Vickery Bowles

Vickery Bowles is the City Librarian at the Toronto Public Library. She took up the post in January 2015, after working for the library service for 32 years.

She is the board vice-chair for the Urban Libraries Council (ULC) based in Washington, D.C., a member of the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC), the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries (FOPL) and the Toronto Region Board of Trade Smart Cities Working Group.

In October 2019 she came under scrutiny for refusing to ban an opponent of transgender rights, Meghan Murphy, from speaking at Toronto Public Library.