Appendix: Toronto

Campbell, H.C.

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Title

Appendix: Toronto

Author(s)

Campbell, H.C.

Issue Date

1965

Keyword(s)

Libraries and metropolitan areas

Abstract

The Public Libraries Act of Ontario, which applies to libraries in cities, towns and villages throughout the Province, provides the general management, regulation and control of Public Libraries in cities through a Public Library Board, composed of the Mayor of the City or a member of the City Council appointed by him as his representative, three persons appointed by the City Council and three by the Board of Education, each for a 3 -year period, and two by the Separate School Board, each for a 2 -year period. The dates of foundation for library boards in the Metropolitan Toronto area are as follows: 1883 Toronto 1945 York Township 1914 Western 1950 East York Township 1915 Mimico 1950 Etobicoke 1921 New Toronto 1955 North York Township 1922 Swansea 1955 Scarborough Township 1944 Leaside 1955 Forest Hill 1944 Long Branch The Toronto Public Library Board serving 680,000 residents out of more than 1,700,000 in the Metropolitan area maintains, in addition to the Central Library, 21 branches throughout the city, together with public libraries in 6 hospitals and more than a dozen other public institutions. Other municipalities maintain a total of 26 libraries, ranging in size from 3,000 to 170,000 volumes.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (12th : 1965)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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