Sarah Glassford

When Leddy Library’s archivist Sarah Glassford opened her mail last week, she found copies of her new book on Canadian women’s Second World War experiences, aptly titled Making the Best of It. Flipping through the pages she couldn’t help but notice parallels between wartime and the current COVID-19 pandemic — especially the significance of community to both.

There’s an old saying that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. Leddy Library’s new archivist, Sarah Glassford, knows that one person’s junk might also be the raw material that informs another person’s doctoral thesis.