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (!979). “Canadian reference sources 1978: a selection.” Canadian Library Journal, 36 (August):197-199.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1979) “William Moore.” Dictionary of Canadian biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 556-557.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1980). “Canadian reference sources 1979: a selection.” Canadian Library Journal, 37 (August): 275-280.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1981). Canadian reference sources: a selective guide. 2^nded. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1981) . “John Bentley” Encyclopedia of music in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p 79.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1983). “The Red River Public Library, June 1822.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada, v.22, p. 36-55.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1985). “Alfred Hawkins.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1851-1860. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, v. 8, p. 384-386.
Ryder, Dorothy E. (1994). “A library grows in Calgary, 1906-1966”. Ex Libris News, no. 15, Spring, p. 23-31.
Pace, Helen, comp. (1974). Indian-Inuit authors: an annotated bibliography=Autheurs indiens et inuit bibliographie annotêe. Compiled by Helen Pace with the assistance of Dorothy Ryder. Edited by Helen Rodgers. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. Information Canada.

Associations/Committees:

Canadian Library Association; Bibliographical Society of Canada; Association for Canadian Theatre Research; Friends of the National Library; Ex Libris Association; University Women`s Club

Accomplishments:

In March 2003, “ELA received a bequest of $5000 from the estate of Dorothy Ryder, a long time member of the association. This is perhaps the largest individual contribution in our history, and forms a significant fund which the board agreed should be used for special purposes rather than general operating expenses. As well, it was agreed that it would be appropriate to use the fund to support a number of projects over a period of time, rather than one large project.” At a subsequent Board meeting, a number of possible specific projects appropriate to Dorothy’s interests were identified, including: a biography project, the web site, the work of the Library Education Committee, Canadian library history research and sponsorship of meetings of ELA outside of the GTA.

Comments:

An early legacy of Dorothy’s professional career was the beginning and development, in the early1950s, of a branch library of the University of Alberta which was to become the University of Calgary. Its library opened with 21,000 volumes and had grown to 180,000 volumes by the time Dorothy had moved to the National Library of Canada in 1966. This legacy is fully described in her article entitled “A library grows in Calgary, 1906-1966, published in Ex Libris News. However she is best known for her work as Reference Collection Development Specialist at the National Library of Canada. Peter Grieg has postulated that “this position might have been created specifically for her, given her abiding interest and ability in research. And the uniqueness of the position is suggested in that it did not exist prior to Dorothy’s incumbency and she was not replaced on her retirement.” Her flair for research and her ability to take large quantities of information and reorganize them into a more useful and manageable reference source naturally led to the compilation of Canadian Reference Sources: a Selective Guide which was published in two editions. Ultimately users popularly named it “`Ryder”. As described by Peter Greig, the value of her contribution to Canadian bibliography is immeasurable as is exemplified in the reviews of her works and in the republication of Canadian Reference Sources. Her interest in bibliographical research stretched beyond her working life into retirement and broadened into other interests such as art, architecture and genealogy. “She maintained her interest in Irish history, Canadian political and social history, and continued her thematic perusal of mysteries. Thematic. in that at one point she was reading only mysteries dealing with art treasures, then it was mysteries written by lawyers, and throughout, mysteries by Canadian authors.”

Sources:

“In Memoriam” Feliciter, no. 4, 2002, p. 200.
University of Toronto Library Catalogue.
Ryder, Dorothy E, “A library grows in Calgary, 1906-1966.” Ex Libris News, Spring 1994, no.15, p. 23-31.
The Dorothy Ryder bequest.” ELAN, no. 34, 2003, p.12.
Greig, Peter E. “Dorothy E Ryder, 22 May 1916-6 April 2002” MS, 8p. unpublished.
“Retirement” National Library News, v. 13, no. 7, July-August 1981, p. 8.

Sanderson, Charles Rupert

Charles R. Sanderson, c. 1929. Credit Toronto Public Library

b. May 19, 1887, Bury England; d. July 24, 1956, Toronto, ON

Education:

1925 BSc (London, 1st class honours)
1940 MA (Toronto)

Positions:

1901-1905 Senior assistant, Bury Public Library, England
1905-1909 Chief assistant, Bolton Public Library, England
1909-1914 Assistant Librarian, John Rylands Library, Manchester
1915-1919 Enlisted in the British army serving in France and North Africa
1914-1929 Librarian, Gladstone Library, London,
1919-1929 Lecturer, School of Librarianship, University of London
1929-1931 Assistant Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1931-1937 Deputy Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1937-1956 Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library

Publications:

Sanderson, C.R. (1925). Library law: a text-book for the professional examinations in library organization. London: J&E Bumpus Ltd.

Sanderson, C. R.(1927). “The library resources of London.” In E.A. Baker, ed., The uses of libraries, pp. 217-38. New York: Wilson.

Sanderson, C.R. (1930). “The extension of library privileges to the rural parts of England and Scotland through the county library system.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association, pp. 9–10.

Sanderson, C.R. (1930). “Two recent branch libraries in Toronto [Runnymede and Danforth].” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 8 (12): 430–437.

Sanderson, C.R. (1930). “A library in a shopping centre [Danforth Branch].” Library Journal 55 (6): 257–259.

Sanderson, C.R. (1930). “Beauty with utility.” Construction: A Journal for the Architectural Engineering and Contracting Interests of Canada 23 (9): 282–288 and 293–296.

Sanderson, C.R. (1936). Social credit. Toronto: McClelland.

Sanderson, C.R. (1936). “Canadian comment on bookish preferences.” Library Review 5 (7): 313–317.

Sanderson, C.R. (1938). “A broadcast by Charles R. Sanderson, Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library, January 5, 1938.” Ontario Library Review 22 (2): 94–96.

Sanderson, C.R. (1941). “World democratic relations [ALA Conference address].” American Library Association Bulletin 35 (7): 414–421.

Sanderson, C.R. (1941). Some notes on Lord Sydenham. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1941.

Sanderson, C.R. (1944). “Libraries in the post war period.” Ontario Library Review 28 (3): 244–251.

Sanderson, C.R. (1950). “Keeping young [Young Canada Book Week].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 7 (1): 8–10.

Sanderson, C.R. (1950). “Tribute and resolve.” Wilson Library Bulletin 24 (10): 737–738.

Sanderson, C.R. (1952) “Well-known librarian retires [Lillian H. Smith].” Ontario Library Review 36 (2): 74.

Sanderson, C.R., ed. (1943-1959). The Arthur papers, 3 vols. Toronto: Toronto Public Libraries and University of Toronto Press.

Associations/Committees:

President, Rotary Club of Toronto 1937
President, Empire Club 1941-1942
Chairman, Canadian Library Council 1941-1943
Member, Ontario Royal Commission on Education 1945-1950
First Chairman, Toronto Civic Historical Committee (now Heritage Toronto), established in 1949

Honours:

1951 LLD, University of Toronto
1955 FLA, Library Association (UK)
1968 Toronto Public Library’s Charles R. Sanderson Memorial Branch opens

Accomplishments:

The first part of Charles Sanderson’s tenure at Toronto Public Library was marked by years of economic depression and wartime stringency. In the postwar period, 1945-56, Sanderson oversaw the advancement of library services by the building of three neighbourhood branches—George H. Locke Memorial Branch, Deer Park Branch, and Parliament Street Branch. TPL also extended its work to elementary schools, hospitals, homes for the aged, and settlement houses. Notably, the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books was donated to TPL in 1949 by Edgar Osborne. Throughout Sanderson’s career he was known to be supportive and generous: Dr. Freda Waldon recounted that “one of the things you could always count on with Sandy was that he would take time to consider any question you brought to him and give you the benefit of his experience.”

Sources:

“Memorial service to the late Dr. Charles R. Sanderson,” in Annual Report of the Toronto Public Library 1956, pp. 49-56.
“Charles R. Sanderson, 1887-1956.” (Aug. 1956). Quill and Quire 22: 9–12.
B. Wilkinson (1956),. “In appreciation: Charles Rupert Sanderson, 1887-1956.” Ontario Library Review 40 (3): 165-166.
“Charles Sanderson, F.L.A.” (1956). Canadian Library Association Bulletin 13 (2): 69.
Giles, Suzette (2013). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 53 (Spring): 11-12.
History of Toronto Public Library Sanderson branch on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2018 [PDF download].

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Saxe, Mary Sollace

Mary Sollace Saxe, n.d. Credit A Jewel in a Park

b. Feb. 23, 1865, St. Albans, Vermont; d. May 27, 1942, Montréal, QC

Education:

Received private education in her youth in Montréal
1899 Trained in library techniques under Charles Gould at McGill University
1929 Took courses in librarianship at the New York Public Library School

Positions:

1899 Training at Redpath Library, McGill University, under Charles Gould
1900-1901 Apprentice with Charles A. Cutter at Forbes Public Library, Smith College
1901-1931 Chief Librarian, Westmount Public Library

Publications:

Saxe, Mary S. (1904). “Westmount Public Library.” Public Libraries; A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods 9, no. 5: 209.

Saxe, Mary S. (1910). “Popularizing the library.” Library Journal 35, no. 8: 363-66.

Saxe, Mary S. (1911). “Classification of books.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 59-64.

Saxe, Mary S. (1912). “With the children in Canada.” Library Journal 37, no. 8: 433-35.

Saxe, Mary S. (1915). “The Canadian library’s opportunities to encourage the reading of Canadian authors.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 48-52.

Saxe, Mary S. (1916). “One hundred years ago - relatively speaking.” American Library Association Bulletin 10, no. 4: 299-301.

Saxe, Mary S. (1917). “What seems to me an important aspect of the work of public libraries at the present time.” Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 35-37.

Saxe, Mary S. (1919). “Books and their classification.” Canadian Bookman 1, no 3 (July): 56-58.

Saxe, Mary S. (1919). Our little Quebec cousin. Boston: L.C. Page.

Saxe, Mary S. (1920). “The Library from the inside, out!” Canadian Bookman 2, no. 2 (April): 16-17.

Saxe, Mary S. (1920). “What is the most important aspect of public library work?” Canadian Bookman 2, no. 4 (Dec.): 90-91.

Saxe, Mary S. Saxe (1927). “Libraries of east Canadian provinces.” Library Journal 52, no. 10: 525-26.

Associations/Committees:

1914 Vice–President Dickens Fellowship Montreal Branch
1918-1923 American Library Association, Council member
1932-? Member, Quebec Library Association

Accomplishments:

In the course of 30 years, Mary Saxe raised the Westmount Public Library, situated in a park setting, to prominence in the province of Quebec. She introduced an open shelf system for users in 1917, opened a separate Children’s Room in 1911 and a Reference Room in 1914. The library was connected with a beautiful conservatory, the Palm Room, in 1926. When she retired, the library had a staff of six assistants and an annual circulation of more than 100,000 books. She wrote a book for children, “Our Little Quebec Cousin,” and contributed columns to the Montreal Gazette. Saxe was active in the cultural life of Montréal through her membership in the Women’s Art Society of Montreal, the Dickens Fellowship, the Canadian Authors Association, the Montreal Art Association, the Business and Professional Women’s Club, and the Canadian Women’s Club. She also wrote a few one-act plays, such as “All is Discovered,” “Just a Tip,” and “Rainbows,” that were performed theatrically.

Comments:

Mary Saxe believed education and training for all library staff was essential, stating in 1920: “But since no chain is stronger than its weakest link, so no library can give a better service all the time to its community than can be given by its poorest assistant. It is a fatal mistake to appoint one head librarian at an inflated salary and feel that any material will do for an assistant. If possible a library should have an all-star cast of assistants.“ — Saxe, “What is the most important aspect of public library work?”

Sources:

George H. Locke (1931). “Retirement of Mary S. Saxe.” Public Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods, 36, no. 6: 256-57.
National reference book on Canadian men and women, 5th ed., 1936.
“Miss Mary S. Saxe, Author, Dies Here.” Montreal Gazette, 28 May 1942: 4.
Elizabeth I. Hanson (1997). A Jewel in a Park: Westmount Public Library, 1897-1918. Montréal: Véhicule Press.
Lajeunesse, Marcel (2020). “Mary Sollace Saxe et la Bibliothèque publique de Westmount.” In Pour une histoire des femmes bibliothécaires au Québec: portraits et parcours de vies professionnelles, pp. 27–41. Montréal: Presses de l’Université du Québec.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Sessions, Vivian S.

b. Dec. 15, 1920; d. Jan 13, 2013, Los Gatos, CA

Education:

BA 1945 University of Michigan
MA 1948 University of Michigan
MS in Library Science 1959 Columbia University

Positions:

Research Assistant, History of Science Dept., Cornell University
New York Public Library
Director, City University of New York’s URBANDOC Project
1969-1976 Director, City University of New York (CUNY) Center for the Advancement of Library and Information Science
1976-1981 Director, Graduate School of Library Science, McGill University
1981- Head Librarian, College of Staten Island (part of CUNY)

Publications:

Sessions, Vivian S. (1963). The city planning and housing library: an experiment in the organization of materials. New York: New York Public Library.

Sessions, Vivian S. (1964). URBANDOC, a report on computerization, documentation and information retrieval, in the literature of urban planning and renewal. New York: s.n.

Sessions, Vivian S. (1971). URBANDOC: a bibliographic information system. New York: CUNY. 3 v.

Sessions, Vivian S. (1974). Directory of data bases in the social and behavioral sciences. New York: Science Associates International.

Comments:

Vivian`s teaching career began at CUNY in a continuing education program “with part-time lecturers, emphasizing online searching and information science. She was the first director for the School from outside McGill. The Dean of Graduate Studies, under whose jurisdiction the School operated, wanted the School to strengthen its information science. Vivian established an online retrieval laboratory with terminals and computers that supported her teaching. Within a few years, however, all but one of the faculty in place at her time of arrival had left, discouraged by the style and content of her leadership. The 1980 accreditation resulted in McGill receiving a two-year conditional accreditation,” and Vivian resigned and returned to New York. “Vivian left an indelible impression on all who knew her.”

Sources:

Peter F. McNally, Professor and Director, History of McGill Project.

Shepard, Martha

Martha Shepard c.1970 Credit National Library News

b. 12 Dec. 1911, Toronto, ON; d. 1 Aug. 2009, Victoria, BC

Education:

BA 1935 (Queen's University)
BLS 1936 (University of Toronto)
Certificate in Microphotography (Columbia University)

Positions:

1936–1938 Cataloguer, Toronto Public Library
1938–1950 Reference Librarian, Toronto Public Library
1950–1971 Director, Canadian Bibliographic Centre and Director of Reference Branch, National Library of Canada

Selected Publications:

Shepard, Martha. (1938). The first things of Toronto; a guide to where accounts of them may be found. Toronto: n.p. [submitted for the degree of BLS].

Shepard, Martha (1943). It’s All a Matter of Reduction [Microfilm]. Ontario Library Review 27, no. 1: 8–14.

Shepard, Martha (1955). A Tour of Canada’s National Library. Food for Thought 5, no. 6: 5–9.

Shepard, Martha. (1959). Union Catalogue of the National Library of Canada. Why? How? And what now? Annals of Library Science 6 (June): 56–59.

Shepard, Martha (1960). Hands across the Border. American Library Association Bulletin 54, no. 4: 275–275.

Shepard, Martha (1962). Reference Division, National Library of Canada. Canadian Library 18, no. 4: 159–161.

Shepard, Martha. (1965). You say you requested? RQ 5 (Winter): 38–40.

Shepard, Martha. (1968). Interlibrary loan developments in Canada. RQ 7 (Spring): 121–125.

Shepard, Martha. (1970). The Union Catalogues in the National Library the present condition. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Shepard, Martha (1971). “Presidential Address.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 26th Annual Conference, Vancouver, B.C., June 19–26, 1971, pp. 1–2. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Associations/Committees:

Bibliographical Society of Canada, President 1966–68
Canadian Library Association, President 1970–71

Accomplishments:

While at the Toronto Public Library, she was an editor of the Canadian Catalogue of Books. From 1946–1971 she was an adviser to the CLA newspaper microfilming project. In 1950: the first librarian hired by W. Kaye Lamb to help establish the National Library of Canada. She was responsible for planning and organizing the Canadian Union Catalogue and visited libraries across the country to microfilm their catalogue cards using a 16 mm camera. This formed the nucleus of what is now the AMICUS database. From 1966-1968, she was President, Bibliographical Society of Canada and in 1970-1971 President, Canadian Library Association. 1971: Upon her retirement, she was described as one of Canada's most distinguished librarians as well as charming and gracious. Her firm, far-seeing leadership and strong sense of professionalism were noted.

Sources

Canadian Library Journal. News & notes. 29 (3), May-June 1972
Local librarian is CLA President. Ottawa Citizen, June 18, 1970.
Martha Shepard plans retirement Quill & Quire 37 (9) July 23, 1971.
National Library News, October-December 1971.
Victoria Times-Colonist. Obituary. August 13, 2009.

