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Though Sheila Egoff was born in Maine, she was educated in Ontario. She
received a diploma in librarianship in 1939 from the University of
Toronto, and returned for a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947. A year later,
she finished her education with a Diploma in Librarianship from the
University of London. After graduation she worked in the Toronto Public
library, and became the first curator of the Osborne Collection of early
children's books. It was while working in the Toronto Public Library that
she met Lillian
Smith. After returning to Canada, she also became an Associate
Professor at the School of Librarianship in the University of British
Columbia. She has written numerous articles on library services to
children. One of her most well known publications is The Republic of
Childhood, a comprehensive study of Canadian Children's
Literature. Sheila Egoff, the Professor Emeritus with the School of
Librarianship at the University of British Columbia, officially retired in
1983, but has been cataloguing UBC's collection of early and rare
children's books. In 1987 the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
award was established, and is awarded for the best children's book by a
writer who has lived in British Columbia for three of the previous five
years.
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