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TORY OF THE BOOK six universities across . ;ANADA PROJECT RESENTATION BY As Judy indicated, the project will not just cover "the book" but all )Y DONNELLY formats, including newspapers, maps, music, posters, as well as 2001 annual Get-Together of subjects of Canadian print cul- :x-Libris Association began ture: children's literature, fiction, a fascinating presentation by scientific works, cookbooks, text- r Donnelly, Project Manager books, etc. In essence the project e History of the Book in will investigate how those materi- ida project. als are "written, printed, pub- lished, distributed, sold, read and national five-year project will collected." It in three volumes in both ish and French covering the Judy then went on to outline iry of Canadian book and some of the topics that will be culture from the beginnings covered in each volume. The edi- e year 2000. tors must ensure that themes ini- tiated in earlier volumes be car- seeds of the project were ried on into later volumes and ted in the mid- 1990's during there must also be a geographical ings of Canadian scholars at and gender bal ance. Highlights 3ibliographical Society of from the proposed volume con- ida conferences and else- tents help give us a flavour of the •e who were monitoring other work. final history of the book pro- particularly in Great Britain, For instance Volume I (Beginnings ce, USA, and Australia. The to 1840) will look at, among other ding conference was held in topics, European publications ' at the National Library of about Canada and their circula- ida in which an editorial tion before the establishment of nittee was assembled under the printing press in 1751, litera- !ssors Patricia Fleming, cy and the origins of libraries, ersity of and Yvan and interactions between Native )nde, McGill University and a peoples and non-natives and their t proposal sent to SSHRCC. impact on manuscript and print ^cember 1999, $2.3 million culture. granted and in 2000 the pro- lot under way under the joint Volume 11 (1840-1918) will look rship of Fleming and more closely at who was publish- )nde and based, through the rs of individual volumes, at continuted on page 2 2

ELA's Annual Get-Together 2001: A Summary

ing and how, and technological regions and periods. Elaine Hoag GATS AND PUBLIC developments and legislation that of the National Library of Canada SECTOR LIBRARIES IN spread the print culture and is assisting with this. And finally influenced its reception. a bibliography of Canadian CANADA: A almanacs to 1950 is being pre- PRESENTATION BY HARRY Volume III (1918-2000), perhaps pared. CAMPBELL AND KEITH the most challenging of the three CROUCH because of the rapid changes in Judy ended her talk with an technology in the period (and the intriguing slide presentation on In the afternoon session, Harry lack of research), will cover such the iconography of the Canadian Campbell and Keith Crouch dealt diverse topics as censorship, the book (from early paintings and with the question of how the growth of libraries, and the prints), showing various people World Trade Organization (WTO) impact of social, demographic and reading, using or making books. could change the role of the public political events on print. Oral his- There were many questions and library sector in Canada through tories conducted with members of comments on her presentation the General Agreement on Trade the book trades and librarians indicating a strong interest in the in Services (GATS). They also dealt will form an important resource project. with how the Agreement on Trade- for the third volume. Related Aspects of Intellectual For further information on the Property Rights (TRIPS) could One of the aims of the project is project, and to keep up with place constraints on intellectual to help train the next generation developments, see the HBIC web- property arising from the public of history-of-the-book scholars in site: www.hbic.library.utoronto.ca library sector. Canada. The project has been able to hire post-doctoral and Judy Donnelly is a graduate of Harry Campbell led the audience graduate students to work on var- McMaster University and received through an understanding of the ious aspects. her MLS from the University of issues by examining passages Toronto in 1987. She has held a from a number of key documents. Electronic Resources will form a variety of librarian and informa- Harry referenced an article by crucial resource for all scholars tion research positions. In the Fiona Hunt entitled "WTO and the involved, and six databases are year 2000 she was appointed pro- Threat to Libraries," published in now in progress. One is a bibliog- ject manager and senior business the Progressive Librarian. He raphy of secondary sources on administrator of the five-year, pointed out that GATS, created in Canadian book history and a the- $2.3-million bilingual History of 1994 at the Uruguay Round, saurus of terms. the Book in Canada Project. She introduced trade in "services" to is stationed with the Project the WTO agenda with the aims of Another being created under Director, Professor Patricia deregulating services and provid- Professor Paul Aubin, is a bibliog- Fleming, at the Faculty of ing national treatment for foreign- raphy of Canadian textbooks. Information Studies, University of based companies. Under GATS Toronto. national treatment regulations, A bibliography of Canadian auc- the public library sector could be tion, publishers', booksellers' and Judy has herself done research threatened by challenges placed library catalogues will be comple- on the history of the book and is before the WTO dispute resolution mented by a Canadian book a co-compiler with Pat Fleming court by private information ser- trades index connecting names to and Anne Dondertman of an vices demanding equal financial firms, initially to 1840 and then ongoing bibliography of pre-1900 support or compensation from expanded to 1900. Canadian almanacs. Among other government for unfair trade prac- publications, she has published tices. A database of pre-1840 Canadian with Carl Spadoni A Publisher's imprints is being prepared, legacy: A Bibliography of The International Federation of extending the sort of work done McClelland & Stewart Imprints, Library Associations and by Pat Fleming (Upper Canadian 1906-1985, which appeared in Imprints 1801-1841: a 1994. continued on page 3 Bibliography (1988)) to other Sloan Winearl Continued from page 2 free access that Canadians have Code (subclass 96311) illustrates GATS and Public Sector to cultural information through the difficulty of defining library Libraries in Canada public service libraries. To be services for application to the excluded from GATS regulations, GATS situation. Institutions (IFLA) and the the public library sector must fall CLA has established a committee Canadian Library Association are under the GATS definition of a to communicate an effective two of a number of organizations provider of services in the "exer- library response to GATS and has that have positions on GATS. cise of government authority," engaged a lobbying firm to repre- Harry pointed to the "IFLA (Article 1:3c); and, not operate as sent library interests. CLA will Position on WTO Treaty a commercial or competitive coordinate a second phase study Negotiations," which was repro- enterprise. on the WTO Agreement on Trade duced in IFLA Journal 26, 2001. Related Intellectual Property It states that without tax support, The growing tendency for public Rights (TRIPS). It is necessary for the library's role as a democratic libraries to join with private all of us to support CLA and other institution—which makes avail- enterprise and for-profit informa- associations in their efforts to able the widest range of material tion providers due to funding investigate and lobby to ensure reflecting the diversity of society— pressures may be a threat to non- that public sector library service will be compromised. competitive and non-commercial can continue to reflect the public claims made by these services. interest of citizens. Article VI of GATS challenges The current "exempt status" of qualification requirements and the public library sector may be —John Arndt licensing, which could mean that threatened if American informa- professional qualifications for tion services lay charges before librarians, teachers and others the WTO dispute panel that pub- may be barriers to trade in ser- lic funding, fee charges, and pub- Ex Libris vices. IFLA's position is that lic-private partnerships are a libraries should be part of protec- competitive threat to them. If a Annual tions proposed for culture, and WTO dispute panel were to rule should be part of a separate that library services are commer- treaty which allows for cultural cial and not exempt from GATS C^C^f^°BOO o C^^ l^C^^' goods and services in internation- disciplines, the Canadian govern- al trade. ment would be faced with three choices: The Canadian Library Association, Monday in a Resolution passed at the CLA 1. Fund private providers equal to Conference in June, 2001, reiter- the public system; 2. November 4 ated its opposition to the GATS on Withdraw public services; the basis of the Agreement's lack 3. Face retaliation. 2002 of transparency, documentation and negative impact on the provi- Are public library services sion of public sector library exempt? Since GATS definitions debate. CLA urges the federal gov- are unclear, clear definitions ernment to release all GATS docu- must be found for terms which Stimulating... ments, to consult with Canadians apply to the public library sector about them, and to ensure that before the government submits • Speakers public sector libraries be exempt "library services" to GATS disci- • Program from GATS disciplines "as services plines, or before a challenge is delivered in the exercise of gov- presented to the WTO by a private • Fellowship ernment authority." organization. For library services to be excluded, terms such as With reference to the CLA docu- "competition" and "commercial" in ment, An Assessment of the relation to the public service Impact of the GATS on Policy, library sector must be defined. At Place and program to Programs, and Law Concerning present, there is no interpretation be announced. Public Sector Libraries, by Steven of the phrase "in exercise of gov- Shrybman, Keith Crouch spoke ernment authority" as it applies about the possible threat that the to services. An examination of the WTO GATS poses to the existing United Nations Classification 4

