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The Carleton Library Series is the most enduring and significant initiative taken in the history of Canadian publishing where the editing, reprinting, and dissemination of documents important to the history of Canada is concerned. Initiated by Carleton University professor of English, R.L. McDougall, and a number of colleagues in disciplines cognate to English Language and Literature, the Series was intended to be a non-fiction counterpart to the New Canadian Library, a series dedicated to re-publication of classic works of Canadian literature in poetry and prose, begun by literary scholar Malcolm Ross. Like the NCL, the Carleton Library Series was first published by McClelland and Stewart, with the first title appearing in 1963. Over the next fifty years, well over 225 titles have appeared on a wide variety of subjects related to Canada’s past.
The early 1960s was a time when many university libraries remained closed to undergraduate students. With the appearance of Carleton Library Series volumes, for the first time important primary source documents became widely available, and in an affordable pocketbook-sized paperback format. For decades, Canadian university students, undergraduate and graduate alike, bought these volumes, and many tutorial and seminar discussions came to be generated by them at Canadian universities. The reprinted documents also facilitated the study of Canada at universities in the United States and abroad.
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