Local Library, Global Passport

by Boyer, J. Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780978160081
• ISBN10: 0978160088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-06
• Publisher: Blue Butterfly Book Pub Inc

Summary

This Story of one Canadian Town's Library reveals universal patterns in love for reading and battles for books as librarians, politicians, architects, educators, philanthropists and avid book readers mix it up for more than a century. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

A Portal to the World	p. x
Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Passport to a Larger World	p. 1
Books in the Bush	p. 18
Early Library Beginnings	p. 32
Saga of the Mechanics' Institute Library	p. 49
Democratizing the Bracebridge Library	p. 63
The Patron Saint of Libraries	p. 76
Seeking a Carnegie Library	p. 91
Building a Carnegie Library	p. 123
A Library through Times of War and Depression	p. 141
Everything Old is New Again	p. 193
Librarian Dynamics, Dynamic Librarians	p. 257
Shhh! Children in the Library	p. 285
The Library and the Schools	p. 304
Prisoners of the Library	p. 315
Always the Book, Never the Book	p. 325
A Library of the Future	p. 334
Credits	p. 344
Sources	p. 347
Notes	p. 351
Index	p. 354
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