The Library Book
Subtitle: A History of Service to British Columbia
By: Dave Obee
Contributors: British Columbia Library Association
Publisher: British Columbia Library Association
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780969261490
Subjects: British Columbia Library Association; Biographies; Librarians; Histoire; Libraries; Bibliothèques; Bibliothécaires; Biography; History
Notes: "Foreword by Sarah Ellis. Introduction by Iona Campagnolo"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. 1786-1926. Working together for the common good; title: An alternative to saloons; title: The provincial library; title: Andrew Carnegie's three gifts; title: One vast circulating library; title: University of British Columbia Library; title: Two pioneers : E.O.S. Scholefield and Helen Gordon Stewart.; title: Pt. 2. 1927-1959. Libraries for the regions; title: The Great Depression; title: The War and its aftermath; title: The fabulous fifties; title: The firing of John Marshall.; title: Pt. 3. 1960-2011. A renewed push for sharing; title: The boom in campus libraries; title: Books, barcodes and budgets; title: Fighting for intellectual freedom; title: The technology tsunami; title: Libraries without walls.