Volume 9 (2017)

Brian Campbell hired/promoted me to Bindery Supervisor in 2000. As my boss he could be demanding, but was also very fair, and I like to think he got the best out of me. He respected my knowledge and allowed me to run the department as I saw fit, provided our quotas...

It was with great sadness that I—like many people in Vancouver and across the library community—learned of Brian Campbell’s passing. Brian was an extraordinary person and librarian who had a profound impact on the library community in Canada and on many of us as...

I met Brian Campbell in 2004 when I was working as his administrative assistant at Vancouver Public Library. When I left VPL to go to library school Brian agreed to be my mentor. Annette DeFaveri partly joked that I was Brian’s first grad student, and that was true—I...

When I think of Brian Campbell, I see a whirlwind of energy and determination. I first met him through an exchange of letters after he posted a brief notice in the Canadian Library Association’s newsletter, Feliciter, sometime in the late 1980s. He asked librarians to...

I first met Brian Campbell in 2001 in his office at Vancouver Public Library. Then a manager at the Vancouver Island Regional Library, I knew Brian mostly through glimpses of his legendary contributions to BCLA's Annual General Meetings. That first meeting had...

Brian Campbell was a long-time friend, neighbour, and colleague. Despite our many hours of BCLA committee meetings, my favourite memories of Brian are of being in the neighbourhood as we watched our kids grow up. In earlier years, we often took the same bus downtown...

In 1992, a group of librarians and other community activists in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland started meeting to talk about the internet and the importance of it being accessible to everyone. Brian Campbell was the instigator of the group—he recognized early on...