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"Children who read good books usually behave better, and have good manners": The Founding of the Notre Dame de Grace Library for Boys and Girls, Montreal, 1943
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"Children who read good books usually behave better, and have good manners": The Founding of the Notre Dame de Grace Library for Boys and Girls, Montreal, 1943
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The founding of the Notre-Dame-de-Grace (NDG) Library for Boys and Girls in Montreal in 1943 provides a unique and interesting case study in Canadian library development. The author points out that it was founded and operated by an umbrella group of over forty local community organizations, known as the NDG Community Council, using money raised locally, initially to combat a perceived rise in juvenile delinquency during the Second World War. The arguments made in favor of the library by the general public and the organizers were widely reported in the community newspaper, The Monitor. The author concludes that the documentary record provides a rare account of the beliefs held about the efficacy of reading and libraries to shape children, a neglected aspect of children's library development in Canadian historiography.
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Library Trends
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Vol. 55
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no. 3
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597-608
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Winter 2007
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en
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Lyons, Chris. “‘Children Who Read Good Books Usually Behave Better, and Have Good Manners’: The Founding of the Notre Dame de Grace Library for Boys and Girls, Montreal, 1943.” Library Trends Vol. 55, no. 3 (Winter 2007): 597–608.
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