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(o/itui/pelA was one day in 1950, when a young, 43-year- old woman came before the newly created West Vancouver Memorial Library Board to be interviewed for the position of its Chief Librarian. During the crossfire of questions, opinions, and philosophies on libraries, our young candidate, alone against a board of her future employers, became troubled by some of the viewpoints expressed. After a passionate trade in perspectives, this librarian made her position very clear by forthrightly stating; “Then, I must refuse the position!” Her stand evidently unnerved a few Board members, for it was at that very moment they came to her defence and hired her. So, it came to be that this woman, Elizabeth Musto, was offered the position as the first Chief Librarian of the West Vancouver Memorial Library. srhaps this account captures the essential Elizabeth Musto. A principled woman who stood her ground, Mrs. Musto was a librarian