As I Saw It: To Afganistan With Tough Love

By Al Bowron

In one way our visit to Afghanistan was accidental. My wife and I were on an eight-month journey around the world, with no fixed itinerary. We got as far as Pakistan and had no intention of doing Afghanistan. Our intention was to fly directly to Teheran. However, severe frustration with various airlines in Lahore, overbooking, high cost and late night landings convinced us to go over- land on our own.

We had left Toronto in October, 1976, and travelled west. A pre-booked plane ticket had taken us to Singapore with stop-overs in Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand. In Bangkok I contracted a case of dysentery. In Singapore I was tenderly cared for by Arthur and Marianne Vespry. An English doctor was recommended, who got me on my feet in time to attend a meeting of the South- East Asian Libraries Association.

Our six weeks in India and Pakistan via bus, train, boat, pedicab, tonga and on foot is another story. January, 1977, found us in Peshawa, just east of the Afghan border, where it took us several days of tussles with the bureaucracy of both countries to obtain money, visas and tickets that got us on an unheated bus for Afghanistan.

After nine hours with a two-hour delay at the border, a spectacular trip through KANDANae To HERAT, JANUARY 1977. THE Bus CALLED "HELSINKI" the Khyber Pass, past mud-walled towns, ancient forts and dreary and ver- dant countryside, we were in Kabul at Soviet-built, cold and friendly. There schedules, menus etc. were, of course, -10 degrees C. The city looked haphaz- was a bar and a bathroom across the in Pashto, and unintelligible to us. Our ard but very busy. There was lots of hall. The doorman slept on the floor in Afghan visit became preoccupied with snow and ice. The people were hand- the lobby. Chicken Street featured fash- catching the right bus, eating digestible food, changing money, keeping warm some. A few women were fashionably ionable clothes, beautiful jewelry, car- dressed in sheep-skin coats with make- pets and handicrafts. There were super- and finding addresses. The tourist orga- up. Most, though, were invisible in markets and food aplenty, but mostly nization was a great help. burkhas. Later, on a city bus, the driver for tourists and unaffordable for most wouldn't start until my dear wife moved Afghanis. Of course, I had to visit the Kabul Public to the back of the bus with the other Library. I met the director. He sported a women. Other areas we visited included bazaars, smart suit and tie with a neatly trimmed museums, squares and mosques, which Our hotel, Khyber, was cavernous, were full of interest and people. We had continued on page 11 one big difficulty. The street signs, bus 5