Silverthorn, Mary Elizabeth

b. Aug. 5, 1902, Calgary, AB; d. May 3, 2001, Toronto, ON

Education:

1925 BA (University of Alberta)
1928 BS in LS (University of Illinois Library School)
1937 AM in Library Science (University of Illinois Library School)

Positions:

1925-1927 Library Assistant, Calgary Public Library
1928-1935 Reference Librarian, Saginaw Public Library, Saginaw, Michigan
1937-1938 Assistant Professor, Carnegie Library School, Pittsburgh
1938–1949 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1949–1961 Associate Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1961–1969 Professor, University of Toronto Library School
1969 Professor Emerita

Publications:

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1932). “Standards in selecting fiction.” Michigan Library Bulletin, 23: 5-7

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1936) . “Reference service from the viewpoint of a reference librarian.” Library Journal, 61 (April 15): 309-312.

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1937). “The public library registration card as a source of reader information.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (thesis, unpublished).

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1940). “Books for the school library.” The School (secondary edition): 28 (May): 767-771.

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1943). “War and post-war issues as they affect librarians.” Ontario Library Review, 27 (Aug.): 322-328.

Silverthorn Mary E. (1945). “Supplementary reading.“ The School, Nov. 213-216; Dec. 323-326

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1947). “Book selection aids for Canadian school libraries.” Canadian Library Association. Bulletin, 4 (Dec.): 36-38.

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1948). “Magazines for high school libraries.” Ontario Library Review, 32 (Aug.): 246-250.

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1959). “Out-of-print Canadian books.” Feliciter, 5 (Dec.): 16-22.

Silverthorn, Mary E. (1963). “Secondary school libraries in Ontario.” Ontario Library Review, 47 (Nov): 157-160.

Canadian Library Association. Committee on Out-of-Print Canadian Books.

Reprint Expediting Service, 8, Fall 1963, p. 2-4.

Associations/Committees:

Ontario Library Association; Council member 1951-1958; President, 1956-57
Canadian Association of University Teachers
Canadian Library Association; 1957- Chair, Out-of-Print Books Committee
American Library Association
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario (IPLO)
University of Toronto Library School Representative to Council of the School of Graduate Studies
University of Toronto, Administrative Committee for Division I (Humanities)
Association of American Library Schools
Ontario Library Association, Circulating Libraries Section
Editor, Canadian books: a selection of old books for young people’s libraries
Officer, Association for Library and Information Science Education (1959–1963)
Ontario Library Association, Recruitment Committee (1960)
Chairman, Ontario Library Association, Constitution Committee (1961)
Chairman, Canadian Library Association Committee on Canadian Books (1968)
Chairman, School of Library Science, Curriculum Committee (1969)
Senate, University of Toronto, elected representative (1964-1968)

Honours:

1935, Recipient of Katherine L. Sharp Scholarship, University of Illinois Library School
Beta Phi Mu

Other Areas of Activity:

Professor Silverthorn and Professor Barnstead advocated for the establishment of a course on school librarianship, anticipating possible demand for such specialized training for librarians. As a result, the Ontario Department of Education began to offer an elective course, “School Librarianship,” in 1940. In addition, Professor Silverthorn was in attendance during the Proceedings of the Organization Conference of the Canadian Library Association, held in Hamilton, Ontario, June 14–16, 1946. She acted as a recorder for workshop no. 7, “Young People's Interests” (a report on library services for teenagers). Professors Barnstead and Bassam were also present at the conference.

Comments:

Professor Silverthorn taught numerous library school courses over her distinguished academic career: Book Selection, Literature for Young People, School Libraries: Administration, Readers' Services, School Libraries, Organization of Non-Book Materials, Library Collections, Library Collections in Special Fields, Public Library Collections, Contact with Readers and Advisory Services, Social Science Literature, and many more.

Sources:

“Appendix A: Association for Library and Information Science Education / Association of American Library Schools, 1915–1990, Officers and Meetings.” Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, vol. 32, nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter, 1991), 162–177.

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.

“Canadian Library Directory, 1968: Sections.” Canadian Library vol. 24, no. 4 (January 1968), 365.

“Katherine L. Sharp Scholarship.” College and Research Libraries v. 4, no. 1 (December 1942), 59.

Land, R. Brian. “Toronto The University of Toronto Faculty of Library Science.” In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, ed. Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Jay E. Daily, William Z. Nasri, v. 30, 472–492. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1980.

“Members.” ALA Bulletin vol. 41 no. 13 (December 1947), H-103–H-444.

“Ontario Library Association: Summary of Proceedings—58th Annual Conference.” Ontario Library Review v. 14, no. 3 (August 1960), 182.

University of Toronto School of Library Science. Calendar 1965/1966. Toronto: University of Toronto, 1965.

ELA biography compiled by Agatha Barc

Sinclair, David Paul

b.1942, Toronto, ON; d. June 12, 1974, Toronto, ON

Education:

1965 BA (University of Toronto)
1966 MA (University of Toronto)
1968 BLS (University of Toronto School of Library Science

Positions:

1964–1966 Library Assistant, Victoria University Library
1966–1967 Museum Assistant, Victoria and Albert Museum
1968–1974 Rare Books and Special Collections Librarian, Victoria University Library
1966–1974 Bibliographical Fellow, Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies.
1972–1974 Lecturer, Victoria College, Department of English, University of Toronto

Publications:

Sinclair, D. (1968). “Individual items of interest in the Forbes Collection.” Renaissance and Reformation 5 (1): 14–24.

Sinclair, D. (1969). “The Forbes Collection—collecting habits and the personal library.” Renaissance and Reformation 5 (2): 13–16.

Sinclair, D. (1970). “The Tennyson Collection in Victoria College Library.” Victorian Studies Association Newsletter 6: 12–14.

Sinclair, D. (1970). “Marjorie Pickthall: Mary tired.” Canadian Notes and Queries 6: 11.

Sinclair, D. (1970). “William Kirby and the production of the U.E.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 9: 30–35.

Sinclair, D. (1972). Nineteenth-century narrative poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart.

Sinclair, D. (1971). ‘Winifred Cotter’ and Helena Coleman.” Canadian Notes and Queries 7: 11–12.

Sinclair, D. (1973). “The first pirated edition of Tennyson’s poems.” The Book Collector 22 (2): 177–188.

Sinclair, D., & Warkentin, G. (eds.). (1976). The new world journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1845. Toronto: Dundurn Press.

Associations/Committees:

Bibliographical Society of Canada

Honours:

Scholarship, 1961–1965
Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire Scholarship, 1967–1968
David Sinclair Memorial Fund, 1974 (established by Lorna Fraser, Victoria University Library Chief Librarian)

Other Areas of Activity:

Sinclair’s research interests included the bibliography of Sir Philip Sidney, late nineteenth-century English poetry, and Canadian poetry and fiction, in particular, the poetry and fiction of the nineteenth century.

Comments:

Sinclair’s comparatively short but accomplished career in academic librarianship and bibliography exemplified the increasing importance of subject specialization of librarians to the institutional prestige of university libraries.

Sinclair’s graduate thesis, Metamorphosis and Mimesis in Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, was supervised by William Blissett and completed in 1966.

Sinclair was the first Bibliographical Fellow of the newly established Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, and was appointed to the position by its founder, David Hoeniger. At the time of his death, he was a Ph.D. student in bibliography at the University of London, completing a dissertation under the supervision of Arthur Brown.

His mother, Dorothy Sinclair, donated his papers to Victoria University Library in 1974.

Sources:

Victoria University Library. David Sinclair (Fonds 38) . Accessed Jan. 8, 2017.
Warkentin, G. (1976). “David Sinclair, 1942–1974.” In: The new world journal of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1845, edited by D. Sinclair and G. Warkentin. pp. 114– 117. Toronto: Dundurn Press.

ELA biography compiled by Agatha Barc

Smith, Lillian Helena

Lillian Helena Smith, c.1920s. Credit Toronto Public Library

b. Mar. 17, 1887, London, ON; d. Jan. 5, 1983, Toronto, ON

Education:

1910 BA (Victoria University, Toronto)
1910-1911 certificate (Carnegie Training School for Children’s Librarians, Pittsburgh)
1931 BS in LS (Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh)

Positions:

1911-1912 Children’s librarian and branch head, New York Public Library
1912-1952 Head of children’s services, Toronto Public Library

Publications:

Smith, Lillian H. (1913). “Boys and girls and the public library.“ Proceedings of the Ontario Library Association Annual Meeting: 67-70.

Smith, Lillian H. (1917). “The children's librarian.” Acta Victoriana 42, 2: 63-65.
Smith, Lillian H. (1917). “A list of books for boys and girls.” Ontario Library Review 2, no.1: 11-33.
Smith, Lillian H. (1923). “The problems of children’s librarians.” Library Journal 48, 17, 1 October.: 805-806.
Smith, Lillian H., ed. (1927). Books for boys and girls. Toronto: Toronto Public Library.
Smith, Lillian H. (1932). “The teaching of children’s literature.” In: American Library Association Children’s Library Yearbook, vol. 4: 73-80.
Smith, Lillian H., ed. (1932). Books for boys and girls, June 1927 to June 1932, a supplement. Toronto: Toronto Public Library
Smith, Lillian H. (1939).”The library’s responsibility to the child.” In: The library of tomorrow: a symposium, ed. Emily M. Danton. Chicago: American Library Association. p. 124-132.
Smith, Lillian H., ed. (1940). Books for boys and girls. 2nd ed. Toronto: Ryerson Press.
Smith, Lillian H. and Annie Wright (1941). “Canada: a reading guide for children and young people.” Ontario Library Review 25, 1 August: 293-300.
Smith, Lillian H. (1947). “The children’s library.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 24, 2 February: 56-58.
Smith, Lillian H. (1953). The unreluctant years: a critical approach to children’s literature. Chicago: American Library Association.
Smith, Lillian H. (1959). “What books mean to children.” American Library Association Bulletin 53, 4 April: 289-91.
Smith, Lillian H. (1963). “News from Narnia.” Horn Book Magazine 39, October: 470-73.

Associations/Committees:

1928-1929 President, Ontario Library Association
1932-1936 Member of Executive Board, American Library Association

Honours:

Clarence Day Award, American Library Association, in 1962 for outstanding work in encouraging the love of books and reading.

Toronto Public Library established the Lillian H. Smith Collection in 1962 as a tribute to her years of work at Boys and Girls House.
The Lillian H. Smith branch of Toronto Public Library opened on 16 October 1995 in honour of the first academically trained children’s librarian in the British Empire.

Accomplishments:

Lillian Smith became the first Canadian children’s librarian with academic credentials when she began her career at Toronto Public Library in 1912. By the time of her retirement, TPL was providing book services at Boys and Girls House, 16 library branches, 2 settlement houses, 30 school libraries, and two hospitals. The quality of services at Boys and Girls House so much impressed Edgar Osborne, a British librarian and collector, that he donated 1800 children’s books to TPL in 1949, the nucleus of today’s outstanding collections at the Lillian H. Smith branch on College Street. Smith made valuable contributions to the American and Ontario library associations in children’s and youth services and was instrumental in forming the Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians in 1939.

“The Unreluctant Years,” published in 1953, distills Smith’s ideas about library book selection and its potential to edify and stimulate children. Her book remains a classic statement for the rationale to apply critical standards of literary value in book selection for young readers and for her insistence on the provision and employment of ‘best books’ by children’s librarians. Smith also edited valuable editions of TPL’s “Books for Boys and Girls.”

Storytelling and programming were another vital aspect of library work that Smith and her devoted staff actively promoted. A ‘Book Week’ for boys and girls became a regular feature before Christmas at TPL well before a national Young Canada Book Week was established in 1949. As well, from the end of WWII to the 1950s, librarians at Boys and Girls House collaborated with the CBC in a series of radio programs for children. Services for non-English speaking children were provided through Toronto settlement houses. Boys and Girls House was always noted for its experimental approaches and offerings of drama, folk dancing, puppet shows, and clubs—features that are often taken for granted in the 21st-century library.

Comments:

“Miss Lillian H. Smith long envisioned a nation-wide association for the advancement of children’ s reading in Canada and, at a joint conference of the Ontario and Quebec Library Associations, held in Montreal in the year 1939, she took action to make such an organization a ‘fait accompli.’” – Ruth Milne, “C.A.C.L. Tribute,” 1952.

“Every parent in Toronto should be grateful to Miss Smith.” – Charles Sanderson, Chief Librarian, Toronto Public Library, 1953.

“She loves and understands children; knows how they think and what interest them. Among her associates, she has had the faculty of inspiring loyalty and transmitting enthusiasm—gifts which do much to explain her success.” – Toronto Globe and Mail editorial, 1952.

Sources:

Lillian H. Smith website developed by Michael Manchester. Accessed November 15, 2025.

Fasick, Adele. M., Margaret Johnston and Ruth Osler, eds. (1990). Lands of pleasure: essays on Lillian H. Smith and the development of children’s libraries. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press.

Canadian Association of Children’s Librarians (1952). Lillian H. Smith: A tribute from the C.A.C.L., June 10, 1952. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

McGrath, Leslie A. (2005). Service to children in the Toronto Public Library; a case study, 1912-1949. University of Toronto Ph.D. dissertation.

Sydell Waxman (2002). Believing in books: the story of Lillian H. Smith. Toronto: Napoleon Publishing. [biography for children]

Giles, Suzette (2013). “Libraries named after librarians.” ELAN no. 54 (Fall): 7-8.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Snell, John u0022Jacku0022 Douglas

b. Apr. 12, 1913, Watrous, SK.; d. Nov. 28, 2010, Guelph, ON

Education:

1933 BA, University of Saskatchewan
Bachelor of Education
1947 BLS, McGill University

Positions:

Teacher, Schools of Rural Saskatchewan
Officer, Royal Canadian Air Force
Librarian, London Public Library
1947-1950, Librarian, Welland County Library Co-operative
1950-1977, Chief Librarian, Guelph Public Library

Publications:

Snell, John (1966). “First Steps to Building a Library”, Ontario Library Review 50, 2 (June): 61-62.

Associations:

Ontario Library Association, President, 1958/1959
Institute of Professional Librarians, Board of Directors, 1960
Ex Libris Association, 1986-2010
Canadian Library Association
Guelph Historical Society, Charter Member
Guelph Little Theatre, life member
Guelph Rotary Club
Guelph Field Naturalists
Presto Music Club

Honours:

Recognized at the 100th Anniversary of the OLA in 2001.

Comments:

In the war “he was conflicted during this time in London due to the atrocities of war but at the same time he reveled in the cultural activities that were second to none. He attended the ballet, theatre and the symphony and wrote of them often in his journals. He saw among others Lawrence Olivier in Richard III and John Gielgud in Hamlet.”

John was Chief Librarian of the Guelph Public Library in “a period that saw the old Carnegie library torn down and a new one built in its place, and the very function of the library changed from being a place simply to borrow books to becoming the cultural hub of the city. … Under Snell’s watch, the library was rebuilt, expanded, automated, and a wide variety of multicultural selections were added to its collections to better reflect the changing city.”

Sources:

Guelph Mercury, Dec. 2, 2010
Family tribute.

Spicer, Erik John

Erik John Spicer, n.d. Credit Parliamentary Library

b. Apr. 9, 1926, Ottawa; d. Sept. 27, 2014, Ottawa

Education:

BA 1948 Victoria College, University of Toronto
BLS 1949 University of Toronto Library School
MALS 1959 University of Michigan Department of Library Science

Positions:

1949–1950 Librarian, University of Victoria Library, University of Toronto
1950–1952 Circulation and Reference Librarian, Ottawa Public Library
1953–1954 Librarian, University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor
1954–1959 Deputy Librarian, Ottawa Public Library
1960–1994 Parliamentary Librarian of Canada [The first professional librarian in the position]
1994–2014 Parliamentary Librarian Emeritus and Honorary Officer of the House of Commons and the Senate

Publications:

Spicer, Erik J. (1955). Library Co-Operation in Canada: College and University Libraries and Public Libraries. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Spicer, Erik J. (1958). “Canadian Libraries and Problems of Staff Recruitment.” Library Review 16, no. 8: 531–36.

[Spicer, Erik J.] (1958). “Demand for Librarians, 1957–1966.” Feliciter 3, no. 6 (Feb.): 7–15.[CLA Recruitment Survey Committee]

Spicer, Erik J. (1958). “Emigrants Wanted, the Demand for Librarians in Canada.” Assistant Librarian 51, no. 9: 184.

Spicer, Erik J. (1959). “The Graphic Publishers Limited, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1924–1932: Special Research for the Department of Library Science, University of Michigan.” AMLS thesis, University of Michigan Department of Library Science.

Spicer, Erik J. (1959). Trade Unions in Libraries: The Experience in the United States. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. [CLA Occasional Paper, no. 23]

Spicer, Erik J. (1964). “Report to the CLA-ACB on [the] Need for Professional Librarians, 1962–1967.” Canadian Library 17, no. 4: 158–165.

Spicer, Erik J. (1966). “Graduate Work for Advanced Degrees and Needed Canadian Library Schools [speech excerpts].” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 21st Annual Conference, Calgary, June 19–25, 1966, pp. 32–33. Ottawa: The Association.

Spicer, Erik J. (1969). “The Case against a Two-Year First Degree Course for Librarians in Canada: A Personal View.” Canadian Library Journal 26, no. 4: 292–294.

