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Raymond, Boris
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Dates of existence
1925 - 2013
History
Boris Raymond taught library science and sociology at Dalhousie University from 1974 until his retirement in 1991, when he was appointed as an honorary adjunct professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science. He was born in 1925 to Dmitry and Olga (Ostroumoff) Romanoff in Harbin, China, and emigrated to the United States in 1941. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he returned to University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an MA in sociology and an MLS (Master of Library Science). In 1964 he started work as a bibliographer at UC Berkley libraries, before moving to Canada to pursue an MA in history and employment as a serials librarian at the University of Manitoba. In 1974 he moved to Halifax and began teaching library science and sociology at Dalhousie University, while working on his doctorate at the University of Chicago, which he received in 1978. He died on 6 May 2013.