How I Became A Librarian: Sue Bonsteel

I grew up on a farm near Simcoe, end of the month and she had for the next calendar year I . I went through high money to spend—her allocation worked like a slave during the school and business college in had not been used up. She heard week, then came home on week- Windsor, and then I worked for 12 the boss tear a strip off me for ends to a house where there was years at the Steel Company of something or other and promptly always a pair of jeans on the Canada (now Stelco in Hamilton). asked if I would be free to work in kitchen table waiting to be mend- During WW2, I chased orders for the public library during a holiday ed. The kids learned to cook, run nails, wire and screw products, weekend when she would be short the vacuum and the washing and when the boys came back, I of staff. The staff at that time con- machine, but they have never for- went back to my typewriter. sisted of four wonderful ladies given me for abandoning them who had been there forever. during that year. As for myself, my I soon left Stelco for a really high menopausal year went by in a paying job at the Student During that weekend, and subse- flurry of deadlines, presentations, Christian Movement in Toronto. quent weekends, I figured out discussions, and learning to drink After a year, when my mother how a catalogue worked and what beer at the CEEPS with the other died, I quit my job and spent a cards were for, and I had a great students, most of whom were the year with the last wave of veterans time throwing stuff out of the fil- age of my kids. I had a wonderful on campus studying at university ing cabinets. I discovered later time. in Hamilton. that this process is called "weed- The day I graduated, in May 1970, ing the vertical files." I was offered a job as reference I then went to New York City for a librarian at Stratford Public couple of years, recruiting stu- Shortly thereafter, John Parkhill, Library, the first one they had dents for work camps around the a classmate of my husband's at ever had. It was under the world for an organization run by Queen's, came visiting on his way library's new chief, Blake the World Council of Churches. back from teaching a course at McDougall. I figured out fast that After a couple of years, and after the brand new library school at the only thing a reference librari- having studied at Columbia in Western in London. He suggested an really needs is curiosity. When New York, I left the Big Apple and that I might like to check out the Blake left for Edmonton a couple married a country parson. school, so I applied and got in. I of years later. I was offered the job received a $300 grant from the as chief. After 10 seconds of medi- During the next eight years we Midwestern Regional Library tation, I accepted. produced four children. We had System for my fees. parishes in Stirling. Bethany and And that is how I became a librar- Oakville-Bronte, where we lived I took up residence in a boarding ian. for eight years. At the end of that house with wonderful people, and time my husband went to Probation Services and we were posted to Stratford.

By this time there were two kids in high school and two in elemen- t, and since probation officers then were paid on a level with clergy—and since we had to buy our first house—I had to fmd work. I spent about a year in a very good bookstore in Stratford being treated miserably by the owner.

One day, Stratford's chief librari- an, Miss Lois Thompson, came into the bookstore. It was near the Submitted by Mary Williamson n

How I Became A Librarian: Anne Nyland

Why and how did I become a reminded me that the 1920s was versity." For us, it is always "when librarian? a different world. Coal oil lamps we were at Queen's." They were were our lights until I was six, good years. Simple. I am a book addict, and at and finally with moving to 83, no amount of rehab will Brockville we had electricity. The big moment was the night change this thirst for books. before starting library school in Growing up on a farm outside the In our home, by the time you were Toronto. I remember sitting and village of Lyn in Eastern Ontario, six you were supposed to start dreaming that I was finally reach- I developed an insatiable desire thinking about what you were ing my goal. Library school and its for books. This desire has never going to be. Choices for a girl were practicality were a rude awaken- been slaked completely. very limited: secretarial work, ing. nursing or teaching. My mother Lyn had a miniscule library which had been, as my sister was, a Library school was a great "keep consisted of some shelves in the teacher. Even my favourite cousin, in shape" time. Lugging Mudge telephone office. I was allowed to Geraldine, was a teacher. I was and Dewey up and down those chose from part of one shelf. We resolutely opposed to such a steep stairs to the school and actually had a larger number of future. I resented my sister's doing that unforgettable triangle: books in our home than was bossiness, but just the same, library school to public library, to usual for the time. I tried re-read- thank goodness for her suggestion university library and back to ing those books, borrowing from that maybe I could be a librarian. library school. It was good prepa- neighbours... but this did not sat- This became my dream, replacing ration for county and regional isfy me. all other possibilities. library work in later years.