Spicer, Erik J. (1970). “The Library of Parliament.” Ontario Library Review 54, no. 2: 74–79.

Spicer, Erik J. (1971). “Letter to the Editor.” IPLO Quarterly 12, no. 3: 91–95.

Spicer, Erik J. (1982). “International Library Information. The Canadian Role.” Canadian Library Journal 39, no. 4: 219–223.

Honours:

1962 Canadian Forces’ Decoration
1979 Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Michigan
1989 Distinguished Graduate Medal, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
1994 Member, Order of Canada

Accomplishments:

Did wartime service with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, 1944–1945
Longest continuing serving Parliamentary official with the rank of Deputy Minister.
Served under eight Prime Ministers and reported to twelve Speakers of the Senate and ten Speakers of the House of Commons.
Library Association of Ottawa, president 1955–1956
Canadian Library Association, life member, president 1979–1980
Ontario Library Association, life member, president 1962–1963
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario, president 1959–1960
Member of the Governor General’s Foot Guards. Retired in 1962 with the rank of Major
Member, ex-officio, National Library Advisory Board, 1970–1994

Comments:

“He often said that he had the best job in the world. Indeed, it provided him the opportunity to lead, build, teach – and serve his country – and he enthusiastically embraced the challenges put before him (including determinedly learning French). Eric also saw himself as the chief custodian and advocate of the beautiful and iconic Library of Parliament building itself. He loved it deeply and reveled in showing it off to visitors – from school children to royalty and heads of state – and telling the story of its history, most post particularly how it was saved from the great fire of 1916. For 34 years he happily occupied one of the finest government offices in Ottawa with a panoramic view of the Ottawa River, Gatineau, Quebec and the hills beyond; and with an entrance leading from the Gothic splendour of the main reading room beyond.“

Sources:

Erik Spicer was the youngest Parliamentary Librarian of Canada, Globe and Mail, October 26, 2014, [accessed April 14, 2024]
Ottawa Citizen,10/04/2014, Obituary Accessed June 25, 2015
Engles, Ernie. “Tribute to Erik Spicer.” Feliciter 60, no. 6 (December 2014): 38.

St. John, Judith G.

b. Aug. 14, 1914, Bolton, ON; d. Oct 17, 2007, Toronto, ONb. Apr. 9, 1926, Ottawa; d. Sept. 27, 2014, Ottawa

Education:

1934 Diploma in Librarianship, University of Toronto

Positions:

1934-1952 Children’s Librarian, Earlscourt and St. Clement’s Branches, Toronto Public Library
1952-1955 Part-time curatorial care of the Osborne Collection
1955-1979 Head, Osborne Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library
1968-1973 Visiting Lecturer and Associated Instructor, Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto

Publications:

St. John, Judith (1958). The Osborne collection of early children’s books [1476]-1910.: a catalogue. Prepared at Boys and Girls House by Judith St. John with an introduction by Edgar Osborne. Toronto: Toronto Public Library and the University of Toronto Press.

St. John, Judith. (1974). Where the saints have trod. Illustrated by Robin Jacques. London: Oxford University Press.

St. John, Judith. (1975). The Osborne collection of early children’s books 1566-1910. Prepared at Boys and Girls House by Judith St. John, with an introduction by Edgar Osborne. Rev. ed. Toronto: Toronto Public Library and the University of Toronto Press.

Accomplishments/Committees:

1960 Canada Council Fellowship (to study early publishing in Britain)
1965 An international colloquium of children’s book collectors and curators was held at the Osborne Collection. Edgar Osborne was honoured with an LLD by the University of Toronto. The colloquium was a resounding success and inspired the founding of the Friends of the Osborne and Lillian H. Smith Collections in 1966 – the oldest library Friends group in Canada.
Judith organized the John Masefield Storytelling Festivals held in 1961, 1966 and 1972.

Comments:

From The Times, Thursday, December 13, 2007

“Judith St. John was called upon to undertake a very special duty: stewardship of the Osborne collection at the Toronto Public Library. In 1934 Edgar Osborne, the county librarian of Derbyshire, visited Toronto, where he was deeply impressed by the services to children by the library there – advanced beyond anything on offer in Britain. Fifteen years later, seeking a worthy home for his own large collection of early children’s books, he offered the whole array to Toronto. In its it turn, the library agreed to house the collection as an individual unit and to augment it. It is one of the most outstanding collections of English children’s books in the world. The library also agreed to prepare and publish a catalogue of the donation and in 1952 called upon one of its children’s librarians, Judith St. John, to undertake the work, initially as a part-time duty. It was a tough assignment, a venture into barely charted territory. But “Miss St. John”, as she was always known, brought to it not only a calm temperament and an affection for the books, but also a tenacious spirit in ascertaining the often obscure facts about their writing and publication. On its appearance in 1958 The Osborne Catalogue was immediately recognized as an important, as well as a very handsome, contribution to the bibliography of the subject. In 1975 she extended the catalogue with a substantial volume, the fruit of much liaison with librarians and scholars across the globe. A friendship developed with the British Poet Laureate, John Masefield, himself a writer for children. Through this friendship Toronto’s storytelling festival was established in is name.”

The publication of Judith’s obituary in The Times and SundayTimes is a distinction achieved by few, if any other Canadian librarians. It honours her work and devotion to the collection.

Sources:

McGrath, Leslie Anne (2005). Service to children in the Toronto Public Library: a case study. Toronto: Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. PhD thesis.
McGrath, Leslie. “Judith St John, 1914-2007“ [a brochure]. Available from Boy’s and Girl’s House, Toronto Public Library.
Obituary, The Globe and Mail, Nov.14, 2007. [Accessed June 1, 2023].
Obituary. The Sunday Times, December 13, 2007.

Stewart, Helen Gordon

Helen Gordon Stewart, n.d. Credit As We Remember It

b. Dec. 19, 1879, Fletcher (Chatham-Kent) ON; d. April 5, 1971, Vancouver, BC

Education:

????-1908 Teacher training (Central Normal School, Winnipeg, Manitoba)
1908-1909 Library training diploma (New York Public Library School)
1926 BSc (Teachers College, Columbia University)
1927 AM (Columbia University, Social Science)
1928 PhD (Columbia University, Social Science)

Positions:

????-1908 School teacher in Carman, Manitoba
1909-1910 Children’s librarian, New York Public Library
1911-1912 Assistant Librarian, Victoria Public Library
1912-1924 Chief Librarian, Victoria Public Library
1916-1917 Medical war service in London, England, and France
1927-1928 Acting Head, Department of Sociology, Wells College, New York
1930-1934 Director for the Carnegie sponsored Fraser Valley Regional Library Demonstration
1934-1936 Director for the Carnegie British Columbia Public Library extension program
1936-1938 Acting Associate Director and Professor, Graduate School of Library Science, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
1939 Consultant, South Carolina large county and unit development
1940-1948 Director, Trinidad and Tobago Central Library Service and regional library development for the British West Indies

Publications:

Stewart, Helen G. (1911). “Cooperation among the libraries of the northwest.” In Proceedings of the third annual conference of the Pacific Northwest Library Association, Victoria, British Columbia, September 4, 5, and 6, p. 61–64. Seattle, Wash.: Dearborn Press.

Stewart, Helen G. (1920). “Regional and county libraries.” Public Libraries 25 (10): 387–388. [synopsis]

Stewart, Helen G. (1927). Adult education and the library. MA thesis, New York: Columbia University. Social Science.

Stewart, Helen Gordon (1934). “A dramatic moment?” Library Journal 59 (1 April): 306–307.

Stewart, Helen G. (1934). “Advantages and difficulties in the administration of a regional library unit.” American Library Association Bulletin 28 (9): 604–608.

Stewart, Helen G. (1934). “Fraser Valley demonstration.” American Library Association Bulletin 28 (9): 637–638.

Stewart, Helen G. 1934). “Fraser Valley library.” Ontario Library Review 18 (4): 146–149.

Stewart, Helen Gordon (1934). “Social trends.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 28 (9): 484–489.

Stewart, Helen G. (1936). “British Columbia and tax-supported regional units.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 30 (8): 692–694. [abridged address]

Stewart, Helen Gordon (1936). “Uniting a rural region.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 30 (8): 748–750.

Stewart, Helen G. (1936). “Vote for regional libraries.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 30 (3): 194.

Stewart, Helen G. (1936). “Regional libraries in British Columbia.” Library Journal 61 (20): 876–878.

Stewart, Helen G. (1936). “Schools and the regional library.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 30 (10): 927–934.

Stewart, Helen Gordon (1936). “What regionalism means.” In Papers and proceedings of the Southwestern Library Association, eighth biennial meeting, October 21, 22, 23, 24, 1936, Houston, Texas, p. 59–65. Houston, Texas: [The Association].

Stewart, Helen Gordon (1937). “Regional library development.” In Library trends; papers presented before the Library Institute at the University of Chicago, August 3-15, 1936, ed. by Louis R. Wilson, p. 87–104. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Stewart, Helen G. (1940). “Regions in perspective.” American Library Association Bulletin 34 (2): 95–96, 147–148.

Stewart Helen G. (1949). “The regional library of the eastern Caribbean.” Pacific Northwest Library Quarterly 14 (1): 27–30.

Associations/Committees:

1917-1919 and 1932 President, British Columbia Library Association
1919-1922 Member, British Columbia Public Library Commission
1920-1921 President, Pacific Northwest Library Association

Accomplishments:

When she was approaching the age of ninety, Helen Gordon Stewart was asked about using a power mower to cut her lawn. “I supply the power,” she responded, a statement that sums up her entire career. She was a dynamic factor in British Columbia for three decades: the 1919 Public Libraries Act, the formation of the Public Library Commission, as well as regional and union library systems were very much the results of her hard work. She was the second woman to hold the presidency of a library association in Canada, being nominated in September 1917, only a few months after Mary Black in Ontario. In the late 1920s, she furthered her education by working her way through university while acquiring a doctorate at Columbia. Subsequently, the Carnegie Corporation (New York) and British Columbia Public Library Commission selected her to head a successful project in the Fraser Valley region. After she ‘retired’ to Saanich near Victoria at the outset of the Second World War, she was enticed by the Carnegie Corporation to repeat her earlier regional successes in the Caribbean islands of the British West Indies. Because most of her work was completed by the end of the Second World War, she is truly recognized as a pioneer in Canadian librarianship.

Honours:

1954 Honourary member of Pacific Northwest Library Association
1963 Honourary member of the Canadian Library Association
The British Columbia Library Association adjudicates the Helen Gordon Stewart Award. This award recognizes an outstanding career in librarianship involving achievements that brings honour to the entire profession. It also confers Honourary Life Membership in the BCLA.

Comments:

Howard Overend summarized Dr. Gordon’s career by stating: “Her work was a seminal force in the ruralisation of public library service in Canada and abroad, showing that a large tax-supported unit of service (a single purpose authority) was the most effective way to serve the library needs of people in several autonomous communities at the lowest cost.” — Howard Overend, Book Guy: A Librarian in the Peace (2001)

Sources:

Morrison, Charles Keith. (1950). “Helen Gordon Stewart, library pioneer.” Food for Thought 9 (6): 11–16 and 20.
“B.C. Woman pioneered libraries in many lands.” Toronto Globe and Mail, April 9, 1960: 10.
Gilroy, Marion and Sam Rothstein, eds. (1970). As we remember it; Interviews with pioneering librarians of British Columbia, p. 16–48. Vancouver: University of British Columbia School of Librarianship.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil

Basil Stuart-Stubbs, c.1950s. Credit UBC Archives

b.Feb. 3, 1930, Moncton, NB; d. May 29 2012, Vancouver, BC

Education:

1952 BA (Hons.Phil) (British Columbia); 1954 BLS (McGill)

Positions:

1954-1956 Reference Librarian, McGill University Library
1956-1964 Librarian in Cataloguing, Serials and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library
1964-1981 University Librarian, University of British Columbia
1981-1992 Professor and Director, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia
1992-2012 Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia

Selected publications:

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil (1968). Maps relating to Alexander Mackenzie: a keepsake for the Bibliographic Society of Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Library.

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil (1973). Developments in library and union catalogues and the use of microform in British libraries. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil (1976) . A survey and interpretation of the literature of interlibrary loan. With K. Nichol, D. McInnes and M. Friesen. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Stuart-Stubbs, Basil (1979). The northpart of America. With Coolie Verner. Toronto: Academic Press.

Associations/Committees:

1971 UBC Press Board, Founding member. Chair
1978 Canadian Institute for Historical Reproduction s, founding member.
1986-1988 Canadian Institute for Historical Reproductions, founding member and third president
1987 Simon Fraser University. Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, board member
2004 Bibliographical Society of Canada, Chair of Publications Committee
Alcuin Society, founding member
British Columbia Arts Board
Canada Council
Canadian Literature, participant in the establishment; first Circulation Manager
National Library of Canada. Advisory Board
National Research Council, Board on Scientific and Technical Information, Member
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Honours:

2006 Order of Canada
1967 Canada Medal
1984 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1987 Canadian Association of College and University libraries, Miles Blackwell Medal, Outstanding Academic Librarian Award (first award)
1992 British Columbia Library Association. Helen Gordon Stuart Award
2004 Association of Book of BC, Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award
2012 Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal
British Columbia Library Association, Helen Gordon Stewart Award
British Columbia Library Association, Honorary Life Membership
American Library Association, Honorary Life Membership

Comments:

“…he presided over UBC Library during a period of extensive growth but he was not a mere administrator; he was a scholar, a lover of history and a gentleman … in short, a librarian’s librarian …”

Citation on the receipt of the Order of Canada:
“Basil Stuart-Stubbs displayed vision and boundless energy in his work on behalf of Canadian librarians, book publishers and authors. As the University Librarian at UBC for many years, he established and guided UBC Press and organized the first Conference on Western Regional Publishing in 1972. He was one of the early proponents of public lending rights legislation to compensate writers for the use of their works in public libraries. More recently, he has served as a founding director of Simon Fraser University’s Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing.”

Sources:

Basil Frederik Stuart-Stubbs biography at HLWIKI Canada. Accessed Feb. 15, 2016.
Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book on British Columbia biography at BC Book Awards site. Accessed Sept. 9, 2013.
Globe and Mail, June 25, 2012. “He made books and writers a priority.”
University of Toronto Library catalogue.

Sylvestre, Guy

Guy Sylvestre, 1946. Credit Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

b. May 17, 1918, Sorel, QC; d. Sept. 26, 2010, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1939 BA University of Ottawa
1940 LPh University of Ottawa
1941 MA University of Ottawa

Positions:

1942–1944 Translator, Department of the Secretary of State
1944–1945 Editor, Wartime Information Board
1945–1947 Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Justice
1943–1947 Literary Critic for Le Droit and Translator for the House of Commons
1947–1950 Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. Louis St-Laurent, as Secretary of State for External Affairs (1947–48) and as Prime Minister (1948–50)
1950–1953 Administration Officer, Dept. Of Resources & Development
1953–1956 Assistant Parliamentary Librarian, Library of Parliament
1956–1968 Associate Parliamentary Librarian, Library of Parliament
1968–1983 National Librarian of Canada

Selected Publications:

Guy Sylvestre contributed over 150 articles to library journals and popular and literary magazines, including Cahiers, Canada français, Culture, Dalhousie Review, Gants du ciel, Notre Temps, Nouvelle revue canadienne, Queen’s Quarterly, Revue dominicaine, Saturday Night, Top of the News and University of Toronto Quarterly. As well, he authored books, contributed to many literary monographs, and published many conference addresses.

Monographs:

Sylvestre, Guy. Anthologie de la poésie canadienne d’expression française, précédée d’une introduction. [s.l.]: Valiquette, 1942 (5 editions to 1966); 6e éd.: Beauchemin, 1971, and 7e éd., 1974.

Sylvestre, Guy. Guidelines for National Libraries. Paris: Unesco, 1987 (also published in French, Spanish, Arabic and Japanese editions).

Sylvestre, Guy. Panorama des lettres canadienne-françaises. Québec: Ministère des affaires culturelles, 1964 (English translation published in 1967 as Literature in French Canada)

Sylvestre, Guy. La poésie française au Canada: Guide du lecteur. [S.l.]: Services éducatifs de la Légion canadienne, 1944.

Sylvestre, Guy. Poètes catholiques de la France contemporaine. Paris: Éditions Fides, 1943.

Sylvestre, Guy. Situation de la poésie canadienne: Regards et jeux dans l’espace, axe axe et parallaxes. [s.l.]: Editions du droit, 1941.

Sylvestre, Guy. Sondages. Montréal: Beauchemin, 1945.

Under pseudonym Jean Bruneau: Amours, délices et orgues. Québec: Institut littéraire du Québec, 1953.

Under pseudonym Blaise Orlier: Louis Francoeur, journaliste. [S.l.]: Editions du droit, 1941.

As editor or compiler:

Sylvestre, Guy and George Stanley (1961). Canadian universities today: symposium presented to the Royal Society of Canada in 1960. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Sylvestre, Guy, Brandon Conron and Carl F. Klinck (1964). Canadian writers/Écrivains canadiens: a biographical dictionary. Toronto: Ryerson Press [rev. ed. 1966].

