Just getting started : Edmonton Public Library's first 100 years, 1913-2013 /
by Todd Babiak.
- Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 359 pages) : illustrations, photographs
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
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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