The Saskatchewan Library Association established the Mary Donaldson Memorial Lecture Series in May 1967. The lectures are given annually by leaders in the field of library science or related fields. While the lectures are designed primarily for librarians in the province, they are open to the public in the belief that library trustees and friends of the libraries will also find them thought-provoking and challenging.

LIST OF MARY DONALDSON MEMORIAL LECTURES

1968 Mary E. P. Henderson “Planning the Future by the Past”
1969 Frederick G. B. Hutchings “The Impact of William Morris”

1970 Alberta Letts “Provincial Library Service – Today and Tomorrow”
1971 Lura G. Currier “The Librarian in the Political Arena”
1972 Richard Blackwell “A British Beaver’s Eye View of the Book Trade”
1973 Carlyle King “Far Horizons, Man Alone: Landscape and Man in Saskatchewan Writing”
1974 Allan R. Turner “Bearing on the History of Saskatchewan”
1975 Roy B. Stokes “I Had Forgotten About the Wind”
1976 A.L. Karras “After Publication — Reaction”
1977 Bede Hubbard “The Humanist Imperative”
1978 Marion E. Gilroy “Pioneers! O Pioneers! The Genesis of Regional Libraries”
1979 Eli Mandel “Culture and Literacy: Contemporary and Canadian Writing”

1980 Donald C. Kerr “Moving Pictures, the Great Dream”
1981 Andreas Schroeder “Compensation for Authors, or the Search for the Elusive Red Jellybean”
1982 Frances Morrison “Saskatchewan Libraries: Remembering Dreams and Recalling the Past”
1983 Patrick Lane “The Liberal Vision and the Death of Culture”
1984 Emma LaRocque “Three Conventional Approaches to Native People in Society and in Literature”
1985 John Sawatsky “Librarians as Investigative Journalists”
1986 John Gray “Learning to be Dull: the Canadian Cultural Experience”
1987 Adrienne Clarkson “Canada: a Possible Vision”
1988 Mel Hurtig “Speech on Free Trade”
1989 Wes Fine Day “Education”

1990 Stephen Lewis “The Struggle for Literacy Abroad and at Home”
1991 Pierre Berton “Writing Narrative History”
1992 Barbara Clubb “Discovering That Immeasurable Quality”
1993 Jean Dirksen “The Joy of Empowerment: Library Leadership for The ’90′s
1994 Janet Lunn “The Power of Story”
1995 Bill Richardson “Truth be told: Coming Out as a Writer”
1996 Ben Wicks “Caring in a Technological Age”
1997 Sharon Butala “Lost in Cyberspace”
1998 Don Ching “Public Enterprise in Saskatchewan: The Ties that Bind”
1999 Mark Kingwell “Storage/Retrieval”

2000 Roy Bonisteel “Read Any Good Web Lately?”
2001 Roch Carrier “The National Library of Canada: tradition in the new millennium”
2002 Glen Sorestad “The Opening of Doors”
2003 Gail Bowen “Ruth Rendell and Me”
2004 Tim Wynne-Jones “This Place Is Totally…This Place, Libraries: Real Community In A Virtual World.”
2005 Arthur Black “The Wit and Whimsy of Arthur Black”
2006 Dan Yashinsky “Suddenly They Heard Footsteps: why we listen to told stories”
2007 Robert Sawyer “Science Fiction as a Mirror for Reality”
2008 Fred Kent “What if We Build Our Cities Around Places?”
2009 Maude Barlow “The Myth of Abundance: Canada and the Global Water Crisis”

2010 Dr. Vianne Timmons “Reading Together, Succeeding Together: The Importance of Family Literacy”