Sylvestre, Guy and H. Gordon Green (1967). A Century of Canadian Literature. Toronto: Ryerson Press.

Sylvestre, Guy (1960). James P. Manion, a Canadian errant: Twenty-five years in the Canadian Foreign Service. Toronto: Ryerson Press.

Sylvestre, Guy (1966). Structures sociales du Canada français: études de membre de la Section I de la Société royale du Canada. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.

As contributor:

Sylvestre, Guy, “François-Xavier Garneau” (1959). In Our living tradition, ed. by R.L. McDougall. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Sylvestre, Guy, “La recherche en littérature canadienne-française” (1968). In La recherche au Canada français, ed. by Louis Baudoin. Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1968.

Sylvestre, Guy, “Le romain” and “La poésie” [with Jeanne d’Arc Lortie] (1970). In Visages de la civilisation au Canada français, ed. by Leopold Lamontagne. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

He was also a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Canadiana, Encyclopédie Grolier, Funk & Wagnall’s and Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature.

Library articles:

Sylvestre, Guy (1969). “A co-operative acquisition plan for Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 26, no. 6: 433–438.

Sylvestre, Guy (1969). “The National Library of Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 26, no. 1: 25–31.

Sylvestre, Guy (1971). “The prime mover: the role of the National Library.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 25th annual conference, Hamilton, Ontario, June 20–25, 1970, pp. 12–21. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Sylvestre, Guy (1972). “The developing National Library network of Canada.” Library Resources & Technical Services 16, no. 1: 48–60.

Sylvestre, Guy (1973). “Towards standardization of catalogues in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 30, no. 3: 252–259.

Sylvestre, Guy (1974). “The National Library of Canada.” In Library services cross borders: Minutes of the eighty-fourth meeting, May 9-10, 1974, pp. 3–13. Washington: Association of Research Libraries.

Sylvestre, Guy (1977). “La Bibliothèque Nationale du Canada.” In Livre, bibliothèque et culture Québécoise: Mélanges offerts à Edmond Desrochers, s.j., vol. 2., pp. 611–620. Montréal: ASTED Inc.

Sylvestre, Guy (1980). “National Library report: what It Is—what It Is not.” Canadian Library Journal 37, no. 3: 137–140.

Sylvestre, Guy (1981). “A national preservation program for library materials in Canada.” Libri: International Library Review 31, no 3: 185-192.

Sylvestre, Guy (1985). “Canadians, UNESCO and IFLA.” Canadian Library Journal 42, no 4: 219-220.

Associations/Committees:

Académie canadienne-française (président, 1960–1962) [now the Académie des lettres du Québec]
Alliance française d’Ottawa (président, 1960–1962)
Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française
Canada Council (chairman of Committee on aid to publication,1960–1968)
Canadian Association for Information Science (president,1970)
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (president, 1983–1986)
Canadian Library Association
Canadian Writers Foundation (president, 1960–1961)
Cercle universitaire
Conference of Directors of National Libraries (chair, 1974–1978)
Governor General’s Literary Awards (chairman, 1960–1962)
International Federation of Library Associations, National Libraries Section (chair, 1977–1981)
Library Association of Ottawa
Royal Society of Canada (president, 1973–1974)
Société des écrivains canadiens
UNESCO Intergovernmental Council for General Information Program, representative (1979–1983)
World Poetry Conference Expo ‘67 (chairman)

Honours:

1974 Poland’s Order of Merit
1982 Order of Canada
1983 Outstanding Public Service Award
1985 IFLA Medal
1969 DLS University of Ottawa
1970 DLitt Mount Allison University
1974 LLD University of Toronto
1975 LLD University of Prince Edward Island
1982 LLD Memorial University
1984 LLD Concordia University

Accomplishments:

Guy Sylvestre was a major figure in Canadian literature particularly for bridging the gap between French and English Canada with a number of important publications. He was a literary critic for Le Droit in Ottawa from 1940 to 1949, the founder and editor of Gants du ciel and Nouvelle canadienne 1951-1956. A senior civil servant in the federal government, he worked for Louis St. Laurent in several capacities when St. Laurent was Minister of Justice, then Minister for External Affairs and lastly Prime Minister. He spent fifteen years at the Library of Parliament as Assistant Parliamentary Librarian, Associate Parliamentary Librarian and Acting Parliamentary Librarian until being named as Canada’s second National Librarian in 1968.

During Dr. Sylvestre’s term of office as National Librarian, the National Library Act was substantially revised. Under his leadership, there was a dramatic growth in the collections, programs, and services of the National Library, enabled by substantial increases in resources. In addition to building up the Library’s Canadiana, official publications and reference collections and services, he oversaw the establishment of specialized collections and services in music, library documentation, children’s literature, multilingual publications, literary manuscripts, handicapped persons and rare books (including the Jacob M. Lowy Collection of Hebraica and Judaica). The Canadian Book Exchange Centre was established. In partnership with CISTI a library system, DOBIS, was put in place and made accessible nationally. Major exhibitions, public programming and a major publications program became the norm. Core services such as legal deposit and national bibliographic and resource sharing services were strengthened. Library standards were put in place and a national decentralized network of libraries buttressed. The Canadian library community was involved through committees and task forces of librarians from across the country on groups ranging from the National Library Advisory Board to the Task Group on Cataloguing Standards, on matters such as MARC, cataloguing and other library standards, services to the handicapped, resource sharing and the Canadian Union Catalogue, and bibliographic services and most significantly on the future direction of the National Library with consultations around the project, The Future of the National Library. Guy Sylvestre played a strong role in the international library community, establishing the Conference of Directors of National Libraries and supporting and contributing to many international initiatives, such as ISDS, ISBN, and CONSER.Papers.

He was editor of Le Droit from 1940–1948; of Gants du ciel, 1943–1956; and Nouvelle revue canadienne, 1951–1956. He lectured at the University of Ottawa after 1954.

Sources:

The Fonds Guy Sylvestre is held by Library and Archives Canada.
McCormick, Paul. “National Librarian Guy Sylvestre, 1918–2010.” Feliciter 56, no. 6 (2010): 237–238.
Patterson, Kelly. “Guy Sylvestre 1918-2010: ‘he was a leading light’,” Ottawa Citizen, November 21, 2010, p. B5.
The National Library of Canada and Canadian libraries: essays in honour of Guy Sylvestre. Montréal: ASTED, 1996.
Caya, Marcel (1996). “Le Fonds Guy-Sylvestre” in National Library of Canada and Canadian libraries: essays in honour of Guy Sylvestre, edited by Jean-Rémi Brault, Gwynneth Evans, and Richard Paré, pp. 165–171. Montréal: ASTED; and Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Godbout, Patricia (2004). “Guy Sylvestre, philosophe des lettres canadiennes.” In Traduction littéraire et sociabilité interculturelles au Canada, pp. 13–66. Ottawa, Presses de l’université d’Ottawa.
Wyczynski, Paul. “Joseph Jean Guy Sylvestre” Canadian Encyclopedia

Talman, James John

James J. Talman graduate portrait, c.1925. Credit Occidentalia yearbook

b. Sept. 15, 1904, Beira, Mozambique; d. Nov. 21, 1993, London, ON

Education:

1925 BA (University of Western Ontario)
1927 MA (University of Western Ontario)
1930 PhD (University of Toronto)
1960 DLitt (Hons) (University of Waterloo)
1972 LLD (Hons) (University of Western Ontario)

Positions:

1931-1934 Assistant Archivist, Ontario Provincial Archives
1934-1939 Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1934-1939) and Legislative Librarian of Ontario (1935-1939)
1939-1947 Assistant and Associate Librarian, University of Western Ontario
1947-1970 Chief Librarian of the University of Western Ontario
Professor in the History Department and the Faculty of Graduate Studies in post-retirement, University of Western Ontario

Publications (selected):

J.J. Talman authored more than 300 publications. A comprehensive list was compiled by Hilary Bates, “Bibliography of academic and journalistic writings by James J. Talman” in Aspects of nineteenth-century Ontario: essays presented to James J. Talman, ed. by Frederick H. Armstrong, Hugh A. Stevenson, and J. Donald Wilson: 334-50. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974.

Talman, J.J. and Elsie McLeod Murray, eds. (1943). Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada, by Anna Brownell Jameson. Toronto: Nelson.

Talman, J.J., ed. (1946). Loyalist narratives from Upper Canada. Toronto: Champlain Society.

Talman, J.J. and Ruth Davis Talman (1953). ‘Western,’ 1878-1953, being the history of the origins and development of the University of Western Ontario during its first seventy-five years London: University of Western Ontario.

Talman, J.J. (1963). Huron College, 1863-1963. London: Huron College.

Talman, J.J., ed. (1959). Basic documents in Canadian history. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand.

Talman, James J. (1968). “Twenty-two years of the Microfilm Newspaper Project.” Canadian Library 25.2 (September-October): 140–48.

Associations/Committees:

1939-1940, President, Ontario Historical Society
1945-1946, President, Ontario Library Association
1954-1955, President, Canadian Historical Association
1956-1959, Treasurer, Canadian Library Association
1956-1959, Chairman, Governor General’s Award Board
Member of the Canadian Historic Sites and Monuments Board and Ontario Conservation Review Board

Honours:

1949 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1963 Honorary Fellow of Huron College
1968 Cruikshank Medal, Ontario Historical Society
1970 Order of the British Empire
1977 Award of Merit, Alumni Association, University of Western Ontario
1991 James J. Talman Award established by the Ontario Association of Archivists (now Archives Association of Ontario)

Accomplishments:

James J. Talman was an outstanding scholar-librarian whose career began during the Great Depression. It was, he said, a time when there were more positions for librarians than historians. Dr. Talman was a successful Canadian university library administrator in the postwar period. During his 23-year tenure, 1947-70, the Lawson library was expanded twice, new libraries were opened for law (1961), business (1962), health sciences (1965), education (the ‘flying-saucer library’ at Althouse College, 1966), and the natural sciences (1966). In the same period, the University’s holdings grew from 172,000 volumes to 1,500,000 and the library budget from $40,000 to $3,200,000. Dr. Talman was instrumental in expanding Western’s Regional Collection housing the history of southwest Ontario, and it was later named in his honour. Construction of the D. B. Weldon Library (opened in 1972) was planned and underway before his retirement in 1970.

Sources:

“James John Talman, 1904-1993.” In Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, 2000, 6^th Series, vol. 11: 153-156. Ottawa: Royal Society, 2001.
“James John Talman, 1904-1993.” Ontario History 86.1 (March 1994): 1-8.
Stevenson, Hugh A. (1974). “James John Talman: historian and librarian.” In Aspects of nineteenth-century Ontario, ed. by Armstrong, Stevenson, and Wilson: 3-18. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Banks, Margaret A. (1989). The libraries at Western 1970 to 1987 with summaries of their earlier history and a 1988 postscript. London: University of Western Ontario.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Tanghe, Raymond

Raymond Tanghe, c.1952. Credit Lectures revue mensuelle de bibliographie critique

b. June 6, 1898, Tourcoing, France; d. Aug. 6, 1969 Montréal, QC

Education:

Collège du Sacré-Coeur, Tourcoing, France
1924 Licence de Sciences Politiques, Université de Montréal
1928 PhD (Economics) Université de Montréal

Positions:

1940 Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Université de Montréal
1942–1953 Conservateur de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Montréal
1953–1963 Assistant National Librarian, National Library of Canada
1963–1968 Director of La Maison canadienne, Paris

Publications:

Tanghe, Raymond (1928). Géographie humaine de Montréal. Montréal: Librairie de l'Action canadienne-française.

Tanghe, Raymond (1928). La canalisation du Saint-Laurent. Montréal: (Extrait de la Revue trimestrielle canadienne).

Tanghe, Raymond (1932). Au pays de l'énergie. Trois-Rivières: Éditions du Bien public.

Tanghe, Raymond (1935). Le crédit au Canada. Montréal: Société des sciences morales et politiques.

Tanghe, Raymond (1936). Le conflit italo-éthiopien. Montréal: Éditions Albert Lévesque.

Tanghe, Raymond (1936). Montréal. Montréal: Éditions Albert Lévesque.

Tanghe, Raymond (1943). Initiation à la géographie humaine. (Collection Radio-Collège no 2) Montréal, Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1944). “La Bibliothèque de l'Université.” In Université de Montréal; Gala universitaire. Montréal, Université de Montréal, pp. 19-25.

Tanghe, Raymond (1944) Le Canada dans l'ordre international: tribune d'information sur les problèmes de l'après-guerre/dirigée par Raymond Tanghe, émissions faites sur le réseau français de la Société Radio Canada. Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1944). Géographie économique du Canada. (Collection Radio-Collège no 4). Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1945). Itinéraire canadien. Montréal: Éditions B.-D. Simpson.

Tanghe, Raymond (1947). Esquisse américaine. Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1947). Géographie économique du Canada (2e edition) (Bibliothèque economique et sociale 6). Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1952). Pour un système coherent de bibliothèques au Canada français. Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1953). “Nouvelles de la Bibliothèque nationale” dans Association canadienne des Bibliothécaires de Langue française, 9e Congrès Annuel, Montréal, 10-12 octobre 1953. Montréal, pp. 215-218.

Tanghe, Raymond (1956). “Nouvelles de la Bibliothèque nationale.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 12 (6): 231.

Tanghe, Raymond (1959). “Lorne Pierce, Fondateur de la Société bibliographique du Canada” in Bibliographical Society of Canada Newsletter 3 (3): 2.

Tanghe, Raymon. (1960). Laurier, artisan de l'unité canadienne 1841-1919. (Figures canadiennes 4) .Tours: Mame.

Tanghe, Raymond (19–). Laurier, artisan de l'unité canadienne 1841-1919. [Longueuil: Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille]

Tanghe, Raymond (1960). Bibliographie de bibliographies canadiennes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the Bibliographical Society of Canada. The first Supplement was published with the bilingual title, Bibliography of Canadian Bibliographies / Bibliographie de bibliographies canadiennes, in the Bibliographical Society of Canada Newsletter 4 (3) 1961: 1–7. The Supplement for 1960 and 1961 was published by the Society in Toronto in 1962 under the same bilingual title. The Supplements for 1962 and 1963 and those of 1964 and 1965 were prepared by Madeleine Pellerin still under Tanghe's name and also published as standalone publications by the Society in 1964 and 1966 respectively.

Tanghe, Raymond (1962). Le bibliothécariat. (Bibliothèque économique et sociale). Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (19–). Le bibliothécariat. [Longueuil: Institut Nazareth et Louis-Braille]

Tanghe, Raymond (1962) L'École de bibliothécaires de l'Université de Montréal. 1937-1962. Montréal: Fides.

Tanghe, Raymond (1962). “Sources primordiales en bibliographie” in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada I. Toronto: Bibliographical Society of Canada, pp 49-56.

Conchon, Georges (1966). Le Canada. Commentaires des photographies par Raymond Tanghe. Paris: Editions Arthaud.

Tanghe, Raymond (1967). Laurier, architect of Canadian unity (translated by Hugh Bingham Myers). Montreal: Harvest House.

Tanghe, Raymond (19–). Laurier, architect of Canadian unity (translated by Hugh Bingham Myers). [Vancouver, B.C.: CNIB, n.d.] [Braille]

Conchon, Georges (1969). Canada: Reflections and impressions of a visitor, translated from the French by Patrick Evans with notes on the illustrations by Raymond Tanghe. London: Kaye & Ward, 1969. Also published in Canada by Queenswood House (Toronto) and in the United States by A.S. Barnes (South Brunswick, N.J.).

Tanghe, Raymond (1980). Laurier, architect of Canadian unity (sound recording translated by Hugh Bingham Myers). [Vancouver, B.C.: Crane Library].

Associations/Committees:

Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française, member, President 1948–1952
Association of Graduates of the School of Social, Economic and Political Science, Université de Montréal, President
Bibliographical Society of Canada / Société bibliographique du Canada, member, President 1958-60
Canadian Library Association / Association canadienne des bibliothèques, member. Served as chair of the Research Section, 1955–1956
Quebec Library Association, member

Honours

1929 Prix David and Prix d'Action intellectuelle for Géographie humaine de Montréal
1936 Officier d'Academie (France)
1963 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada/Société Royale du Canada
1969 Honorary member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada

Accomplishments:

“Chargé d'organiser la nouvelle Bibliothèque centrale de l'Université de Montréal, située au Pavillon central et qui ouvre ses portes en 1945, Raymond Tanghe la dirige jusqu'en 1953. En tant qu'auteur, en plus de ses travaux bibliographiques, Raymond Tanghe nous lègue une œuvre importante constituée d'ouvrages portant entre autres sur la bibliothéconomie, l'histoire, la politique, ainsi que la géographie humaine et économique du Canada et des États-Unis.