For plain reading, newspapers The Brockville library was under Retirement may not be wonderful, were a primary source. As good the guidance of a Cambridge grad- but the greatest compensation for Tories, we subscribed to the Mail uate, Paul Makepeace. As I fin- no longer living with books is the and Empire, as well as the ished grade 13 when I was 17, I treasure trove which is available Brockville newspaper. If my father spent an extra year taking extra to me at the Fish Creek branch of was not too tired, he read me the subjects at school and working the Calgary Public Library. What I bedtime story from the paper, without pay in the library every lacked as a child is now a feast of which was my introduction to afternoon. Knowing of my desire always changing possibilities. Beatrix Potter. And I discovered to be a librarian, Mr. Makepeace that if you are going to weep copi- had me in his office one afternoon ously over Sewell's Black Beauty, a week to explain some of the the best place to do so in on your requirements of the work and to father's lap. introduce me to Dewey classifica- tion. As soon as I could, I started read- ing the newspaper myself. This Mr. Makepeace was an inveterate had an amusing aftermath when cigarette smoker. His favourite our eight-year-old daughter was brand was Players, and his office Letters following in that tradition years was always in a complete fog of later at the time of the Profumo smoke. He loved books and more to scandals. Fortunately I overheard than that, he loved talking about her ask her sister, "What's a call them, to my great joy. the girl?" and had 10 seconds notice before she asked me. I don't think I considered that university in Editor newspapers were as scandal general was a means to achieve prone in the 1920s as they are my goal to be a librarian and did Welcome! today, although I suspect the not quickly develop a Queen's politicians were equally so. spirit. Today, my daughter and I laugh about the fact that other Thinking about early days has people say, "when we were at uni- •1

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Book Review

BOOK GUY: A LIBRARIAN IN THE PEACE

BY HOWARD OVEREND. VICTORIA, B.C., HORSDAL & SCHUBART, 2001. $18.95

Retired British Columbia librarian Howard Overend has produced a remarkable account of his career in the Peace River area, in his new book, The Book Guy, A Librarian in the Peace.

A 1951 University of Toronto Library Science graduate, Overend began his career as a children's librarian in the Fraser Valley. Soon after came two subsequent posts, one in 's Middlesex Country, the other back in Cranbrook, B.C. Then, in 1958, the author moved to Dawson Creek where he accept- ed a position with the Provincial Public Library Commission as head librarian at the Peace River Branch. There he remained for the next 14 years. Early in the book, the author pro- pery, Icy conditions prevail. The vides a captivating account of his author and his colleagues sustain A significant portion of this job first trip up the Alaska Highway several car accidents with result- involved delivering books to rural starting at Dawson Creek and ing injuries. One particularly per- school children scattered through- going as far north as Whitehorse. ilous Incident involved crossing a out the vast region of the Peace. (One of his passengers was a river made soft by a Chinook thaw This delivery circuit took three National Film Board scriptwriter in winter. Fortunately the van, weeks of travel quarterly in the gathering material for a forthcom- loaded with books, made it safely school year and covered a dis- ing film about the library service.) to the other side! tance of about 2000 miles. Fifty It is these periodical descriptive schools received and exchanged accounts of travel in this remote The author describes his work and 7000 children's books. landscape that are such a delight work environment with meticulous to read; the colours depicted are detail, including what appears to Whenever the author and his dri- especially vivid and memorable. be a complete roster of all his col- ver arrived at a school, they met leagues. Several of his colleagues, great enthusiasm. On one occa- These joyful scenic adventures co- such as his predecessor, receive sion, a young student shouted to exist with accounts of many seri- special attention. Overend seems the others The book guys are ous hazards. Steep winding pass- determined to extend his appreci- here!" The name stuck and later es, deep roadside ditches, thick ation to colleagues whenever pos became the title of this book. dust clouds from oncoming traffic, frigid winter weather with slip- continued on page 8 8

Continued from page 7 Book Guy: A Librarian In The Peace ! EX ti BKtS N EWS LEflF4K sible. The author has also wisely N . ANN qA included two maps! (See pages 50 and 51). Readers may wish to have bookmark handy, ready for frequent references to these pages! Readers may also wish to FOR Stitrf!AGA consult a Canadian Encylopedia. ! E AM S • "'• MU...SHOIT AND The book seems to end on a rather wistful note. For the author, the Peace was a special . Li place at a special time. And for t AL those of us who wish to develop a deeper awareness of this vast 1E2E 1$ Yo A TV country of ours and to appreciate A.. L Pv- $vA;P_T its varied development, this book should be very welcome. M0 MAL 1369rSEL —Marjorie Bender

20,20C1 b + tJ Nt" Errs C ,umb wriu"'T* - fZ% i..4%WA AS=-,, Books Of Interest...

Pandora's Handbag; adventures in the book world by Elizabeth Young. London, Serpent's Tail, 2001 A collection of insightful book criticism, which is very often funny as well as being good. As Young says "Books have never hurt me. People have." If you like reading, Book Review Writers read this. Wanted Stet: an editor's life by Diane Athill. Good writers wanted to write interesting London, Granta Books, 2001 book reviews. If you like to write and A candid memoir about nearly five decades read, we are looking for YOU. Give us of publishing and editing celebrated writers your 500 words about books written by such as Brian Moore, Mordicai Richler, Ex Libris members and/or books of Jean Rhys and V.S. Naipaul-a little gem. interest to members (books about libraries and librarians, and related sub- Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on jects such as publishing and informa- Paper by Nicholson Baker. New York, tion technology or retirement investing Random House, 2001 and travel). Barker is outraged that often preservation Inquiries: Sherrill Cheda 416-482- of newspapers, by microfilm, results in 5242 or [email protected] destruction of an invaluable archive. He tells a good story and he cares passionately about library materials. 0

