Temples of democracy : a history of public library development in Ontario, 1880-1920
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 [continued]âŠ
Wiseman, John A.
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Temples of democracy : a history of public library development in Ontario, 1880-1920. 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 [continued]âŠ
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