En 1953, Raymond Tanghe est nommé Bibliothécaire national adjoint de la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada (BNC). Les dix années qu'il y passe lui permettent de participer à l'élaboration de la bibliographie nationale rétrospective et de la Bibliographie des bibliographies canadiennes. Sur le plan associatif, il devient le premier président laïc de l'Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française. En quittant la BNC, il retourne en France pour diriger la Maison des étudiants canadiens à Paris où les résidents ont la chance de bénéficier de sa culture étendue et de son imposante expérience professionnelle. De plus, Raymond Tanghe ne s'est pas consacré seulement à l'écrit car il s'est fait entendre et voir dans des émissions autant à la radio qu'à la télévision.” http://www.125.umontreal.ca/Pionniers/Tanghe.html

Other areas of activity:

1920–1939 Bookseller, publisher's agent for French publishers

1935 Founding member of the Société des sciences morales et politiques

1942–1949 Made presentations on Radio-Canada's Radio-Collège, an educational program in place from 1941 to 1956. Dr. Tanghe made presentations in the 1942-43 season in a series entitled L'homme et la géographie sur les relations de l'homme avec son milieu géographique, La géographie économique du Canada in the 1943-44 season and Itinéraire canadien, a series of 25 broadcasts of 15 minutes duration lasting from October 18, 1944 to April 25, 1945 (both became books). The same title was used for broadcasts in 1945-46. In 1948-49, he broadcast a series entitled Théories économiques et réalisations sociales du XIXe siècle. In the winter of 1943-44, the Radio-Canada program called “Opinions” dealt with the problems anticipated after the Second World War, a series of discussions moderated by Raymond Tanghe. The text of these programs was published in 1944 under the title Le Canada dans l'ordre international.

Sources:

Lesperance, Odette (1943). Bibliographie de M. Raymond Tanghe précédée de notes biographiques. Montréal: Université de Montréal.

Beaudoin, Yolande (1947). Notes bio-bibliographiques sur monsieur Raymond Tanghe. Montréal: Université de Montréal.

“Bibliothécaires nommés à Ottawa,” in La Patrie, December 23, 1952.

Lebel, Maurice “Raymond Tanghe 1898-1969” in Biographical Sketches of Deceased Fellows/Notices nécrologiques ds membres décédés of Délibérations de la Société royale du Canada, Série IV, tome VIII, 1970.

“Raymond Tanghe 1898-1969.” National Library News/Nouvelles de la Bibliothèque nationale, vol 1 no 3, July-September 1969, p. 2.

Sylvestre, Guy. “Raymond Tanghe (1898-1969).” Association canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française Bulletin, vol. 15, no 4, décembre 1969, pp. 172–173.

University of Montreal biography for 125th anniversary. Accessed July 13, 2010.

Martel, Marie D., “Raymond Tanghe,” hosted by the Café des savoirs libres. Accessed December 17, 2021.

ELA biography compiled by Paul McCormick.

Todd, Alpheus

b. 30 July 1881, London, England; d. 22 January 1884, Ottawa, ON

Positions:

1835-1836 Librarian, House of Assembly of Upper Canada
1836-1841 Assistant Librarian, House of Assembly of Upper Canada
1841-1856 Assistant Librarian, Legislative Assembly
1856-1867 Chief Librarian, Legislative Assembly
1867-1884 Librarian of the Dominion Parliamentary Library

Publications:

Todd, A. (1840). The Practice and privileges of the two Houses of Parliament. Toronto: Rogers and Thompson.

Todd, A. (1866). Brief suggestions in regard to the formation of local governments for Upper and Lower Canada. Ottawa: G.E. Desbarats.

Todd, A. (1866). Quelques considérations sur la formation des gouvernements locaux du Haut-Canada et du Bas-Canada. Ottawa: Hunter.

Todd, A. (1866). Brief considerations in regard to the formation of local governments for Upper and Lower Canada. Ottawa: G.E. Desbarats.

Todd, A. (1867-69). On parliamentary government in England: its origin, development, and practical operation. London: Longmans, Green.

Todd, A. (1878). On the position of a constitutional governor under responsible government. Ottawa: sn.

Todd, A. (1880). Parliamentary government in the British colonies. Boston: Little, Brown.

Todd, A. (1882). On the establishment of free public libraries in Canada.” Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada 1 (1, sec. 2): 13–16.

Honours:

1881, Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George

Accomplishments:

In 1856, on a buying trip to Europe, he purchased or acquired by gift 17,000 volumes for the Assembly's library, which had been destroyed in two fires.
1873, Special Advisor to the Governor General Lord Dufferin.
His book: On parliamentary government in England (1867-69) was translated into French, German, Spanish and Italian.

Other areas of activity:

Was a noted authority on the operation of the British parliament.

Sources:

Todd, Alpheus, in Dictionary of Canadian biography. Accessed September 7, 2013.
Obituary, Globe, 23 January 1884

Travis, Mary Eileen

b. March 16, 1931, New Glasgow, NS; d. December 21, 2005, Rothsay, NB

Positions:

B.A. (St Francis Xavier University)
BLS (McGill University)

Positions:

1960-1969 Head, Children's Department, Saint John Regional Library
1969-1997 Head, Saint John Regional Library

Associations/Committees:

Atlantic Provinces Library Association; Canadian Library Association; 1972, National Library Advisory Board

Honours:

2004 Member, Order of Canada
1972 Saint John Woman of the Year
1972 Honorary Doctor of Laws, St. Thomas University
1977 Recipient, Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal
1982 Merit Award, Atlantic Provinces Library Association
1988 Honorary Doctorate of Social Sciences, UniversitÃ© de Moncton
1993 Paul Harris Fellow for Rotary International
1996 YMCA Red Triangle Award
2003 Recipient, Queen's Jubilee Award
2004 Chairman's Award, Saint John Board of Trade

Accomplishments:

1967-1969 President, Atlantic Provinces Library Association
1983 First Woman President, Saint John Board of Trade
1985 Vice-President of Ceremonies, Canada Summer Games

Other areas of activity:

1981 Patron, Hestia House
1985 Vice-President, Canada Summer Games
2000-2001 President, Opera New Brunswick
Hammond River Angling Association
Board of Governors, St. Francis Xavier University
Member, Saint John Board of Education
Member, Saint John Board of TradeMember, N.B. Productivity and Research Council
Member, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
Board of Directors, Saint John Arts Council.

Sources:

Saint John Board of Trade-Board News, November 8, 2004
Mary Eileen Travis Accessed July 25, 2013.

Tremaine, Marie

Marie Tremaine. Credit Bulletin of Bibliography 1949

b. Feb. 23, 1902, Buffalo, New York; d. Aug. 2, 1984, Washington, District of Columbia

Education:

Humberside Collegiate, Toronto
1926 BA (Hons) University of Toronto
1926 Certificate, Ontario Department of Education Library School
1929–1930 Carnegie Foundation, the first Canadian Fellowship to study bibliographic methods at the University of London, School of Librarianship
1935–1937 Carnegie Fellowship for Bibliographic Studies on Canadian Imprints, Yale University

Positions:

1927–1941 Reference Division librarian, Toronto Public Library
1941–1947 Associate Head, Reference Division, Toronto Public Library
1947–1969 Director, Arctic Institute of North America,
1969–1975 Editor Emerita, Arctic Institute of North America

Publications:

Tremaine, Marie (193?). Handlist of Erasmiana in the Bell Collection of Victoria College [typescript].

Tremaine, Marie (1930). “Librarianship in London.” Ontario Library Review 14, no. 4 (May): 111–113.

Tremaine, Marie (1931). “Canadian Pseudonyms.” Wilson Bulletin for Librarians 6, no. 1 (September): 52–53.

Tremaine, Marie (1934). Early Printing in Canada. Toronto: Golden Dog Press.

Tremaine, Marie and Francis Maria Staton (1934). A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada. Toronto: Toronto Public Library.

Tremaine, Marie, ed. (1940). Canadian Book of Printing: How Printing Came to Canada and the Story of the Graphic Arts, Told Mainly in Pictures. Toronto: Toronto Public Libraries.

Tremaine, Marie. “Can You Tell Me? Please.” (1944). Bulletin of the Toronto Chapter, Special Libraries Association 4, no. 2 (April): 3–4.

Tremaine, Marie (1946). “Canadian-American Relations in Colonial Printing.” College & Research Libraries 7, no. 1 (January): 27–33.

Marie Tremaine (1951). “A half-century of Canadian life and print, 1751–1800,” pp. 371–390 in Essays Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth. Portland, Oregon, Anthoensen Press.

Tremaine, Marie (1952). A Bibliography of Canadian Imprints, 1751–1800. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Tremaine, Marie, editor (1953-1975). Arctic Bibliography vols. 1-14.

Associations/Committees:

Member: Arctic Circle, Arctic Institute of North America
Founding member of Bibliographic Society of Canada and honorary president, 1965
Memberhips in CLA, OLA, SLA, BSA, American Geographical Society

Honours:

1947 She became an honorary member of CLA
1970 The Marie Tremaine Medal was established by the Bibliographical Society of Canada and she was the first recipient
1973 Honorary member, Arctic Institute of North America
1976 D.Litt, Trent University. Peterborough, Ontario

Comments:

Marie Tremaine's work on the Canadian Bibliography is considered to be an essential landmark in the field.

“Marie Tremaine often says that she is not a historian, and certainly not a scientist! Perhaps not; but through the examination of early Canadian and American imprints she has a knowledge of detail concerning the settlement of North America, that a historian might well envy, and a sense of the living history behind the people of this continent that gives her, as a librarian a creative approach to a community.” — Florence B. Murray, 1949

“Her influence on me has been considerable, her work continues to be of immeasurable help. She set the highest standards in Canadian bibliographical scholarship, standards we must labour to meet and maintain.” — Douglas G. Lochhead, 1984

Sources:

Florence B. Murray, “Marie Tremaine,” Bulletin of Bibliography 19, no. 10 (Sept.–Dec. 1949): 253–255.
Canadian Who`s Who (1983)
“Marie Tremaine, 1902–1984: A Tribute,” Papers of The Bibliographical Society of Canada 23 (1) 1984: 13–29 [tributes by various authors]

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Vespry, Horace Arthur

b. 1931, Trinidad; d. Feb. 27, 2008, Hamilton, ON

Education:

St. Mary’s College, Port-of-Spain
1957 BA University of Ottawa
1958 BLS McGill University
1979 MLS University of Western Ontario

Positions:

1958-62 Librarian with Department of Agriculture Library, Ottawa and Vancouver
1962 University of Toronto Library (briefly)
1962-64 Librarian, Atomic Energy of Canada, Deep River, ON
1964-65 Librarian, Science Library, McMaster University
1965-1968 Brock University, St Catharines, ON (Chief Librarian)
1968-1970 Chief Librarian, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
1970-1975 Librarian, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa,
1975-1979 IDRC Program Officer for information development, working mainly in Southeast Asia out of the Singapore office
1979-1982 Vienna. Overseer of a merger of the IAEA and United Nations libraries into the Vienna International Centre Library
1982-1983 UNESCO consultancy, in Manila
1983-1993 Chief Librarian, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok

Publications:

Vespry, Arthur (1964). Library manual: cataloguing, interlibrary loans, ordering. Chalk River, ON: Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

Comments:

Arthur was particularly interested in “technical information in the service of development” and while in Bangkok offered short training courses for technical information officers in the region. After his retirement in 1993, he continued to work as a consultant. Following his wife Marianne's retirement from her United Nations work, the Vesprys returned to Canada.

Sources:

Who's Who in Library Service. A biographical directory of professional librarians in the United States and Canada. 4th ed. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1966.

Waldon, Freda Farrell

Freda Farrell Waldon, c.1947. Credit Hamilton Public Library

b. Aug. 29, 1898, Winnipeg, MB; d. Nov. 16, 1973, Hamilton, ON

Education:

Central Public School, Hamilton and Hamilton Collegiate Institute
1919 BA (University of Toronto)
1931 MA in English (Columbia University)
1931 Diploma, School of Librarianship, University of London

Positions:

1926–1927 Librarian, Circulation Department, Hamilton Public Library
1927–1940 Head, Cataloguing Department, Hamilton Public Library
1940–1963 Chief Librarian, Hamilton Public Library

Publications and other writings:

Waldon, Freda F. (1931). Alexander Henry, Esq., of Montreal: fur trader, adventurer and man of letters. New York: Columbia University. (Masters essay, English).
Waldon, Freda F. (1935). “Queen Anne and the four kings of Canada: a bibliography of contemporary sources.” Canadian Historical Review 16 (3): 266–275.

Waldon, Freda F. (1935), “Suggested program for Canadian libraries.” In Public documents: their selection, distribution, cataloging, reproduction and preservation, ed. by A. F. Kuhlman: 37–45. Chicago: American Library Association.
Waldon, Freda F. (1942). “War libraries.” Ontario Library Review 26 (2): 171–174.

Waldon, Freda F. and Marget H.C. Meikleham (1944). “If you like books and people; an open letter to the graduating class of McMaster, 1944.” Ontario Library Review 28 (3): 292–293.

Waldon, Freda F. (1944). “Larger public libraries in Canada.” Wilson Library Bulletin 19 (3): 171–173.

Waldon, Freda F. (1945). “Report of the Committee on Salaries.” Ontario Library Review 29 (3): 279–280.

Waldon, Freda F. (1945). “The School comes to the library.” The School [Secondary Edition]: a Magazine Devoted to Elementary and Secondary Education 33 (5): 387–391.

Waldon, Freda F. (1947). “National Library service.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association, 2nd Meeting [Vancouver, June 14–16], 1947: 9–15. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Waldon, Freda F. (1947). “Why no National Library? CBC Broadcast 27 August 1947.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 4 (2): 41–43.

Waldon, Freda F. (1948). “Financing the library, a broadcast over CHML.” Ontario Library Review 32 (1): 3–6.
Waldon, Freda F. and Katharine Greenfield (1949). “The brains of the library: Hamilton Public Library broadcast over station CHML January 20, 1948.” CLA Bulletin v.5 (5): 168–171.
Waldon, Freda F. (1949). “We like functional architecture.” Ontario Library Review 33 (2): 83–87.
Waldon, Freda F. (1951). “Children are wanted–now!” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 8 (1): 17–20.

Waldon, Freda F. (1951). “The Massey report.” [a speech given before the] Hamilton Association, Nov. 10, 1951.

Waldon, Freda F. (1951). “W.G.B.: a personal reminiscence [Winifred Barnstead].” Ontario Library Review 35 (3) : 203–205.

Waldon, Freda F. (1953). “A golden anniversary: William Henry Lovering, Q.C., O.B.E.” Ontario Library Review 37 (1): 15–16.
Waldon, Freda F. (1953). “The Massey Report – three years after.”

Waldon, Freda F. (1956). “Tribute to a fellow librarian [Charles Sanderson obit].” Ontario Library Review 40 (3): 166–167.
Waldon, Freda F. 1957). “More than a Branch [Westdale in Hamilton].” Library Journal 82 (21): 3050–3051.

Waldon, Freda F. (1963). “Early provisions for libraries in Hamilton.” Wentworth Bygones 4: 22–35.

Waldon, Freda F. (1963). “Why local history?” Ontario Library Review 47 (2): 33–35.

Waldon, Freda F. (1968). “The C.L.A.–the first twenty years.” In Librarianship in Canada, 1946–1967: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Homer Morton, ed. by Bruce B. Peel: 22–37. Victoria: Canadian Library Association.

Waldon, Freda F. (1990). Bibliography of Canadiana published in Great Britain, 1519-1973. Revised and edited by William F. E Morley. Ottawa: National Library of Canada. (Published posthumously).

