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Just getting started : Edmonton Public Library's first 100 years, 1913-2013 /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edmonton, Alberta :
University of Alberta Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.