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Dr. Lyle Evans:Lyle Lillian Evelyn (Evans) King, known to most people as Lyle Evans, is responsible for the growth of school library services in Saskatchewan by her initiative, enthusiasm, and efforts to interest the school councils, chiefs, school principals, teachers, librarians and teachers in need improvement of library services in a school in the province. After regular school, Evans taught from 1930 to 1939 in both primary and secondary schools. She received a bachelor’s degree in 1940 from the University of Saskatchewan, BLS in 1942 at the University of Toronto, and MLS in 1952 at Columbia University. She worked in the Toronto Public Library, and then Graham-Eckes Private School in Palm Beach, Florida from 1942 to 1945. She returned to Saskatchewan in 1946 became the first head of school libraries in the province, and appointed the first in Canada. It was developed in a normal school course in organization, management and use of school libraries, which over time became part of the College of Education Program.

Lyle Evans was instrumental in the establishment of school libraries demonstration projects, with the first locally supported project in the school Kapar power unit № 28 in 1947 to more complicated Saskatchewan School Library Demonstration Project at the Columbia School of Yorkton. Her efforts ensured that in 1947-48 in the school curriculum includes a provision of school library services, including personnel, materials, programs and standards for the actual location for the library. She taught at the College of Education, assisting in the production of radio programs, films, books and displays, and was the author of numerous articles and pamphlets. In 1962 she was appointed professor at the College of Education, University of Saskatchewan, REGINA campus, where she was responsible for programs in the school library service until 1974.

Some of the other achievements of Evans’ fate of being president of Saskatchewan Library Association (1950/51), Chairman of the Library Association (CLA) Committee on Education for school libraries (1952), organized the first annual workshop on school library services in the region (1953), Chairman CLA youth section, the director of the American Association of School Libraries (1958-60), chairman of the organizing committee of Saskatchewan Association of School Librarians (SSLA), in 1959, board member (1961-63) then president (1969-70) of the Canadian School Library Association (CSLA) and Margaret B. Scott in CSLA laureate in 1978.