Honours and Accomplishments:

1931–1932 Carnegie Fellowship for study in London
1941–1942 President, Ontario Library Association
1946–1947 First President of the Canadian Library Association
1954 Honorary Doctor of Laws, McMaster University, for her contribution to Canadian librarianship
United Nations Award for Meritorious Service in recognition of 35 years of active membership
Active member of the American Library Association, serving on council for four years

Comments:

Described as a “Renaissance Woman,” Freda Waldon’s accomplishments were many spreading over three areas – Scholarship, contributions to the improvement of libraries and library services and dedicated community service. As a professional and chief librarian, she transformed the cataloguing system of the Hamilton Public Library and “she will be remembered for the expansion of branch libraries, for increased children’s services, and for enhancing human resources for library staff.“ As a library administrator, she transformed the Hamilton Public Library into a first-rate resource in the areas of catalogue and its book collection.” Before her retirement, the collection was the fourth largest in a public library in Canada; circulation had grown to the third largest and a nationwide reputation had been gained for the quality of the reference service offered.” Her contributions to library service reached far beyond her own library in her services on the executive of the Ontario Library Association, her leadership as the first president of the Canadian Library Association and her contributions that led to the development of the National Library of Canada. Her scholarship can be seen in the development of the monumental Bibliography of Canadiana, Published in Great Britain 1519-1763 which was prepared under a Carnegie Fellowship. A dedicated community worker, she took a leading role in adult education, helping to found the Hamilton Recreation Council and the Hamilton branch of the National Film Forum. She was also a founding member of the Women’s Committee of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society,

Sources:

Freda Farrell Waldon. Hamilton Public Library. Accessed Feb. 15, 2016.
Freda Farrell Waldon,1992 Gallery of Distinction Inductee. Accessed Feb. 15, 2016.
Wikipedia. Freda Farrell Waldon. Accessed May 29, 2017.
Canadian Who’s Who 1973-75. Toronto: Who’s Who Canadian Publications, 1975. p. 1020.
Kathleen R Mathews, “Freda Farrell Waldon, 1898–1973” (1990). In the Bibliography of Canadiana published in Great Britain, 1519-1973: pp. xiii–xxxiii. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Wallace, Ruby Evelyn

b. 5 May 1906, Thessalon, ON; d. 14 Nov. 1964, Sydney, NS

Education:

1928 BA Library Science and Secretarial Science, University of Western Ontario

Positions

1928–34 Children’s librarian, Kitchener Public Library
1934–50 Chief Librarian, Niagara Falls Public Library
1950–64 Librarian, Cape Breton Regional Library

Publications

Wallace, Ruby (1940). “Simplified cataloguing and classification in the medium-sized library.” Ontario Library Review 24 (2): 142–145.
Wallace, Ruby (1944). “Library finances.” Ontario Library Review 28 (3): 286–188.
Wallace, Ruby (1947). “Film service and the budget.” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 4 (3): 106.
Wallace, Ruby (1951). “An afternoon in Dominion Branch, Cape Breton regional library.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 15 (2): 2–4.
Wallace, Ruby (1951). “Cape Breton regional library.” Ontario Library Review 35 (1): 22–24.
Wallace, Ruby (1954). “What Is a Provincial Library? [Nova Scotia].” Ontario Library Review 38 (2): 87–89.
Wallace, Ruby and Anne McCormick (1959). “Nova Scotia Regional Libraries.” Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada 36 (4): 119–120.
Wallace, Ruby (1962). “The challenge of the future.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 17th annual conference, Ottawa, June 22–29, 1962, pp. 60–63.
Wallace, Ruby (1963). “Breakthrough to progress.” In Proceedings of the Canadian Library Association 18th annual conference, Winnipeg, June 19–28, 1963, pp. 5–7 [presidential address].

Associations

President, Ontario Library Association, 1947–48
President, Maritime Library Association, 1954–55
President, Canadian Library Association, 1962–63

Comments

“Libraries may reach only a portion of our citizens, but each individual can be made aware that he has the opportunity to read freely of the world’s knowledge.”

— Ruby Wallace, June 29, 1962, Canadian Library Association conference, Ottawa.

“Her ability to work with other people is attested to by membership on the Council as well as the Board of Directors of the Canadian Library Association, to the Presidential offices severally of the Ontario Library Association, of the Atlantic Provinces Library Association and, in 1962, of the Canadian Library Association. Her knowledge of the wider world of librarianship was enhanced by her receipt of a Canada Council grant which enabled her to visit Scandinavian libraries and, subsequently, to compare these with our own in such a way as to be of mutual benefit to librarians in both countries.

”Those persons who knew Ruby Wallace well will not be surprised to learn that she willed her remains to science and that she called for contributions to the Scholarship Fund of the Canadian Library Association in lieu of flowers. Those librarians who knew her only casually will always associate her with that small but select band of professionals who held charter membership in the Canadian Library Association.” — Eugene Gattinger, President, Atlantic Provinces Library Association, 1965.

Sources

F. Eugene Gattinger. “Ruby Wallace,” Atlantic Provinces Library Association Bulletin 29 (February 1965): 8–9
Peter Grossman. (1965). “Ruby E. Wallace.” Canadian Library 21 (5): 352

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Wallace, William Stewart

William Stewart Wallace, n.d. Credit University of Toronto Archives

b. June 23, 1884, Georgetown, ON; d. March 11, 1970, Toronto, ON

Education:

1906 BA (University of Toronto)
1909 BA (Oxford University)
1912 MA (Oxford University)

Positions:

1906-1907 Lecturer in English and History, Western University
1909-1920 Professor in History, McMaster University (Toronto)
1910-1922 Lecturer in History, University of Toronto
1920-1923 Assistant and Associate Librarian, University of Toronto
1923-1954 University Librarian, University of Toronto

Publications (major contributions):

Library contributions:

Wallace, W.S. (1921). “Taking the university library to the people.” University of Toronto Monthly 21(6): 261–262.

Wallace, W.S. (1929). “The university library of to-day and to-morrow.” University of Toronto Monthly 29(6): 225–226.

Wallace, W.S. (1933). “New library in the University College.” University of Toronto Monthly 33(8): 261–262.

Locke, George H. and W.S. Wallace, eds. (1934). A joint catalogue of the periodicals and serials in the libraries of the City of Toronto. 4th ed. Toronto: King’s Printer.

Wallace, W.S. (1938). “Canadian government documents.” Ontario Library Review 22(3): 195–196.

Wallace, W.S. (1946). “Need for a National Library is urgent.” Saturday Night 61 (6 October): 28.

Wallace, W.S. (1957). Report on provincial library service in Ontario. Toronto: Department of Education.

Historical and edited contributions:

Wallace, W.S. (1922). By star and compass, tales of the explorers of Canada. Toronto: Oxford [school text, rev. in 1953].

Wallace, W.S., ed. (1926). The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: MacMillan [1st ed., rev. in 1945 and 1963].

Wallace, W.S. (1927). A history of the University of Toronto, 1827-1927. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Wallace, W.S. (1927). The growth of Canadian national feeling. Toronto: Macmillan.

Wallace, W.S., ed. (1935-1937). Encyclopedia of Canada, 6 vols. Toronto: University Associates of Canada.

Wallace, W.S. (1949). The Royal Canadian Institute centennial volume, 1849-1949. Toronto: Royal Canadian Institute.

Wallace, W.S. (1954). The Ryerson imprint: a check-list of the books and pamphlets published by the Ryerson Press since the Foundation of the House in 1829. Toronto: Ryerson.

Associations (Presidential positions):

President, Ontario Library Association, 1942-1943
President, Champlain Society, 1943-1948
President, Canadian Library Association, 1951-1952

Honours:

1928 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
1936 J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal [History], Royal Society of Canada
1948 LL.D, University of British Columbia
1951 LL.D, McMaster University
1954 LL.D, University of Toronto
1967 Canadian Centennial Medal

Accomplishments:

W.S. Wallace was the epitome of the scholar-librarian. Over the course of forty years, he wrote and edited many Canadian monographs and reference works in addition to his administrative duties at the University of Toronto. He joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force and reached the rank of major in World War I. He helped to establish the Canadian Historical Review and served as its first editor, 1920-30. He was a long-time member of the Champlain Society and edited or contributed to its publications. Wallace was a precise bibliographer and member of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. He was a lover of mystery novels and, upon retirement, he purchased the Dora Hood Book Room, a successful Toronto bookshop.

Sources:

Blackburn, Robert H. (1989). Evolution of the heart. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 131-50.
Blackwell, John D. (1996). “A librarian extraordinaire: W. Stewart Wallace (1884-1970).” Feliciter 42(3): 36–37.
“W. Stewart Wallace.” (1970). Ontario History 62(2): 82-83.
“W. Stewart Wallace.” (1970). Canadian Historical Review 51(2):243-44.
The William Stewart Wallace Papers and Fonds are held by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

ELA biography compiled by Lorne Bruce

Wees, Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell Wees, c. 1960. Credit ALA Bulletin

b. Oct. 28, 1927, Winnipeg, MA; d. Nov. 4, 2019, Ottawa, ON

Education:

BA 1945 University of Manitoba
MA 1947 University of Manitoba
PhD 1949 Sorbonne (Université de Paris)
BLS 1952 McGill University

Positions

1946–1947 Teaching assistant in the French departments of the University of Manitoba and St. John’s College, WInnipeg
1952 Assistant reference librarian, Winnipeg Public Library
1952–1961 Librarian, Canadian Bibliographic Centre, then National Library of Canada
1961–1965 Head, Union Catalogue Section, National Library of Canada
1965–1967 Head, Public Service Section, National Library of Canada
1967–1977 Assistant Director, Reference (later Public Services) Branch, National Library of Canada
1977–1978 Cultural Programs Officer, National Library of Canada

Publications

Wees, Ian C. (1947). “Le comique chez Molière étudié d’après les théories de Bergson.” Thesis (Department of French), U of Manitoba. [English translation “Comedy in Molière Studied via the Theories of Bergson.”

Wees, Ian C. (1949). “Les idées de René Boylesve” (PhD dissertation, Paris: Sorbonne, Université de Paris.

Wees, Ian C. (1958). “Joseph Burr Tyrrell, November 1, 1858–August 26, 1957,” Canadian Historical Association. Report of the Annual Meeting held at Edmonton June 4–7, 1958 with Historical Papers.

Wees, Ian C. (1960). “Bibliothèques gouvernementales” Bulletin de l’Association Canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue française, 6, no. 3 (sept): 84–85

Wees, Ian C. (1960). “Early Libraries in Quebec City and Montreal,” ALA Bulletin 54, no. 4 (April): 303–308.

[Wees, Ian C.] (1960). “National Library Unique Serving All of Canada,” Ottawa Journal, April 4, 1960.

Wees, Ian C. (1960). “Vocabularum bibliothecarii. Supplement 1958” Revue de publications de l’UNESCO / UNESCO Publications Review, no 9, février / February: 29–30

Wees, Ian C. (1964). “At last, a National Library,” RCMP Quarterly 21, no. 4 (April): 253–258.

Wees, Ian C. (1964). “The National Library of Canada,” Optimist magazine 44, no. 11 (Nov.): 8–9.

Wees, Ian C. (1970). “Lending policies of Canadian libraries,” Canadian Library Journal 27, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb.): 40–50.

Wees, Ian C. (1973). “Proposed service of the National Library to the blind and physically handicapped,” BCLA Reporter 17, no. 5 (Dec.): 15–16.

Wees, Ian C. (1973) “Proposed service of the National Library to the blind and physically handicapped,” Manitoba Library Association Bulletin 4, no. 1 (Dec.): 22–24.

Wees, Ian C. and J. Ross Hotson (1976). “Library Service to the Handicapped,” Canadian Library Journal 33, no. 5 (Oct.): 473–479.

Wees, Ian C. (1978). The National Library of Canada: Twenty-Five Years After: A Retrospective Overview. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

Wees, Ian C. (1978). “The National Library of Canada: the First Quarter-Century,” Canadian Library Journal 35, no. 6 (June): 153–164.

Wees, Ian C, (2000). “The Germ of the National Library,” National Library News 31, no.5 (May): 12.

Wees, Ian C. (2009). “Martha Shepard (1911–2009),“ Feliciter 55, no 5 (May): 188.

Committees and Task Groups

Ian Wees was a member of the National Library’s Canadian Task Group on Cataloguing Standards and the Canadian Union Catalogue Task Group. He chaired the national Task Group on Library Service to the Handicapped which produced a major report in 1976. He was the Secretary (1966-1968) and Chairman (1968-1970) of the Government Reference Libraries Committee of the Canadian Library Association. He was a member of the Canadian Library Association’s Subcommittee on Telecommunication Code, Library Mechanization Committee (1966-1967) and Chair of the Association’s Scholarship and Awards Subcommittee (1970-1972). He was a member of the CLA’s Copyright Committee as well as a federal government Interdepartmental Committee on Copyright. Lastly, he was also a member of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History’s Bibliography Committee

Achievements and Comments

Ian began work at the Canadian Bibliographic Centre in November 1952 then housed in a corner of a museum room on the ground floor of the Public Archives building at 330 Sussex Street in Ottawa (now the Global Centre for Pluralism), Something of an academic prodigy, he was one of four librarians and four clerical staff and the first male employee of the Centre, soon to become the National Library of Canada. His visits to microfilm card catalogues for the national union catalogue in Hamilton (Mills Memorial Library at McMaster University and Hamilton Public Library) and Kingston (Queen’s University, Royal Military College and Fort Frontenac libraries) were chronicled in the October 20, 1954 Hamilton Spectator (“All Being Filmed: Book Files On Record For Future”) and the August 22, 1955 Kingston Whig Standard (“Libraries Here on the List”). Ian helped to create a number of specialized services at the National Library, including rare books, children’s literature and handicapped persons. He led the national Task Group on Library Service to the Handicapped and was the first editor of the National Library News (1969-1972). In addition, he organized exhibitions for the National Library, including “Olympic Sports in Art and Literature” (1976) and “National Library of Canada: the first Twenty-Five Years exhibition (1978).

Awards: Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal (1977)

Sources

“Task Group on Library Service to the Handicapped,” National Library News 8, no. 3 (May-June1976): 10–11.
“Retirement [of Dr. Ian Wees],” National Library News 10 no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1978): 5.
Interview with Ian and Eleanor Wees for a history of the National Library project May 2013.
Obituary at Arbour Memorial.

ELA biography compiled by Paul McCormick

Weihs, Jean Riddle

Jean Weihs. Credit T. Sandler Photography

b. Nov. 12, 1930, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1951 BA Queen’s University, Kingston, ON
1953 BLS University of Toronto
1965 Specialist in School Librarianship, University of Toronto

Positions:

1953–1959 Bibliographer, University of Toronto
1960–1964 General Reference Librarian, North York Public Library
1965–1966 School Librarian, Public Schools, Scarborough, ON
1966 Cataloguer, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
1967–1969 Head of Technical Services, Public Schools, East York, ON
1968–1969 Instructor, Ontario Ministry of Education
1969–1986 Director of Library Techniques Course, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
1988 Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
1989 Visiting Professor, Simmons, College

Publications:(selected contributions)

Books:

Weihs, Jean (1981). Library technician. 4th ed. Toronto: Guidance Centre, Faculty of Education, University of Toronto.
Weihs, Jean (1984). Accessible storage of nonbook materials. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.
Weihs, Jean and Lynne Howarth (1988). A brief guide to AACR2 1988 revision, and implications for automated systems. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.
Weihs, Jean, with assistance from Shirley Lewis (1989). Nonbook materials: the organization of integrated collections. 3rd ed. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association. [Preliminary ed., 1970, 1st ed., 1973, 2nd ed., 1979].
Weihs, Jean (1991). The integrated library: encouraging access to multimedia materials. 2nd ed. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.
Weihs, Jean (1995). Facts about Canada, its provinces and territories. New York: H.W. Wilson Co.
Weihs, Jean, ed. (1998). The principles and future of AACR: proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future of AACR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23–25, 1997. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Library Association Publishing; Chicago: American Library Association.
Intner, Sheila S. and Jean Weihs (1998). Special libraries: a cataloging guide. Englewood, CO.: Libraries Unlimited.
Weihs, Jean (1999). Nunavut: our land. Mississauga, ON: M.O.D. Publishing.
Weihs, Jean (2000). Ontario. Toronto: SYSDOCS/MOD Publishing.
Weihs, Jean (2001). British Columbia. Toronto: SYSDOCS/MOD Publishing.
Weihs, Jean and Janice Caven (2001). Aspects of government in Canada: curriculum source guides. Toronto: SYSDOCS/MOD Publishing.
Intner, Sheila S., Susan S. Lazinger and Jean Weihs (2006). Metadata and its impact on libraries. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited.
Evans, G. Edward, Sheila S. Intner, Jean Weihs ((2011). Introduction to Technical Services. 8th ed. Greenwood Village, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Intner, Sheila S., Joanna F. Fountain and Jean Weihs (2011). Cataloging correctly for kids: an introduction to the tools. 5th ed. Chicago: American Library Association.
Intner, Sheila S. and Jean Weihs ((2015). Standard cataloging for school and public libraries. 5th ed. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited.
Chan, Lois Mai, Sheila S. Inter and Jean Weihs (2016). Guide to Library of Congress classification. 6th ed. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited.
Weihs, Jean and Sheila S. Intner (2017). Beginning cataloging. 2nd ed. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited.

Articles in books:

Weihs, Jean Riddle (1979). “Problems and prospects in non-book cataloging.” In The nature and future of the catalog: proceedings of the ALA’s Information Science and Automated Division’s 1975 and 1977 Institutes on the Catalog, edited by Maurice J. Freedman and S. Michael Malinconico, pp. 272–290. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press.
Weihs, Jean (1987). “Access to nonbook materials: the role of subject headings and classification numbers for nonbook materials.” In Policy and practice in bibliographic control of non-book materials, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Richard P. Smiraglia, pp.53–63. Chicago: American Library Association.
Weihs, Jean (1987). “A taste of nonbook history: historical background and review of the state of the art of bibliographic control of nonbook materials.” In Policy and practice in bibliographic control of nonbook media, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Richard P. Smiraglia, pp. 3–14. Chicago: American Library Association.
Weihs, Jean (1988). “Organizing the collection: state of the art.” In The library microcomputer environment: management issues, edited by Sheila S. Intner and Jane Anne Hannigan, pp. 35–44. Phoenix, AZ.: Oryx Press.

