Library Extension in Ontario (Classic Reprint): Travelling Libraries and Reading Camps - Couverture souple

Fitzpatrick, Alfred

 
9781332928644: Library Extension in Ontario (Classic Reprint): Travelling Libraries and Reading Camps

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Explore how travelling libraries reached lumber and mining camps in Ontario, bringing books to workers and helping educate isolated communities. This historical look reveals a practical effort to extend public literacy beyond towns and cities.

The book collects letters, reports, and firsthand notes from the early 1900s, showing why leaders believed reading rooms in camps could lift morale and education. It highlights the collaboration between workers, volunteers, and government to test a new kind of library service.


  • Learn the aims and challenges of introducing a travelling library to remote camps.

  • See the kinds of support and skepticism that shaped the experiment.

  • Understand how volunteers envisioned literature that appealed to workers, not just religious reading.

  • Get a window into early public library policy debates and practical implementation.



Ideal for readers of history, public education, and the evolution of libraries, this edition offers insight into a noteworthy effort to bring reading to all corners of a province.

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9780267423743: Library Extension in Ontario: Travelling Libraries and Reading Camps (Classic Reprint)

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0267423748 ISBN 13 :  9780267423743
Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018
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