LISNews: Librarian News

Andrew Porteus writes \"The
Casino Niagara Cares foundation recently donated
$50,000 to the Niagara Falls (Ont.) Public Library to
establish the \"Casino Niagara Cares Regional
Heritage Collection.\"

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This money is intended to purchase Niagara related
material that is not currently available in any of the
Niagara Regional libraries. The First purchases
include \"A Geographical View of the Province of Upper
Canada and Promiscuous Remarks on the
Government, in two parts, with an appendix containing
a complete description of the Niagara Falls and
remarks relative to the situation of the inhabitants
respecting the war [of 1812] and a concise history of its
progress to the present day\" (1813) by M. Smith and
\"The Life and Military Services of Lieut.-General Winfield
Scott, including his brilliant achievements in the War of
1812, in the Mexican War, and the pending War for the
Union\" (1861) by Edward Mansfield. \"