Journal Articles:

Jean published numerous articles in the journal Technicalities and in ELAN.
Riddle, Jean, Shirley Lewis and Janet Macdonald (1970). “Bibliographic chaos and control in the Multi-Media Centre.” Canadian Library Journal 27 (6): 444–447.
Weihs, Jean Riddle (1972). “Cataloguing rules for nonbook materials.” Technical Sidelights 3 (3): 21–32.
Weihs, Jean Riddle (1973). “The standardization of cataloging rules for non-book materials: a progress report, April 1972.” Library Resources & Technical Services 16 (3): 305–314.
Weihs, Jean Riddle (1976). “Library technicians: a personal view.” Emergency Librarian 4 (1): 24–26.
Weihs, Jean Riddle (1976). “Problems of subject analysis for audio/visual materials in Canadian libraries.” Canadian Library Journal 33 (5): 453–455.
Weihs, Jean Riddle (1977). “Nonbook cataloguing: problems and prospects.” Hennepin County Library Cataloging Bulletin 29: 36–42.
Weihs, Jean (1979). “Survey of library technician programs in Canada.” Canadian Library Journal 36 (6): 354–369.
Weihs, Jean, with Warren Grabinsky (1984). “Library technicians in school systems: the story behind the document: the Ad Hoc Committee on the Role of the Library Technician in Respect to School Libraries.” School Libraries in Canada 4 (4): 17–21.
Weihs, Jean (1987). “Predictions for library technicians: a look at their education and working lives.” Canadian Library Journal 43 (5): 303–306. Reprinted in The AALT Technician 13 (4):37–40.
Weihs, Jean (1987). “AACR2: a practical approach.” Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences 24 (3): 255–260.
Howarth, Lynne C. and Jean Weihs (1994). “AACR2R: dissemination and use in Canadian libraries.” Library Resources & Technical Services 38 (2): 179–189.
Weihs, Jean and Lynne C. Howarth (1994). “AACR2R format preferences in Canadian libraries.” Library Resources & Technical Services 38 (3): 306–315.
Howarth, Lynne C. and Jean Weihs (1995). “AACR2R use in Canadian libraries and implications for bibliographic databases.” Library Resources & Technical Services 39 (1): 85–99.
Weihs, Jean and Lynne C. Howarth (1995). “Nonbook materials: their occurrence and bibliographic description in Canadian Libraries.” Library Resources & Technical Services 39 (2): 184–197.
Weihs, Jean (1997). “Technical services education for library technicians in the 1990s.” Technical Services Quarterly 15 (1/2): 43–50.
Weihs, Jean (2001). “A somewhat personal history of non-book cataloging.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 31 (3/4): 159–188. Also published In The audiovisual cataloging current, Sandra Roe, ed., pp. 59–188. New York Haworth Press.
Weihs, Jean (2004–2005). “Future of the GMD: what can be done to improve it or to find alternative ways to fulfill its function? Presented by Chris Oliver, a report.” OLAC Newsletter 24 (4): 28–30 and Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 41 (1): 215–217.
Weihs, Jean and Frances Davidson-Arnott (2005). “The evolution of library technician programs in Canada.” Feliciter 51 (1): 27–30.
Weihs, Jean (2005). “An interview with Lynne Howarth.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 40 (1): 3–17.
Howarth, Lynne C. and Jean Weihs (2007). “Making the link: AACR to RDA. Part 1: setting the stage.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 45 (2): 3–18.
Weihs, Jean and Lynne C. Howarth (2008). “Designating materials: from germane terms to element types.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 45 (4): 3–24.
Weihs, Jean (2008). “The emergence of Library Technician Programs in Canada: a brief history.” Feliciter 54 (2): 70–73.
Weihs, Jean (2008). “Libraries, librarians, indexes and indexing: should we care?” The Indexer 26 (2): 79–82. Also published In Newcomers: a selection of articles for those new to indexing, edited by Maureen McGlashen, pp. 6–14. London: Society of Indexers, 2012.
Howarth, Lynne C. and Jean Weihs (2008). “Enigma variations: parsing the riddle of main entry and the ‘rule of three’.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 46 (2): 201–220.
Weihs, Jean and Lynne Howarth (2008). “Uniform titles from AACR to RDA.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 46 (4): 362–384.

Indexes for publications: (compiled by Jean Weihs)

Anglo-American cataloguing rules, second edition, 1998 revision, prepared under the direction of the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association, 1998.
Cataloguing Hebrew materials in the online environment: a comparative study of American and Israeli approaches, by Susan S. Lazinger and Elhanan Adler. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1998.
The concise AACR2, 1998 revision, by Michael Gorman. Chicago: American Library Association, 1999.
Opacity: gender, sexuality, race and the “problem” of identity in Martinique, by David Murray. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.
Homophobias: lust and loathing cross time and space, edited by David A. B. Murray. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
ELAN: Ex Libris Association Newsletter

Associations/Committees: (selected)

Member, Joint Advisory Committee on Nonbook Materials, 1970–1995
Canadian Library Association representative to the American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Audiovisual Committee, 1973–1980
Member, American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Cataloging and Classification Section Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Subject Analysis of Audiovisual Materials, 1975–1978
Canadian Library Association representative to Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, 1978–1986
Member, Editorial Board, Technicalities, 1980–1986
Chairperson, Canadian Committee on Cataloguing, 1981–1986
Chairperson, Canadian School Library Association Ad Hoc Committee on the Role of the Library Technician in Respect to School Libraries, 1982–1985
Member, American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Cataloging and Classification Section Committee on the Cataloging of Children’s Materials, 1983–1987
Member, Ontario Library Association Professional Development Committee, 1984–1987
Chairperson, Joint Steering Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 1984–1989
Co-chairperson, Task Force on the Roles of Librarians and Library Technicians, Canadian Library Association, 1986–1989
Ontario Library Association representative to the Toronto Education Group, 1987–1992
Member, American Library Association, Cataloging and Classification Section Committee on Education, Training, and Recruitment, 1988–1992
Member, Online Audiovisual Catalogers Editorial Committee, 1991–1994
Co-chairperson, Education Committee, Ontario Library Association, 1992–1995
Secretary, Ex Libris Association, 1995–2021
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Library Metadata, 2007–
Member, American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division, Cataloging and Classification Section, Policy and Research Committee
National Library of Canada representative to formulate with the Library of Congress the official list of media designations for the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

Achievements:

During her long and distinguished career, Jean Weihs worked in university, public, school and special libraries as a reference librarian, a bibliographer and a school librarian. Most of her career has been involved in cataloguing, both as a practitioner and a teacher of librarians, library technicians, and school librarians in Canada and as a visiting professor in the United States. Her major contribution has been in the cataloguing of nonbook materials, where she played a major role in the development and standardization of the principles, rules and practices used in the cataloguing of such materials. She was an internationally recognized expert on the bibliographical control of nonbook materials. Jean Weihs has had a long career of active participation serving in 45 positions on national and international committees, publishing 19 books and more than 150 articles, chapters, and reviews. She represented the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing for nine years on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, five years of these as JSC Chair. The groundbreaking work, Nonbook materials: the organization of integrated collections, was accepted by the American Library Association as one of the four primary sources for the development of the Anglo-American cataloging rules, 2d. ed., 1978. Jean Weihs was also involved in developing the list of general material designations that appeared in AACR2.

Awards and Honours:

In recognition of her service and her outstanding work, Jean Weihs received many awards. The Online Audiovisual Cataloguers Nancy B. Olson Award was given to Jean Weihs ‘for being one of the first librarians to recognize the relevance of media collections to all levels of education and all types of libraries and understanding the value of providing bibliographic access to those collections…” The prestigious Order of Canada award citation states: “Jean Weihs steadfast attention to detail has helped shape library science in Canada and around the world. For over 50 years, she has been a leader in developing global standards and practices for cataloguing nonbook materials. She has chaired and participated in many Canadian and international committees, and has contributed numerous articles and books to help broaden the field. Dedicated to improving bibliographic access to information, she is widely celebrated by her peers, both at home and abroad.”
Member of the Order of Canada, 2017
Ruby E. Wallace Travelling Fellowship (given by Canadian Library Association to study nonbook cataloguing), 1968
Canada Council Award (the first given to a librarian for library science research), 1969
Queen’s Jubilee Medal (given by the Governor General of Canada, nominated by the Canadian Library Association), 1977
University of Toronto Faculty of Library and Information Science Alumni Jubilee Award, 1982
American Library Association Margaret Mann Citation in Cataloging and Classification, 1986
Ontario College and University Library Association Award for outstanding contributions to research librarianship and library development, 1988
University of Toronto Faculty Library and Information Science 60th Anniversary Award for outstanding contributions to the field of library and information science, 1989
Canadian Association of College and University Libraries The Blackwell’s Award for Distinguished Academic Librarian, 1990
John Comaromi Lectureship (awarded for the first time by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, American library Association), 1994
Online Audiovisual Cataloguers’ Nancy B. Olson Award for lifetime achievement in the development of access to media collections, 2003
Cataloging and Classification Quarterly Best Paper Award, 2009 for “Designing materials: from germane terms to element types.”
Satija Research Foundation for Library and Information Science (India), World Library Leaders Life Time Achievement Award (first time awarded), 2013

Comments:

“All of Jean Weihs’ achievements have been accomplished in a very quiet and unassuming way…She had a simple objective: to produce a manual of practice which would help Canadian library catalogers solve their nonbook problems. She had no thought or premonition that her work would play an important role in the standardization of nonbook cataloging…It has been diligence and persistence in the search for underlying principles and rules, as well as their logical and careful application in practice that has ultimately led to her success. In all of her activities, Jean has endeavoured to leave no stone unturned and no problem without a reasonable solution.”–– Nancy J. Williamson

Sources:

Williamson, Nancy J. (1986). “Margaret Mann citation, 1986: Jean Weihs.” Library Resources & Technical Resources 30, no. 4 (October/December): 423-426.
Online Audiovisual Catalogers (2003). “The Nancy B. Olson award winner [Jean Weihs].” OLAC Newsletter 23, no. 3 (September): 36–37.
Roe, Sandra K. (2003). “An interview with Jean Weihs, Nancy B. Olson and Verna Urbamski.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 36 (1): 3–23.
Governor General of Canada. Ms. Jean Weihs, Order of Canada, member of the Order of Canada. https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-10307
Jean Weihs. https://prabook.com/web/jean.weihs/3740509

Wilkinson, John Provost

b. 1927; d. Sept. 28, 2014, London, ON

Education:

University of Toronto Schools
1948 BA (University of Toronto)
1949 MA (University of Toronto)
1950 BLS (University of Toronto, School of Library Science)
1966 PhD (University of Chicago)

Positions:

Toronto Public Library. Reference Dept.
Ontario College of Education
University of Nebraska Library, Assistant Director
Director, Dalhousie University Library
1965-1993 Professor of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto
1994-2014 Professor Emeritus

Publications:

Wilkinson, John P. (1955). “The problem of professionalism.” Ontario Library Review, 39 (1): 5-7.

Wilkinson, John P. (1957). “A division of labour.” Ontario Library Review, 41 (2): 87-88.

Wilkinson, John P. (1966). A history of the Dalhousie University main library, 1867-1931. Chicago: University of Chicago. PhD Dissertation.

Wilkinson, John P. (1968). Scoping the future of librarianship in Ontario. Toronto: [s.n.]

Wilkinson, John P. (1968). “The Bain and Rhees lists.” IPLO Quarterly, 9: 41-45.

Wilkinson, John P. (1975). Canadian juvenile fiction: the publisher library interface. Toronto: Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.

Wilkinson, John P., principal investigator. (1976). A Canadian public library inquiry: research design. Prepared by the Centre for Research in Librarianship. Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto for the Canadian Association of Public Libraries of the Canadian Library Association. Toronto: Centre for Research in Librarianship.

Wilkinson, John P. (1976). Canadian juvenile fiction: the publisher and library market. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association.

Wilkinson, John P., J. Michael Michaud and Richard L. Hopkins. (1981). Canadian library journal readership survey. Toronto: Centre for Research in Librarianship, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.

Wilkinson, John P. (1982). The cost effective library. [s.n.:s.l.]

Wilkinson, John P. (1982). “Research and the profession of librarianship.” Argus, 11 (3/4): 81-83.

Fasick, Adele M. and John P. Wilkinson. (1983). To buy or not to buy: an analysis of Ontario elementary school library purchasing of selected Canadian and U.S. periodicals. Toronto: Centre for Research in Librarianship, Faculty of Library Science, University of Toronto.

Wilkinson, John P. (1983). “The role of the library in the development of a university: one interpretation of the history of the Dalhousie University Library from 1818 to 1931.” Atlantic Provinces Library Association Bulletin, 46 (5, March): 56-64.

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.

Hambleton, Alixe E. and John P. Wilkinson. (1994). The role of the school library in resource-based learning. Regina, Sask: Saskatchewan School Trustees Association.

Associations/Committees:

Canadian Library Association
Ontario Library Association
Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario, publisher of the IPLO Quarterly
Ex Libris Association
Member of the Senate, University of Toronto

Comments:

Teaching responsibilities included the history of libraries, research methods, academic librarianship, administration, reference services, and publisher-library relations.

“A peerless storyteller with a deep and vibrant intellect, the warmest of hearts, a rich humour and a love of life. He will be missed by all who shared his company.”

Sources:

Obituary: Globe and Mail, Wed., Oct.1, 2014.

Williamson, Nancy Joyce

Nancy Williamson BA graduate portrait. Credit Mount Allison yearbook 1949

b. July 4, 1928, St. Stephen, NB; d. Dec. 3, 2023, Toronto ON

Education:

1949 BA Mount Allison
1950 BLS University of Toronto
1954 MLS University of Toronto
1974 PhD Case Western Reserve University

Positions:

1950–1956 Reference Librarian, Arts and Science, Hamilton Public Library
1956–1964 First Assistant, Cataloguing Dept., Hamilton Public Library
1964–1965 Head, Technical Services, Hamilton Public Library
1965–1977 Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
1977–1982 Associate Professor, University of Toronto
1982–2005 Professor, University of Toronto
2005– Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Publications: (selected contributions)

Articles:

Williamson, Nancy (1954). “Canadian music and composers since 1949.” Ontario Library Review 38 (2): 118–122.

Williamson, Nancy (1976). “ISBD problems and prospects.” Expression 1 (spring): 3–7. [Ontario Library Association]

Williamson, Nancy (1978). “Methodology in bibliography.” In The Society of Canada Colloquium III, National Library of Canada, Ottawa, 19–21 October 1978, pp. 28–42. Toronto: Coach House Press.

Williamson, Nancy (1978). “Education for acquisitions librarians: a state of the art review.” Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory 2 (3/4): 199–208.

Williamson, Nancy (1980). “An experiment in the application of William Goffman’s indirect method of information retrieval.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1 (1): 3–21.

Williamson, Nancy (1981). “Viewdata systems: designing a database for effective user access.” Canadian Journal of Information Science 6: 1–14.

Williamson, Nancy (1982). “Cataloging and Classification Section: annual report, 1980–81” Library Resources & Technical Services 26 (1): 62–65.

Williamson, Nancy (1982). “Is there a catalog in your future: access to information in the year 2006.” Library Resources & Technical Services 26 (2): 122–135 (also published in Library Lit: The Best of 1982. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983, pp. 113–128).

Williamson, Nancy (1982). “Subject cataloguing in Canada.” International Cataloguing 11 (July): 30–32.

Williamson, Nancy (1984). “Subject access in the online environment.” In Advances in Librarianship, vol. 13, pp. 49–97. New York: Academic Press.

Williamson, Nancy (1985). “Classification in online systems: research and North American perspectives.” International Cataloguing 14 (3): 29–31.

Williamson, Nancy (1986). “The Library of Congress Classification: problems and prospects in online retrieval.” International Cataloguing 15 (4): 45–48.

Williamson, Nancy (1987). “Education for positions in the subject control of information.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 7 (4): 57–67.

Williamson, Nancy (1988). “Bilingualism and Canadian libraries.” Urban Academic Librarian 6 (spring): 17–24.

Williamson, Nancy (1989). “The role of classification in online systems.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 10 (1/2): 95–104.

Williamson, Nancy (1990). “The Universal Decimal Classification: its future.” In The UDC: Essays for a new decade, pp. 29–32. London: Aslib.

Williamson, Nancy (1991). “The ISCCR Conference.” International Classification 18 (4): 229–232.

Williamson, Nancy and I.C. McIlwaine (1993). “Future revision of the UDC: progress report on a feasibility study for restructuring.” Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 15: 11–17.

Williamson, Nancy J, (1994). “Future revision of the UDC: progress report on a feasibility for restructuring.” Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 16: 19–25.

Williamson, Nancy, Joan Cherry, Carol Jones-Simmons, and Xin Gu (1994). “OPACS in twelve Canadian academic libraries: an evaluation of functional capabilities and interface features.” Information Technology and Libraries 13 (3): 174–195.

Williamson, Nancy (1994). “Subject analysis systems.” In Guide to Technical Services Resources, pp. 68–85. Chicago: American Library Association.

Williamson, Nancy (1995). “Restructuring of Class 61—medical sciences.” Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 17: 11–67.

Williamson, Nancy (1996). “Standards and rules for subject access.” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 21 (3/4): 155–176.

Williamson, Nancy (1997). “A classification in the millennium.” CD ROM and Online Review 21 (5): 298–301.

Williamson, Nancy (1997). “The importance of subject analysis in library and information science education.” Technical Services Quarterly 15 (1/2): 67–87.

