From the Editors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword: Public Libraries: A Very Short Personal History vii
4. Foreword: Public Library Beginnings in Saskatchewan xi
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. From the Editors xix
7. PART I BEGINNINGS, THE CHIEF LIBRARIANS AND THEIR TERMS
8. CHAPTER 1 REGINA CITIZENS PETITION FOR A FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY 1
9. CHAPTER 2 J. R. C. HONEYMAN (1908–1936) AND THE NEW LIBRARY IN ACTION 17
10. CHAPTER 3 THREE LIBRARIANS (1937–47) AND WORLD WAR II 45
11. CHAPTER 4 MARJORIE DUNLOP (1948–72), THE POSTWAR ERA, AND MOVING INTO THE FUTURE 65
12. CHAPTER 5 RON YEO (1972–88): A BOOKSELLER BECOMES CHIEF LIBRARIAN 85
13. CHAPTER 6 KEN JENSEN (1988–98): FINANCIAL RESTRAINT AND INCREASED SCRUTINY 105
14. CHAPTER 7 SANDY CAMERON (1999–2005): CUTBACKS AND CLOSURES 119
15. CHAPTER 8 JEFF BARBER (2005–PRESENT): A NEW DIRECTION 141
16. PART II THE LIBRARY AND HOW IT WORKS
17. CHAPTER 9 BEHIND THE SCENES 151
18. Chapter 10: Central Public Services, Part 1: Circulation, Information Services, Interlibrary Loan, Film and Audio Visual Services, and the RPL Film Theatre 163
19. Chapter 11: Central Public Services, Part 2: The History of RPL’s Children’s Services According to Dewey Decimal 191
20. Chapter 12: Central Public Services, Part 3: The Prairie History Room 209
21. CHAPTER 14 THE CENTRAL LIBRARY BUILDING 241
22. CHAPTER 15 SERVING NEIGHBOURHOODS: BRANCH LIBRARIES AND BOOKTRAILERS 253
23. CHAPTER 16 THE DUNLOP ART GALLERY 291
24. PART III TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE FUTURE
25. CONCLUSION THE REGINA PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW 325
26. AFTERWORD THE FUTURE OF THE REGINA PUBLIC LIBRARY 331
27. APPENDIX A BOARD MEMBERS: 1908 TO 2014 333
28. APPENDIX C A BRIEF HISTORY OF LIBRARIES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RPL 337
29. NOTES 343
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 369
31. CONTRIBUTORS 373
32. EDITORS 377
33. PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 378
34. INDEX 379