Just Getting Started
eBook - ePub

Just Getting Started

Edmonton Public Library's First 100 Years, 1913-2013

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Just Getting Started

Edmonton Public Library's First 100 Years, 1913-2013

About this book

"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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword—Linda C. Cook
  8. 1 Without a library, is a city a city?
  9. 2 Permanence and maturity and pride
  10. 3 The richest man in the world
  11. 4 A repository for Edmonton-ness?
  12. 5 A big city negotiation
  13. 6 Above the liquor store and meat shop
  14. 7 Edmonton’s acropolis
  15. 8 "We’re bigger than our buildings"
  16. 9 Tough times in the "Rome of the West"
  17. 10 From the library to the street—and the legislature
  18. 11 A firecracker of a man
  19. 12 The violinist with a broom
  20. 13 A centre of culture
  21. 14 Gourlay’s error
  22. 15 Call me Bill
  23. 16 The first branch
  24. 17 That tiny Carnegie library on the hill
  25. 18 The fight against the fleshpots
  26. 19 Mid-century modern
  27. 20 Sex
  28. 21 The Carnegie of Edmonton
  29. 22 The dominion of the mall
  30. 23 You’re our expert. Build the library.
  31. 24 Big Brother in Edmonton
  32. 25 That brilliant, sunny Saturday afternoon
  33. 26 Then the Sixties happened
  34. 27 Phantom Edmonton
  35. 28 All it needed was a lava lamp
  36. 29 Something called "Alberta culture"
  37. 30 An off-season Santa Claus
  38. 31 Freedom of expression
  39. 32 Lougheed, Trudeau and the busiest library on the continent
  40. 33 Public libraries are going to die
  41. 34 Someone fabulous
  42. 35 Free to all
  43. 36 The girl from Bonnie Doon
  44. 37 What is the opposite of threadbare?
  45. 38 The mayor who changed everything
  46. 39 How to be an Edmontonian
  47. 40 A terrible shame to lose a reader
  48. 41 To launch a new generation of readers
  49. A Timeline of the Edmonton Public Library
  50. Notes
  51. Select Bibliography
  52. About the Author
  53. Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press