Once There Was and Once There Was Not

Abstract

I did not know Mary Donaldson. All I know about her is what I have read in the forward to Survival of The Imagination, the Saskatchewan Library Association's publication of the first twenty-five lectures given in her name. She seems to have been a person willing to work long and hard for the love of, and the belief in, the importance of libraries to everyone in the province. Bless her. It is an honour to be speaking in her name.