Our President's Report By Harry Campbell activities. Your help in securing We need your input. new members in 2002 will be As we look back on the history of appreciated by our Membership We hope to establish local recruit- the ExLibris Association, we see a Committee. ing get-togethers in 2002. If you steady increase in cooperation can sponsor one in the fall in your between the Association and vari- Now members will be encouraged area, please inform our Publicity ous partners on the Canadian to make use of our ELA website, and Membership Committees. library scene. Particularly impor- hosted for the next two years by tant has been our projects with the Faculty of Information Studies the Canadian Library Association. at U of T. In 2004 we will assess EX LIBRIS ASSOCIATION We can now recall some success the value of the site to decide its EXECUTIVE AND BOARD future. Earlier indications were in another cooperative venture 2002 with the CLA, this time the pre- that younger members would be sentation of our joint W. Kaye interested in using it, along with Lamb Award to a Canadian library the more than 80 of our current Executive in 2002. We have also had contin- members who now use the uing cooperation with the OLA, Internet. Give our webmaster, Harry Campbell, President who permit us to exhibit at their Suzanne Sexty, your suggestions Super Conference, and who print for the site when it's launched in and distribute ExUbris News. May, 2002. Nancy Williamson, Vice- President/ President-Elect It is probably time to explore con- At their meeting in January, the tacts with other provincial special Board of Directors approved the Jean Weihs, Recording & plan for an ELA online archives library groups. We will be making Correspondence Secretary a presentation to the Friends of project. You can read more about Canadian Libraries (FOCAL) in it in this issue. As you can see, it Halifax in June. We hope to will depend on securing the need- Diane Henderson, Treasurer encourage new membership in the ed financial sponsorship. The Atlantic provinces, as we were Board will be meeting in the Katherine Packer, weeks ahead. Your suggestions for able to do in the Prairies at the Membership Secretary CLA meeting in Winnipeg last fall. continuing sponsorship are need- ed, and should be sent to Nancy Much could be done by our own Williamson, our Vice President Ann Schabas, Past President members in different ways to help and incoming President. (Acting) our Publicity Committee head Sherrill Cheda reach her goals. We The new members on the board know that more than 5000 librari- for 2002 are Merlyn Beeckmans, ans will retire in Canada in the Sherill Cheda, Peter Hajnal and Board next 10 years. We should be Mary Williamson. Do not hesitate John Arndt reaching them now and soliciting to contact them directly, or the Merlyn Beeckmans other members of the board. their input in our programs and Marjorie Bender Al Bowron Sherrill Cheda Paula De Ronde Peter Hajnal Mary Williamson Joan Winearls

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Ex-Libris Association Website Site Launch May 1, 2002

The Ex Libris Association is Members are invited to send their been changed. Eight hours later we launching its NEW WEBSITE May comments to: reached Herat, the closest city to the 1, 2002. Iranian border. We both had chest infec- ELA-eb@fis. utoronto. ca tions and didn't appreciate our unheat- It may be accessed at ed hotel room or the lack of hot water. http://www.exlibris.fis.utoronto.ca concerning the ELA Website since it is important to keep it a useful The next morning, February 1, we took In her Report to the ExLibris source of information that reflects the short journey to the border after the Association Board, webmaster the goals of the Association. hotel staff, the cab driver and even the Suzanne Sexty said: "In format bank tried to extract money above the the site attempts to show ELA's Continued from page 4 agreed price. They were unsuccessful, connection with past, present, As I Saw It: To Afganstan With but we left a Herat a bit disillusioned. and future ... through a combina- Tough Love However, we did have time to visit the tion of background, font style, and very beautiful local mosque. Next, a navigational aids. The back- walk across a vast no-man's land past moustache. We talked about his need ground (parchment style) and guards carrying automatic weapons, we for more resources (in the three lan- navigational aids on the HOME- entered Iran for a different set of adven- guages of the country) and the possibili- PAGE (illuminated books) suggest tures. ty of an exchange. I was served sweet a link to the past, while the font tea and biscuits. style (Anal, sans serif) suggests a Our eight days in Afghanistan were a bit forward or future-looking associa- of a struggle. We were unprepared for The next day we left for Kandahar—in tion." the cold and poverty, but the Afghans the wrong direction. Once we realized we met (only men, of course) were fine this, we returned to the city and solicit- Website pages will include: CON- people, proud and tolerant of strangers. ed the help of a student who spoke TACTS (Executive, Board, I often wonder what has happened to some English. Then we were on our way Committees); MEMBERSHIP those we met and to the urbane librari- with the Heart and Fayez transport (application form for membership); an of Kabul Public Library under Soviet company. The bus was unheated, HISTORY OF THE ASSOCIATION; invasion, the Taliban regime, and crowded and smoky. There was one PROJECTS (which will include American bombing. other woman, heavily veiled, who stayed information about the Archives in the bus for the long trip, even when project and the W.K. Lamb Award we all distributed ourselves over the for Service to Seniors); SHOPPING desert landscape for a pee. After a delay (various items for sale: books, to put chains on the wheels to better ELA t-shirts, etc); LINKS (to Ex Libris navigate the icy road, we reached selected web resources); EX LIB- Kandahar in the dark. RIS NEWS. Website Our stay in Kandahar was forgettable. The goals of the ELA website, Our room was heated by a wood stove May be accessed after based on a membership survey, and lit by one dim bulb. The staff was are to promote the Association, to May 1, 2002 friendly. We were awakened by a porter keep members informed of issues at 5:30 a.m., who lit the fire and served of concern, to supplement (but a breakfast of tea, fried eggs, and nan not replace) the existing services exlibris.fis.utoronto .ca with butter and jam. provided by the Association, to provide links to other web ser- A motor rickshaw got us to a new Please send comments vices that focus on library history busline, called Melagaro Transport. This about the website to including persons, institutions, vehicle, a gift of the Finnish govern- and associations of importance to ELA-web @fis. utoronto. ca ment, was luxurious and clean, with the understanding of libraries in heat and reclining seats. The destina- Canada. tion sign said "Helsinki" and had never 12

