Temples of Democracy: A History of Public Library Development in Ontario, 1880-1920
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1989
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351 pp.
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University of Technology, Loughborough, United Kingdom
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Ph.D. Dissertation
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| Abstract |
The forty years from 1880 to 1920 were probably the most significant for public library development in Ontario, underscored by a marked deficiency of these institutions in the other Canadian provinces. This study explores the transition from a loose confederation of semi-independent "mechanics" institutes and a few free libraries to a recognizable province-wide system of public libraries that, after 1900, came under the watchful eye of a nascent professional association, the membership of which took a "missionary" approach to its work.
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