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 Photographic Essay on Edwardian Ontario Libraries. A short discussion about the value of historical
photographs in revisiting turn-of-the-century public libraries presented to the Canadian Library Association library history meeting at Edmonton in June 1989.
A speech, Public Libraries and the Information Age, delivered at Kitchener Public Library to mark Library
Week in Ontario during October 1995.
Is the traditional role of the library in print culture threatened by the proliferation of
electronic sources and the convergence of telecommunications and computers in worldwide networks? Listen to a CBC
interview with Cross Country Checkup's host, Rex Murphy, broadcast on 19 March 1995 [recorded as a compressed .wav file].
The Twentieth Century Notebook a compilation of the noteworthy events and
people in Ontario's libraries from 1900-1999.
A response to the amendments for the Ontario Public Library Act [1984] in Bill
109 (1997) that ultimately did not receive passage in the Ontario Legislature and never received third reading.
A presentation on Egerton Ryerson's public library system based in schools
that continued for a quarter century after 1850 and represented a first effort to provide tax-supported public libraries in Ontario [converted slide format]. Presented at OLA SuperConference Feb. 2007.
A presentation on Pre-Confederation Public Library Bills in Canada West
that failed to gain legislative approval, first in 1852 and then in 1866. These bills were indications that the concept of the municipal public library was gaining hold in Canada [converted slide format]. Presented at CLA 2007 at St. Johns.
A presentation on county and regional library systems in Ontario made at the Ontario Library Association's 2009 Super Conference.
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