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Just getting started : Edmonton public library's first 100 years, 1913-2013 / Todd Babiak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Babiak, Todd, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Edmonton Public Library--History.
- Edmonton Public Library.
- Libraries--Alberta--Edmonton--History.
- Libraries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : Gutteridge Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "The contribution made by the Edmonton libraries to the sanity and support of the citizens cannot be estimated. No Annual Report can gauge things of this sort." -Annual Report of the Edmonton Public Library, 1931 The Edmonton Public Library turns 100 in 2013! Novelist, journalist, and Edmontonian Todd Babiak tells the story of EPL's birth and coming of age within the bustling narrative of the growth of city and province. Rich with anecdotes and historical photos, records of personal conversations, and tales of expeditions to branch libraries, Just Getting Started immerses readers in a personal journey to the heart of culture in one of Canada's biggest cities. Babiak's history is one-of-a-kind; it reads like a novel, mirroring the institution it commemorates. Edmontonians, librarians, politicians, and historians may glimpse themselves within these pages; all will see how vital a successful public library is to reflecting the needs and aims of a diverse population.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-88864-815-4
- OCLC:
- 863054199
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