Saskatoon public library gets new, modern reference room in 1956

Activate your Online Access NowVisitors will be given an opportunity to see the ultra-modern reference room, added last year, the auditorium, back in use after a number of years; reading rooms, office, and all section of the building.entire Twenty-Third Street buildingThe city health offices were housed in the upper storey room the time it was built in 1929 until May of this year. Remodelling has been completed and equipment and books are in place.

It’s a far cry from 1913 when in a basement room on Second Avenue, the Saskatoon Public Library opened with a total book stock of 900 volumes. Nowadays more than 80,000 are in circulation, there are 4,400 in the reference department and circulation in 1955 was 349,711The new development at the main building, is the pride and joy of the chief librarian and his staff.

For the first time, there is a proper cataloguing room. Previously the staff for this section was crowded into a small office on the main floor. The children’s section includes a spacious story room. Community groups will be able to , with its stage and accommodation for an audience of 150. The reading room, now in quarters formerly housing the children’s section, is bright and airy, and there is accommodation in the basement for stack rooms.Article contentCheck out our entire collectionWhat moment in Saskatoon’s history from August would you like us to revisit next? Send suggestions to

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