Answer the following question: Read the bio below and try to give details on james bain -lrb- librarian -rrb- 's: - death place - death date - birth date - name - nationality - image - birth place - occupation Bio: james bain -lrb- august 2 , 1842 -- may 22 , 1908 -rrb- was a scottish-canadian bookseller , publisher , and librarian . born in london , england , his family emigrated to toronto when he was 6 years old . after completing his education at the toronto grammar school , he went to work for his father who was a stationer and bookseller . he was active in the publishing industry both in england and in canada , joining the firm john nimmo & son which later became nimmo & bain . he returned to canada in 1882 . after managing the fledgling canada publishing company , bain was selected in 1883 to become the first chief librarian of the toronto public library . he held this position until 1908 . as chief librarian , he was occupied with building both the library 's collection and new branches . acquiring the library 's first collection took some diplomacy on his part , since in the 1880s fiction was controversial . in the campaign to establish a free library , some of the opposition had argued against it on the grounds that taxes should n't be used to circulate novels . while the library did acquire novels , the bulk of the collection was more serious . he was particularly concerned with ensuring that the library 's collection include '' every work of any consequence '' in the fields of canadian history and literature . the first building space and book collection for the library came from the toronto mechanics ' institute , who had opened a subscription library in 1833 . the collection was supplemented by $ 15,000 worth of books that bain acquired on a trip to england in late 1883 . bain welcomed patrons to the first toronto public library in the mechanics ' institute in 1884 . two branches , northern and western , also opened that year , with eastern following in 1888 , dundas in 1889 and college in 1900 . in 1903 , bain secured carnegie funding to build a new central library -lrb- now the koffler student centre at the university of toronto -rrb- and three branches , yorkville , queen and lisgar , and riverdale...
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- death place is toronto , canada- death date is 22 may 1908- birth date is 02 august 1842- name is james bain- nationality is scottish-canadian- image is james bain jr.jpg- birth place is london , england- occupation is librarian