NEWS FLASH!!! Book Guy: A Librarian in the Peace

Ex Libris Is Proud To Howard Overend tells it how it was, ages ago, taking books Announce The Winners Of to appreciative readers in the back of beyond. Neither The First dust, nor mud, nor snow, nor cold could stay the true-grit W. KAYE LAMB AWARD librarians of the Public Library Commission's Peace River FOR SERVICE TO Branch from their appointed rounds. "An unexpected joy SENIORS to read," Alan Twigg, BC BookWorld. "Am really enjoying it," Jean Dirksen, FVRL. "... very interesting ... well writ- Submissions for the award were received from the Calgary Public ten," Margaret Rule, Middlesex County Library. Library and The Western Counties Regional Library in Yarmouth, 288 pages, softcover, photos, ISBN 0-92 0663-82-6. 0 Nova Scotia. TouchWood Editions, c2001. $18.95.

The services described in the applications of both organizations Horsdal & Schubart Publishers Ltd., Victoria, B.C. were judged to be so excellent distributed by Fitzhenry & Whiteside (eastern) and that the decision was made to Heritage House (western) recognize both as winners of the award for 2002. e-mail: [email protected] The submissions were reviewed by website: www.heritagehouse.ca Al Bowron and Merlyn Beeckmans for the Ex Libris Association and by Sylvia Crooks for the Canadian Library Association. Out Of Such Pain, Such Peace The awards will be formally pre- sented at the Awards Banquet Tall, pure, serene the mountains stand; during CLA's Halifax Conference Erect, in the proud integrity, the serried peaks sweep on: in June, 2002. That whoever watches could but guess The awful travail of their birth, The chaos and confusion, the tumult and upheaval, Which in the earth's deep bosom wrought Out of such pain, such peace.

Bewildered and oppressed, the war-scarred multitudes Inherit now the earth; Theirs now the chaos and confusion, Theirs now the tumult and upheaval— Who struggle on beneath the silent peaks: And whoever watches, can but trust That out of such travail they shall yet bring forth An order free, strong, just, serene That earth's own children must beget themselves Out of this very pain, their peace.

—,John Marshall Jasper National Park, 1941 13

ELA Archives Project: Where Do We go From Here?

By Nancy Williamson on a continuing basis. grant possibilities and there are some obvious ones (e.g. SSHRC), Since the Committee's report to At this point, we have no idea as but there are not many that fit the ELA Members in November, some to how much relevant archival Ex Libris profile. intensive work has been done and information already exists and the Archives Project has now this is an ongoing project. It will We are gathering data for grant reached a critical stage. not end with the initial develop- proposals, but we need your com- ment of the system. It will need to ments and suggestions. If you With expert advice, we now have a be continuously maintained and can help in any way, please con- clear plan for the design of the updated. tact: Nancy Williamson, Faculty of database. Data has been received Information Studies, University of from some ELA members, and The tentative budget for develop- Toronto, 140 St. George St., Committee members have ment is estimated at $15,000, to Toronto, Ont. M5S 3G6; tel: 416 searched intensively in CAIN (the be used for programming and 978-7079: fax: 416 971-1399; e- Canadian Archival Information other initial activities. The mail: [email protected]. Network). A record format has Committee is confident that it has been developed and a representa- found the best possible expertise tive sample of data has been pre- at the best possible cost but Ex pared. A tentative budget has Libris is not a wealthy organiza- been drawn up, and we have tion, so money must be sought access to technical experts, who from outside the association. We are ready to help us get the sys- have been exploring potential tem up and running.

Now, quite simply, we need your help in determining how we can bring the project to fruition. To proceed further, two additional components are essential to the WRITE TO THE Ex LIBRIS ASSOCIATION project - HUMAN SUPPORT AND FOR YOUR COPY OF: MONEY. Can you help us? First, Ex Libris is not a well THE MORTON YEARS; known organization, even in the broad library and information studies community, and we need THE CLA, 19464971 to establish credibility in the eyes of granting agencies. This means By Elizabeth Hulse ensuring that we have some well established organizations/institu- Published in 1995 with a forword by W. Kaye Lamb. tions behind us. 141 pages. The Committee is in the process of contacting major library and EACH COPY IS $5. information science organizations Please send order and payment to: across the country (e.g. CLA, Ex LIBRIs ASSOCIATION National Library Canada, National c/o Dean's Office Archives, provincial library associ- Faculty of Information Studies ations, information studies pro- University of Toronto grammes, etc.). They will be asked 140 St. George Street to give their endorsement and Toronto, ON M5S 3G6 support and to make suggestions as to ways and means of ensuring that the project can be sustained 14