Williamson, Nancy (1997). “Subject analysis systems.” In New Directions in Technical Services Trends and Sources (1993–1995), pp. 86–118. Chicago: American Library Association.

Williamson, Nancy (2002). “Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Organization for the 21st Century: Integration of Knowledge Across Boundaries; Seventh ISKO International Conference, Granada, Spain, 10–13 July 2002.” Knowledge Organization 29 (2): 94–102.

Williamson, Nancy (2004). “Eighth International ISKO Conference. London, UK, 13–16 July 2004.” Knowledge Organization 31 (3): 188–195.

Williamson, Nancy (2005). “Classification issues: report of the IFLA General Conference, Classification and Indexing Section, Oslo, Norway.” Knowledge Organization 32 (4): 163–167.

Williamson, Nancy (2006). “Be-bop and hip-hop: more than 50 years in library and information science.” Originally presented at the annual meeting of CASLIS in May 2006. On the internet at Ex Libris website: https://www.exlibris.ca/occasional-papers/beebop-to-hiphop

Williamson, Nancy (2006). “Professor Neelameghan’s contribution to the advancement and development of classification in the context of knowledge organization.” In Knowledge organization, information systems and other essays: Professor A. Neelameghan festschrift, pp. 17–28. New Delhi: Ess Publications for the Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, Chennai and Bangalore, India.

Williamson, Nancy (2006). “International Society for Knowledge Organization.” Knowledge Organization 33 (4): 221–230. [Ninth International ISKO Conference, Vienna, Austria]

Williamson, Nancy (2007). “Knowledge structures and the internet: progress and prospects.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 44 (3/4): 329–342.

Williamson, Nancy and I.C. McIlwaine (2008). “Medicine and the UDC: the process of restructuring Class 61.” Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 30: 9–16.

Williamson, Nancy and I.C. McIlwaine (2009). “UDC medical sciences project: progress and problems.” Extensions and Corrections to the UDC 31: 33–36.

Williamson, Nancy (2009). “Classification Issues in 2007.” Knowledge Organization 36 (1): 66–74.

Williamson, Nancy (2010). “Classification Issues in 2008.” Knowledge Organization 37 (4): 318–331.

Williamson, Nancy (2010). “Clare Beghtol: Teacher, Researcher, and Theoretician.” Knowledge Organization 37 (2): 101–105.

Williamson, Nancy (2012). “Classification issues in 2011. Report: International UDC seminar 2011.” Knowledge Organization 39 (1): 55–59.

Williamson, Nancy (2013). “Paradigms and Conceptual Systems in Knowledge Organization, the 11th International ISKO Conference, Rome, 2010.” Knowledge Organization 40 (1): 64–75.

Williamson, Nancy (2015). “Knowledge Organization in the 21st Century: Between Historical Patterns and Future Prospects: the 13th International ISKO Conference, Krakow, Poland.” Knowledge Organization 42 (7): 522–536.

Williamson, Nancy (2015). “Categories, Contexts and Relations in Knowledge Organization: The 12th International ISKO Conference, Mysore, India. Knowledge Organization.” 42 (1): 51–56.

Papers in conference proceedings: (selected)

Williamson, Nancy (1973). “The present and future activities of the ALA/CLA/AECT/AMTEC/CAML Joint Advisory Committee on Nonbook Materials.” In Non-print media problems: Proceedings of a pre-conference workshop sponsored by the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, held at Winnipeg, June 22–23, 1974, pp. 30–52. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association [CLA Occasional Paper no 83].

Williamson, Nancy and Phyllis Richmond (1975). “Three dimensional models in classification.” In Online systems for global networks: Proceedings of the 3rd International Study Conference on Classification Research, Bombay, India, 6–11 January 1975, pp. 188–203. The Hague: FID/CR; and Bangalore: Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, 1979.

Williamson, Nancy (1981). “The compilation of a bibliography: bibliographic representation and organization.” In Bibliography for Canadian Studies—Present Trends and Organization: Proceedings of a Conference held at Dalhousie University, Halifax N.S. on June 1 & 2, 1981, pp. 277–284. Willowdale, Ontario: The Association, 1982.

Williamson, Nancy (1989). “The Library of Congress Classification in the computer age.” In Classification theory in the computer age: conversations across the disciplines: Proceedings from the Conference, November 18–19, 1988, Albany, New York, pp. 58–64. Albany, NY: Rockefeller College Press.

Williamson, Nancy (1990). “The Library of Congress Classification: preparations for an online system.” In Tools for knowledge organization and the human interface: Proceedings of the 1st International ISKO Conference, Darmstadt, 14–17 August 1990, part 2, pp. 210–218. Frankfurt, Germany: Indeks Verlag, 1991.

Williamson, Nancy (1991). “Restructuring the UDC: problems and possibilities.” In Classification research for knowledge representation and organization: Proceedings of the 5th International Study Conference on Classification Research, Toronto, Canada, 1991, pp. 381–388. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1992.

Williamson, Nancy (1993). “The National Library of Canada: technology towards the 21st century.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on National Libraries: towards the 21st Century, April 20–24 1993, Taipei, pp. 721–736. Taipei, Taiwan: National Central Library, Republic of China, 1993.

Williamson, Nancy (1993). “Standards and standardization in subject analysis systems: current status and future directions.” In Subject indexing: principles and practices in the 90s: Proceedings of the IFLA Satellite Meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal, 17–18 August 1993, pp. 278–291. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1995.

Williamson, Nancy (1994). “The Universal Decimal Classification: research to determine the feasibility of restructuring UDC into a fully-faceted system.” In Proceedings of the 5th ASIS SIG/CR Classification Workshop, October 16, 1994, vol. 5, pp. 185–196. Medford, NJ: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science, 1996.

Williamson, Nancy (1995). “The development of a notational system for a restructured UDC.” In Proceedings of the 6th ASIS/CR Classification Research Workshop, October 8, 1995, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 227–235. Medford, NJ.: Information Today for the American Society for Information Science, 1998.

Williamson, Nancy (1997). “Knowledge structures and the internet: progress and prospects.” In Knowledge organization and information retrieval: Proceedings of the 6th International Study Conference on Classification Research held at University College London, 16–18 June 1997, pp. 23–27. The Hague: International Federation for Information and Documentation, 1997.

Williamson, Nancy (2000). “Thesauri in the digital age: stability and dynamism in their development and use.” In Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the 6th international ISKO Conference, 10–13 July 2000, Toronto, Canada, pp. 268–274. Wurzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2000.

Monographs and edited works:

Williamson, Nancy (1977). Cataloguing and bibliography: a comparative study of the interrelationships seen through their principles and practices. Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University, PhD dissertation.

Williamson, Nancy (1980). An optimum structure for the Viewdata System to be used in the VISTA Project Field Trial: final report for Bell Canada. Toronto: n.p.

Williamson, Nancy and Michèle Hudon, eds. (1992). Classification Research for Knowledge Representation and Organization: Proceedings of the 5th International Study Conference on Classification Research, Toronto, Canada, June 24–28 1991. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Williamson, Nancy (1995). The Library of Congress Classification: a content analysis of the schedules in preparation for their conversion into machine-readable form (with the assistance of Suliang Feng and Tracy Tennant). Washington, DC: Cataloging Distribution System.

Williamson, Nancy, Clare Beghtol and Lynne Howarth, eds. (2000). Dynamism and stability in knowledge organization: Proceedings of the 6th International ISKO Conference, 10–13 July 2000. Toronto, Canada and Würzburg, Germany: Ergon Verlag, 2000.

Williamson, Nancy and Clare Beghtol, eds. (2004). Knowledge Organization and Classification in International Information Retrieval. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press.

Williamson, Nancy (n.d.). Classification system and procedures for the book and pamphlet collect of the Parliamentary Group for World Government, United Kingdom.

Williamson, Nancy (n.d.). Development of a faceted classification system for medical sciences, based on the medical sciences in the Bliss Classification Medical sciences. [used in Amsterdam library]

Awards and honours:

Canadian Federation of University Women. Alice E. Wilson Fellowship, 1972
Beta Phi Mu, 1974
Howard V. Phalin World Book Graduate Scholarship in Librarianship in Library Science, 1974
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1974
Canadian Library Association, Canadian Association of College and University Libraries, Distinguished Academic Librarian Award, 1991
International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID). Testimony of Commendation, 1996
Honorary Member, International Society for Knowledge Organization, 2000
Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto Alumni Jubilee Award, 2008

Achievements:

Upon her retirement, two of Nancy Williamson’s long-time colleagues remarked on her prominent contributions to librarianship.

“She ‘officially’ retired June 30, 1994, from a stellar academic career at the then Faculty of Library and Information Science (FLIS), University of Toronto, Canada. After twenty-nine years of research and teaching, she left a behind a legion of successful graduates at both Master’s and Doctoral degree levels, as well as innumerable professional and academic colleagues within and beyond the University.” — Lynne C. Howarth

“Williamson is one of those individuals whose work on behalf of international bodies has enhanced the influence of the various organizations with which she has been associated.” — Clare Beghtol

Sources:

Howarth, Lynne C. (2010). “Is there a catalog in your future: celebrating Nancy J. Williamson, scholar, educator, colleague, mentor.” Cataloging and Classification Quarterly 48 (1): 1–9.

Beghtol, Clare (2010). “Nancy J. Williamson and the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO).” Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 48 (1): 26–35.

Woods, Maureen Shelagh

b. Feb. 3, 1953, Saskatoon, SK; d. Apr. 13, 2013, Regina, SK

Education:

1974 BA (University of Regina)
1976 BLS (University of Alberta)

Positions:

1976-1985 Regina Public Library (including Connaught Branch and Albert Branch)
1985-1993 Saskatchewan Provincial Library, Northern Library Services Section, La Ronge, SK (resulted in the Pahkisimon Nuyeʔáh Library System)
1993-1999 Provincial Librarian of Saskatchewan
1999-2003 Director, Alberta Public Library Electronic Network (APLEN)
2003-2007 Director, Public Library Services, Government of British Columbia
2007-2008 Director, Coquitlam Public Library
2008-2009 Director, Fraser Valley Regional Library System
2009-2010 Executive Director, The Alberta Library
2010–2013 Executive Director, Saskatchewan Information and Library Services Consortium (SILS)

Honours:

Frances Morrison Award (Saskatchewan Library Association) 2013.

Publications:

It should be noted that, as a government employee, Maureen Woods did not sign her work personally. The following provincial government documents are among many that resulted largely from her leadership.

Independent but together: a vision for a province-wide multi-type library system (1992) Regina, SK.

Libraries without walls: the world within reach (2004) Victoria, BC.

Associations/Committees:

Chair, Saskatchewan Multitype Library Development Advisory Committee
President, Saskatchewan Library Association,1993-1994
Chair, Provincial and Territorial Library Directors Council, 2004-2005.

Comments:

Throughout her career, Maureen Woods exercised strong and enthusiastic leadership in library collaboration, across communities and provinces, across types of libraries, and across Canada. She chaired the Provincial and Territorial Library Directors Council (PTLDC), now the Provincial and Territorial Public Library Council, which organized the first and only meeting of the provincial and territorial ministers responsible for public library services, held in Calgary, Alberta, in 2005. This meeting, among other outcomes, resulted in strong advocacy by the provinces to the federal government for support of the Library Book Rate.

She also excelled at connecting local libraries and provincial governments to strengthen mutual understanding of local and provincial priorities. To that end, she organized the Libraries in Dialogue with Government, held in Victoria, BC, in 2008. This two-day conversation became a model for developing library/government partnerships.

The Saskatchewan Library Association renamed the Saskatchewan Libraries Education Bursary, sponsored by the Association and the Multitype Library Board, the Maureen Woods Education Bursary in her honour.

Sources:

Nomination and News Release re Frances Morrison Award (Saskatchewan Library Association) – April 2013
Obituary - Regina Leader-Post, April 17, 2013. Accessed March 2, 2017
Jeff Barber, Director, Regina Public Library (personal communications)

Zielinska, Marie u0022Mariau0022 Flora

b. June 26, 1921, Krakow, Poland; d. Sept. 10, 2016, Ottawa, ON

Education:

1947 M.SC (Jagellonian University, Krakow, Faculty of Agriculture)
1947 Graduate School of Social Sciences (Journalism)
1962 B. BIBL. (Université de Montréal)
1969 MLS (McGill University)

Positions:

1962-1963 Chief Librarian dr. Hans Selye Institute of Experimental Medicine, Université de Montréal
1963-1965 Université de Montréal Main Library, various departments
1965-1969 Université de Montréal, organized and headed libraries for the Department of Biology
1969-1973 Head of the Dept. of Serial Publications, their gifts and exchanges for all 23 University libraries
1973-1994 Organized and headed the Multilingual Biblioservice adopted by the Canadian Government Policy of Multiculturalism at the National Library and Archives

Publications (major works):

Zielinska, Marie F. (1967). “The Library - College; a New Concept in Higher Education.” CACUL Newsletter/Nouvelles de l’ACBCU 1, no. 7 & 8 (June): 59–65.

Zielinska, Marie F. (1969). Bibliotherapy as a tool in mental therapy. [Montréal: s.n.].

Zielinska, Marie F. (1976). “Multiculturalism: the Idea behind the policy.” Canadian Library Journal 33, no. 3 (June): 223–225.

Zielinska, Marie (1976). “Libraries in the Canadian mosaic: multilingual biblioservice.” Canadian Library Journal 33, no. 5 (October): 441–445.

Zielinska, Marie F. (1980). “Public library services to Canadian ethnocultural communities: an overview.” Library Trends 29, no. 2 (Fall): 275–292.

Zielinska, Marie F., with Francis T. Kirkwood, ed. (1992). Multicultural librarianship: an international handbook. Műnchen: K.G. Sauer. (IFLA publications, 59).

Zielinska, Marie F. (1993). Multiculturalism and library services to ethnocultural communities: the Multilingual Biblioservice reprint collection. Le multiculturalisme et les services de bibliothèques aux communautés ethno-culturelles: la collection de tirés-à-part du Biblioservice multilingue. [Ottawa]: National Library of Canada.

Zielinska, Maria F. (1994). “Polish literature in exile.” MultiCultural review v.3, no.1 March: 12-14.
Zielinska, Marie F. (1998). Opowieść dla córki. Ottawa: [M. Zielinska].

Zielinska, Marie F. (2001). Celebrating 20 years: a concise history of the IFLA Section of Library Services to Multicultural Populations. [s.l.]: IFLA.

Zielinska, Marie F. (2000). “IFLA reports – IFLA’s Section on Library Services to Multicultural Populations celebrates its 20th anniversary.” IFLA journal 26, no. 4: 303.
Zielinska, Marie F. (2006). “Happy Birthday to Ottawa Public Library: a history of OPL’s first 100 years.” ELAN no. 40: 10-12.
Zielinska, Maria F. (2013). May you live in interesting times: memoirs of a centenarian (well, almost). Ottawa: Baico Publishing Inc.

Associations/Committees:

Canadian Library Association
Quebec Library Association
Ottawa-Hull Library Association
Ex Libris Association
Friends of the Ottawa Public Library
American Library Association
International Library Association
Polish Combatants’ Association
Association of Polish Engineers
National Chair of the Polish Engineers Assoc. Golden Anniversary celebrations
APEC’s Ladies Auxiliary
Canadian-Polish Congress Polish Saturday Schools, Montreal and Ottawa
Friends of the Catholic University in Lublin, Poland

Honours:

1985, 1986 Ontario Award for Commitment to Volunteerism
1989 Newly established ALA Leonard Wertheimer Award
1994 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal
1998 Polish Combatants‘ Association Golden Cross of Merit
2001 Association of Polish Engineers in Canada Merit Award
2001 International Federation of Library Associations, Section of Library Services to Multicultural Populations certificate for outstanding services and honorary membership
2001 Canadian-Polish Congress Golden Badge of Honor
2002 Republic of Poland Golden Cross of Merit
2008 Republic of Poland Knight’s Medal of Merit for 50 years for work for Polonia

Comments:

“Marie was a joy to work with and an inspiration. She created a wonderful work atmosphere for her staff, who came from many diverse backgrounds.”

From Marie’s retirement speeches: “We first met in the tower room of the University of Montreal. You were surrounded by a huge job- serials needing organizing. I remember your energy and enthusiasm in that situation you carried also throughout your years at NL [National Library]. You have been an inspiration to many libraries and have made a great contribution to libraries world-wide.”

“You have brought verve, dedication, vision and spirit to the National Library. You alone, with a number of specialists contributed to the development of the MBS [Multilingual Biblioservice] not only through collections and services but also through professional involvement in the wider world of libraries, culture and education.”

Benedikte Kragh-Schwartz, The Danish Central Library for Immigrant Literature: “Marie – we have known each other for more than 20 years – you have given me a good professional training and personal friendship, for which I cannot thank you enough. I have been so inspired by your Canadian work in MBS in Ottawa, as well as the many wonderful cheerful hours we spent together during conferences ….”

Sources:

Manning, Ralph W. et al. (2017). “A memory of Marie F. Zielinska, 1921-2016.” ELAN no. 61 (Spring): 7.
Marie Flora Zielinska's biography file