Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Bulletin of the Toronto Public Library
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Annual Report - Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Annual Report - Toronto Public Library
Author: Toronto Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Annual Report of the Providence Public Library
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Providence (R.I.)
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin for the Providence Public Library ...
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
George Herbert Locke and the Transformation of Toronto Public Library, 1908-1937
Author: Lorne D. BrucePublisher: Libraries Today
ISBN: 0986666629
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
George H. Locke, chief librarian of the Toronto Public Library between 1908 and 1937, was Canada’s foremost library administrator in the first part of the twentieth century. During this period, free public libraries and librarianship in Ontario expanded rapidly due to the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie, improvements in library education, and the influence of American library services. Locke was closely associated with all these trends; however, his outlook was primarily guided by his Methodist upbringing, the Anglo-Canadian academic tradition of British Idealism, and his association with John Dewey’s contribution to American progressive education. These religious and intellectual strands encouraged personal action to improve social conditions. As director of Toronto’s libraries, he brought his ambitious ideas to bear in many ways: the building of neighbourhood branches, library service for children, formal education for librarians, suitable reading for immigrants and young adults, and the idea of the public library as a municipal partner in the self-education of adult Canadians. By 1930, Toronto’s public library system was recognized as one of the best in North America and George Locke’s reputation as a visionary leader had vaulted him to the Presidency of the American Library Association. Although he had created a large organization that might have succumbed to bureaucratic practices and formalized centralization, Locke resisted this development. He remained faithful to his moral, intellectual, and humanistic values acquired during his early schooling and university career. For Locke, libraries and librarians were less about organization and formal duties. Both needed to be faithful to the main principle of serving the public interest by delivering knowledge and by guiding individual self-development through experiential learning and transcendent ideals.
Bulletin of the Grand Rapids Public Library
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Providence Public Library (R.I.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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