Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography

The National Library of Canada has a website called Celebrating Women\’s Achievements. In the Women in Canadian Librarianship and Bibliography section, the National Library highlights \”10 women who have made significant contributions to the development of library services and bibliographical research in Canada\”.


One of these women was Newfoundland librarian Jessie Mifflen.


Jessie Mifflen\’s mandate was to visit and establish public libraries in various parts of the province. In the early days, her visits were made by dogteam, bush plane, small boat and coastal steamer. Many of her trips took days and, in some cases, weeks. However, when she retired in 1972 more than 50 new libriares had been established throughout the province.


You can read about all ten of these librarians here.

November 21, 2001 by Uncategorized 0

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