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\nAbstract  \nThis paper traces the century-long history of a library that has served teacher preparation programs in Calgary, Alberta, since 1909. It looks at how this library’s role and collections adapted to shifting notions of what constituted good teacher education and changing economic circumstances. In recounting this history, the paper examines the historical circumstances that created a separate education library at the University of Calgary and how issues of group and professional identity contributed to its continuing existence. The various themes which emerge may be common to many North American education libraries.  \nIntroduction  \nThe Doucette Library of Teaching Resources at the University of Calgary is the direct successor of the library established to support teacher preparation in the province of Alberta one hundred years ago. Since its origins in 1909, the library has borne many names, been housed in at least seven locations, and had varying mandates in response to changing philosophies about teaching and teacher education. Its history reveals how issues of group identity played a role in determining that a separate education library exists on the Calgary campus. Its story also documents the struggle librarians faced in achieving professional recognition in an academic community, as well as the unique challenges of those particular librarians responsible for curriculum materials collections.  \nThe Normal School Library  \nIn 1905 Alberta obtained official status as a province within Canada, thereby acquiring total responsibility for all matters in education. Its two most populous cities vied to become the capital, and when Edmonton both won that honor and also became the site of the province’s first university, Calgary had to settle for the consolation prize of the provincial normal school. Educating teachers in singlepurpose institutions had been the tradition in both the United States and Canada for almost a century, since the idea of training teachers in “the norm”or “the right way” of teaching was imported from Europe. 1 In 1908 a large new normal school building opened in Calgary, and given that Calgary’s population  \nat the time construction began was little over 21,000, its grandeur exuded civic optimism about future growth. On the second floor of the new school was a large space designated for a library.  \nIn 1909 the library was established when Miss Helen Mason was given the combined position of librarian and stenographer.2 She did not stay long and was followed by a succession of women who played the role of both secretaries and keepers ofthe library, and who did not appear to have had formal library training. The lack of professional qualifications is not surprising since no Canadian universities offered library degrees at the time, although short-term coursework was available far away in Toronto and Montreal.3 Calgary’s first public librarian, appointed in 1911, was trained by the older apprenticeship method. In contrast, one study reveals that at least some of the normal school libraries in the American west were able to attract people with library degrees, because library education was further advanced in the United States.4 It was not until 1924, when Isabella Currie took over the position of librarian for the Calgary Normal School, that secretarial responsibilities were removed. Although she did not have a library degree, Currie had taken summer school courses in librarianship at a couple of American universities. 5  \nTo understand the nature and role of the library that developed, one must look at the nature of the Normal School program. We learn something about its objectives from the experience of one of its earliest  \nstudents, Georgina Thomson, who later went on to an illustrious career at the Calgary Public Library. 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