Donald A. Redmond, n.d.: Credit Queen's Review, 1966.

b. 19 May 1922, Owosso, Michigan, USA; d. 22 Oct. 2014, Kingston, ON

1942 BSc Mount Allison University
1947 BLS McGill University
1950 MSLS University of Illinois

1943–44 chemist in plant research department of Shawinigan Chemicals Limited, Quebec
1945–46 post-graduate work at Mount Allison University
1948–49 librarian of the Canadian Book Centre, Halifax, NS
1949–60 head librarian at the Nova Scotia Technical College in Halifax
1957–58 on a leave of absence, he was a technical library adviser to the Ceylon Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research under the Colombo Plan (now Sri Lanka)
1959–60 on a leave of absence, he was Director of the Middle East Technical University Library, Ankara, Turkey
1961–65 Science and Engineering Librarian, then Acting Assistant Director of Libraries (Reader Services, 1964-65) University of Kansas
1965–66 Assistant Director of Reader Services, University of Kansas
1966–77 Chief Librarian, Queen’s University, Kingston
1977–87 Principal Librarian, Queen’s University

Redmond, Donald A. (1949). “Seven Months to Build a Library [Canadian Book Centre].” Canadian Library Association Bulletin 6, no. 3 (Nov.): 134–35.
Redmond, Donald A. (1950). “Some College Libraries of Canada’s Maritime Provinces: Selected Aspects.” MSLS thesis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, 1950.
Redmond, Donald A. (1950). “Five Canadian College Libraries.” College & Research Libraries 11, no. 4 (Oct.): 355–62.
Redmond, Donald A. (1954). “Curriculum and Library in Our Colleges.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 19, no. 1 (Fall): 5–7.
Redmond, Donald A. (1955). “Engineering Students and Their College Libraries.” Maritime Library Association Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Fall): 6–8.
Redmond, Donald A. (1960). Report on the Library of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, July 1959–June 1960. [Submitted to UNESCO and Middle East Technical University]
Redmond, Donald A., comp. (1970). B.S.J. 1946–69; A Cumulated Index to the Baker Street Journal Dedicated to the Study of Mr. Sherlock Holmes. New York: Baker Street Irregulars.
Redmond, Donald A. (1971). “What Happened in Hamilton? Or, Don’t Shoot the Piano Player, He’s Playing Our Song.” Canadian Library Journal 28, no. 2 (April): 100–103.
Donald A. Redmond, Michael P. Sinclair, and Elinore Brown (1972). “University Libraries and University Research.” College & Research Libraries, 33, no. 6 (Nov.): 447–53.
Redmond, Donald A., comp. (1973). A Checklist of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection in the Metropolitan Toronto Central Library. Toronto: The Library.
Redmond, Donald A. (1974). Library Administration: Some British Practice, Report on a Study Tour, 1973. Kingston, Ont.: [Douglas Library].
Redmond, Donald A. (1975). “Effects of Unionization on Personnel Management,” pp. 370–419. In Unions and the Management of University Libraries; Papers from a Workshop of the Canadian Association of College and University Libraries at the 1974 Canadian Library Association Conference at Winnipeg, Manitoba, ed. by Inglis F. Bell. Ottawa: Canadian Association of College and University Libraries.
Redmond, Donald A. (1975). Canadian Medical School Libraries: Analysis of Statistics, 1974–75. Kingston, Ont.: Douglas Library.
Redmond, Donald A. (1982). Sherlock Holmes, A Study in Sources. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Redmond, Donald A. (1989). The minutes of our Hundred Years: Calvary United Church, 1889–1989. Kingston, Ont.: Calvary United Church.
Redmond, Donald A. (1990). Sherlock Holmes among the Pirates: Copyright and Conan Doyle in America, 1890–1930. New York: Greenwood Press.
Bigelow, S. Tupper (1998). An Irregular Anglo-American Glossary of More or Less Unfamiliar Words, Terms and Phrases in the Sherlock Holmes Saga. 2nd ed. revised and extended by Donald A. Redmond and Peter Calamai. Shelburne, Ont.: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
Redmond, Donald A. (2003). The Index to Canadian Holmes, Volumes 1–25 (1973–2002). Shelburne, Ont: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.

Maritime Library Association (now Atlantic Provinces Library Association)
Canadian Library Association
American Library Association

Donald Redmond was a important voice in Atlantic Canada libraries during the 1950s as the editor the Maritime Library Association Bulletin for five years after 1952. He later became a notable Sherlock Holmes enthusiast by helping to organize the now famous Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library in the early 1970s. He was a long-time member of the New York Baker Street Irregulars and a noted bibliographer. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he headed Queen's University library for two terms during the introduction of computers and unions. He continued library work as Queen's Principal Librarian until retirement in 1987.
“After retiring at age 65, Don was able to devote time to another lifelong hobby – constructing Meccano toys, such as elaborate Ferris wheels and clocks which he exhibited at toy shows. A lovingly accurate model of a fire engine was displayed in his room at the nursing home where he spent his last months. Another prized model, recalling his Nova Scotia roots, was a life-sized Meccano lobster.” — Chris Redmond, Toronto Globe and Mail, 2015.

Canadian Who’s Who, 1990
Chris Redmond, Remembering Donald A. Redmond (2014) [accessed June 2024]
“Lives Lived: Donald A. Redmond, 92,” Toronto Globe and Mail, March 6, 2015.
Biography compiled by Lorne Bruce