In Memoriam Essays

DR. OLGA BERNICE Literature, and Health Sciences of awards and honours. In 1971, BISHOP Librarianship. she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Mount Dr. Olga B. Bishop, Professor Promoted to Professor in 1970, Allison University; in 1981, she Emeritus, Faculty of Information she took an active part in the was awarded the Marie Tremaine Studies, University of Toronto, activities of the Faculty of Library Medal from the Bibliographical died in London, ON, on January Science and chaired its important Society of Canada for outstanding 11, 2002, at the age of 90. Curriculum Committee from service to Canadian bibliography Although confined to a nursing 1970-1972, at a time when it was and for distinguished publication home, Olga's many friends switching from a one-year B.L.S. in that field; and in 1985 she received Christmas greetings from to a two-year M.L.S. degree pro- received the Alumni Recognition her only a short time before her gram. She retired from the Award for International Faculty of Library Science in 1977 death. Leadership in the Library with the rank of Professor Profession from the University of A native of Dover, NB, Olga Emeritus. Michigan. earned her B.A. and M.A. in histo- ry from Mount Allison University, Dr. Bishop was best known for An active member of her church a Bachelor of Public her distinguished achievements as in London, her friends will Administration from Carleton a bibliographer. In 1976, the remember Olga fondly for her tal- University, and her A.M.L.S. and Queen's Printer for Ontario pub- ents as a hostess, cook and expert PhD. in Library Science from the lished her bibliography, seamstress. University of Michigan, becoming Publications of the Government of the first Canadian woman to earn Ontario, 1867-1900. She —Brian Land this latter degree. Her Master's remained active in retirement and, Dean of the Faculty of Library thesis, "Publications of the in 1980, the University of Toronto Science, University of Toronto, Government of the Provinces of Press published her two-volume 1964-1972. Bibliography of Ontario History, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island 1867-1976; Cultural, Economic, and New Brunswick, 1758-1952", Political, Social, as part of its and her Doctoral thesis, Ontario Historical Studies Series. "Publications of the Government of the , 1841- In 1981, Pergamon Press pub- 1867" were published by the lished her work on "Canadian National Library of Canada and Official Publications". In 1984, immediately became invaluable her bibliography Publications of reference works for government the Province of and publications' specialists. of Great Britain relating to Upper In 1953, Olga joined the staff of Canada, 1791-1840, was pub- lished by the Ontario Ministry of the Library at the University of Citizenship and Culture. She also Western Ontario as a general edited three local histories of librarian and in 1954 became Medical Librarian at Western. In Westminster Township near London, ON. 1965, she was appointed to the faculty of the University of Toronto School of Library Science Active in the work of many profes- as Associate Professor where she sional associations, Dr. Bishop served as President of the initially taught courses in library administration, bibliography and Institute of Professional Librarians of Ontario, 1966-67; the Canadian reference, and special libraries. Association of Library Schools, Subsequently she also taught 1973-74; and the Bibliographical courses in Canadian Government Society of Canada, 1976-77. She Publications, Science Literature was also the recipient of a number for the Specialist, Bio-Medical 15 In Memoriam Essays

RUTH ELLEN KONRAD librarians in Canada to serve an JOHN TAYLOR PARKHILL entire county (Kent County in southwestern Ontario) by bookmo- Born in St. John, NB, John bile. Parkhill served as a lieutenant in the Canadian Army in WW2. He During this time she met Zygmunt was educated at Queen's, McGill, Karczmarzyk (later changed to Harvard, Simmons and Boston. He Konrad), who had escaped Poland taught English at Harvard and during the war. They were married Boston, as well as library science in 1950 and had nearly 40 years at the universities of Western and of intense devotion to one another. Dalhousie.

