Just getting started : Edmonton Public Library's first 100 years, 1913-2013 / by Todd Babiak.

By:

Babiak, Todd, 1972- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780888648150
9780888647474
9780888647467

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

Z736 .J878 2013

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Contents:

Permanence and maturity and pride -- The richest man in the world -- A repository for Edmonton-ness? -- A big city negotiation -- Above the liquor store and meat shop -- Edmonton's acropolis -- "We're bigger than our buildings" -- Tough times in the "Rome of the West" -- From the library to the street -- and the legislature -- A firecracker of a man -- The violinist with a broom -- A centre of culture -- Gourlay's error -- Call me Bill -- The first branch -- That tiny Carnegie library on the hill -- The fight against the fleshpots -- Mid-century modern -- Sex -- The Carnegie of Edmonton -- The dominion of the mall -- You're our expert. Build the library. -- Big Brother in Edmonton -- That brilliant, sunny Saturday afternoon -- Then the Sixties happened -- Phantom Edmonton -- All it needed was a lava lamp -- Something called "Alberta culture" -- An off-season Santa Claus -- Freedom of expression -- Lougheed, Trudeau and the busiest library on the continent -- Public libraries are going to die -- Someone fabulous -- Free to all -- The girl from Bonnie Doon -- What is the opposite of threadbare? -- The mayor who changed everything -- How to be an Edmontonian -- A terrible shame to lose a reader -- To launch a new generation of readers -- A Timeline of the Edmonton Public Library.

Subject: Tells the story of the birth and coming of age of the Edmonton Public Library through anecdotes, historical photos, records of personal conversations, and tales of visits to branch libraries.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	Z736.36 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn900562353

Includes bibliographies and index.

Tells the story of the birth and coming of age of the Edmonton Public Library through anecdotes, historical photos, records of personal conversations, and tales of visits to branch libraries.

Without a library, is a city a city? -- Permanence and maturity and pride -- The richest man in the world -- A repository for Edmonton-ness? -- A big city negotiation -- Above the liquor store and meat shop -- Edmonton's acropolis -- "We're bigger than our buildings" -- Tough times in the "Rome of the West" -- From the library to the street -- and the legislature -- A firecracker of a man -- The violinist with a broom -- A centre of culture -- Gourlay's error -- Call me Bill -- The first branch -- That tiny Carnegie library on the hill -- The fight against the fleshpots -- Mid-century modern -- Sex -- The Carnegie of Edmonton -- The dominion of the mall -- You're our expert. Build the library. -- Big Brother in Edmonton -- That brilliant, sunny Saturday afternoon -- Then the Sixties happened -- Phantom Edmonton -- All it needed was a lava lamp -- Something called "Alberta culture" -- An off-season Santa Claus -- Freedom of expression -- Lougheed, Trudeau and the busiest library on the continent -- Public libraries are going to die -- Someone fabulous -- Free to all -- The girl from Bonnie Doon -- What is the opposite of threadbare? -- The mayor who changed everything -- How to be an Edmontonian -- A terrible shame to lose a reader -- To launch a new generation of readers -- A Timeline of the Edmonton Public Library.

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