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 Photographic Essay on Edwardian Ontario Libraries. A short discussion about the value of historical photographs in revisiting turn-of-the-century public libraries presented to the Canadian Library Association library history meeting at Edmonton in June 1989.
It is always difficult to keep abreast of new publications, so this is a bibliographic project compiled by Lorne and Karen Bruce of selected monographs about Ontario's public libraries that have appeared since 1985 [the  Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for viewing]. Additional bibliographic topics will be developed for consultation to assist historical research, e.g. on the Ontario Library Review.
A speech, Public Libraries and the Information Age, delivered at Kitchener Public Library to mark Library Week in Ontario during October 1995.
Is the traditional role of the library in print culture threatened by the proliferation of electronic sources and the convergence of telecommunications and computers in worldwide networks? Listen to a CBC interview with Cross Country Checkup's host, Rex Murphy, broadcast on 19 March 1995 [recorded as a compressed .wav file].
A review of The Morton Years by Elizabeth Hulse published in 1995. This book chronicles the development of the Canadian Library Association during the first quarter century, 1946-71. During this period Elizabeth Homer Morton served as executive director and guided much of CLA's work and organization.
The Twentieth Century Notebook a compilation of the noteworthy events and people in Ontario's libraries from 1900-1999.
The Ontario's Public Libraries and Librarians, 1920-85 a synposis of Ontario library history in the short twentieth century.
A response to the amendments for the Ontario Public Library Act [1984] in Bill 109 (1997) that ultimately did not receive passage in the Ontario Legislature and was withdrawn at third reading.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY MOVEMENT IN ONTARIO, 1850-1930 | 
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