From 1953 until her retirement in After working in the US for several 1971, Ruth was Chief Librarian in years. Parkhill returned to Canada several locals in the western sub- in 1961 as head of the Central urbs of Toronto. At least a dozen Library of the Toronto Public of her staff continued to corre- Library, where he had the complex spond with her for the next 30 job of reorganizing the collection years. In Mississauga, a collection into subject departments. of Canadian history, which she started, is named after her. John was appointed Director of the Metropolitan Toronto Library Ruth Ellen (Bonwick) Konrad was Following her husband's death in Board in 1968. He took on the born in London, England, the mid- 1988, she moved to St. John's, tricky project of planning for the dle of three daughters of mission- Newfoundland. She became a building of the new Metro aries working in Seoul, Korea. She faithful member of the Reference Library. He worked with had a happy childhood in Seoul, Newfoundland Historical Society, the architect, Raymond Morijama, playing with Korean children in and contributed many articles to acquired staff and equipment and the lanes around their home. All the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland took care of many other preparato- her life she retained the ability to & Labrador. ry details. The building opened on speak Korean as a child would. time in 1977. For 13 years John Most things she enjoyed became did a remarkable job of guiding In 1922 she was sent to live at impossible for her after a stroke in and developing the early years of Llewellyn Hall (a home-away-from- the fall of 1988. She moved to the largest public library in home for the children of mission- Chancellor Park, where she was Canada. aries) in Oshawa, Ontario, to well cared for. She passed away in attend high school After gradua- November, 2001. Hers was a long In 1980, John had had enough tion she returned to Korea for a and wonderful life. and resigned his position for other year to teach school. challenges: writing, teaching and —Michael Rochester clearing up the affairs of the Ruth returned to Canada to Son of Ruth Ellen Konrad Niagara Regional Library. He took attend the University of Toronto. retirement in 1984. She made many lifelong friends during her years in the Annesley I will remember John as a profes- Hall residence of Victoria College. sional colleague, an impressive She described herself as "not a librarian and a personal friend. serious student," but got her BA in 1931. John Parkhill died peacefully, sur- rounded by his family, on After the divorce from her hus- February 23, 2002. band of 12 years, she was deter- mined to support herself, so she —Albert Bowron took her degree in Library Science at the University of Toronto, and in 1947 became one of the first Margery W. Trenholme died October 15, 2000 in her 87th year. Ms. Suzanne Sexty retired recently from the Queen Elizabeth Library, Memorial Trenholme received her BLS in 1946 from McGill University. She was University, St. John, Newfoundland. She started her library career at appointed librarian at the Law Library at Harvard University, but short- Memorial University in 1968 as head of the cataloguing department. In the ly after became librarian at the Commerce Library at McGill University. 1970's, she became Head of the Business Library at the University of Ms. Trenholme organized and established the library at the McGill Colorado. In the 1980's, she returned to the Queen Elizabeth Library at School for Graduate Nurses and Physiotherapists. In 1950, she Memorial as Government Documents Librarian and became also involved in became Chief Librarian at the Fraser-Hickson Institute interlibrary loan and library instruction programs. Active in the work of APLA, Suzanne received the APLA Merit Award because of her contributions to that Yvette Kagis died June 16, 2001. Ms. Kagis earned her degree in organization. library science while working at the Library in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Through the 1960's until she retired in 1976, Ms. Kagis Marie F. Zielinska ended her 20-year involvement last year in IFLA's Section worked at the University of Saskatchewan Library in Saskatoon, of Library Services to Multicultural Populations as its co-founder, member of Saskatchewan. the Standing Committee, chair and Special Adviser. A farewell party was held in her honor at the Satellite Meeting of the Section in Buffalo in August 2001 Violet Louise (Hulin) Coughlin, 95, passed away on December 29, and she had been bestowed , in recognition of her contribution, the title of 2001. Dr. Coughlin was Emeritus Professor and former Director of the Honorary member of the Section. She also received a gold medal from the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, McGill University. Polish-Canadian Congress for 40 years of community work and a Merit Award A native of Montreal, she received a BSc and High School Teaching in recognition of her long standing membership and contribution to the work Diploma in 1928; and a Bachelor of Library Science in 1938. Dr. and activities of the Association of Polish Engineers in Canada on the occasion Coughlin served as a librarian and lecturer at Royal Victoria College of its 60th anniversary. from 1941 becoming an Assistant Professor in 1957. In 1958, she received a Master's degree in Adult Education from Columbia University, and awarded a DLS in 1966 from the Faculty of Library Service at Columbia. Dr. Coughlin became director of the Graduate Dr. Norman Horrocks, Professor Emeritus, Dalhousie University, School of School of Library and Information Studies in 1970 a position she Library and Information Science received the American Library Association's retained until 1972. She retired as Emeritus Professor in 1975 and John Ames Humphrey/OCLC/Forest Press Award for a significant contribu- served for many years as an Associated Instructor at the Faculty of tion to international librarianship. Library Science, University of Toronto. Dr. Bertrum MacDonald , Director of the Dalhousie University, School of Mary Elizabeth Silverthorn (Mrs. Harvey Gibbs) died May 3, 2001. Library and Information Science, was award a Dibner Library Resident Mrs. Gibbs received a B.A. from the University of Alberta and B.S. and Scholar Fellowship by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. A.M. in Library Science from the University of Illinois. She was appointed Assistant Professor at the Library School University of Bernard Dumouchel , Director General of CISTI, was presented with the Toronto and retired as a Full Professor in 1969. 2001 Award for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). Nancy Louise Stadler (nee Wade) passed away January 11, 2002. She graduated from Queen's University in 1969 with a B.A. and from Larry Moore, OLA Executive Director, received The CLA Presidents Award for the College of Education at the University of Toronto. Mrs. Stadler "exemplary leadership extraordinary commitment and dedication, exquisite completed her Masters of Library Science at the University of Western style and flair and unique sensitivity in serving the Canadian library commu- Ontario in 1972. She began her career at the Pembroke Public Library, nity." (ACCESS, Winter 2002) and then worked at the Ottawa Public Library to 1977. She represent- ed Canada at the International Youth Library in Munich. For over 20 years, Mrs. Stadler served as Children's Librarian, Branch Head, and Ex Libris News would like to thank Elizabeth Ketchum for compiling this infor- Operational Manager for the Toronto Public Library System. mation. Contributions to Milestones from members to the Editor are always wel- come Albert Mate (1931-2001) passed away December 21, 2001. Mr. Mate joined the library at the University of Windsor in 1958. In the early 1960's he became Head of Reference. In 1967 he was Assistant Production: tario Librarian for Information Services. He served as University Librarian Ontario Library Association from 1980 until he left in January 1986 to become the Director of Ex LibrisNEWS Newsletter Committee: Libraries at Concordia University in Montreal. He remained in this Number 31 / Spring 2002 Marjorie Bender, Al Bowron, position for several years until III health forced him to retire. 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