Library Extension in Ontario (Classic Reprint): Travelling Libraries and Reading Camps: Travelling Libraries and Reading Camps (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Explore how travelling libraries reached lumber and mining camps in Ontario, bringing books to workers and helping educate isolated communities. This historical look reveals a practical effort to extend public literacy beyond towns and cities.
The book collects letters, reports, and firsthand notes from the early 1900s, showing why leaders believed reading rooms in camps could lift morale and education. It highlights the collaboration between workers, volunteers, and government to test a new kind of library service.
- Learn the aims and challenges of introducing a travelling library to remote camps.
- See the kinds of support and skepticism that shaped the experiment.
- Understand how volunteers envisioned literature that appealed to workers, not just religious reading.
- Get a window into early public library policy debates and practical implementation.
Ideal for readers of history, public education, and the evolution of libraries, this edition offers insight into a noteworthy effort to bring reading to all corners of a province.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book analyzes the issues surrounding the need for a traveling library system to support the isolated and largely transient populations of miners and lumber workers in Ontario. The author stresses the need for these individuals to have the same access to libraries as those in towns and cities and discusses the various methods that could be used to create a system that works within the parameters of the seasonal work and lack of permanent addresses for these workers. The author also discusses the role of education in the lives of these workers, arguing that literacy is key to their social and economic advancement. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the labour history of Ontario, the history of libraries, adult literacy or the social and economic challenges faced by seasonal workers. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781332928644_0
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