Katharine Sharp and the Lake Placid Club

The "Library Cover Story" for June on the Library History Buff website involves Katharine Sharp and the Lake Placid Club. A bookpl...

International Museum Day

May 18 is International Museum Day . This is an appropriate occasion to raise the topic of library museums once more. This is a topic I have...

US Libraries on Stamps

Postage stamps are devices for indicating prepayment of a fee for postal services. Great Britain issued the first adhesive postage stamp in ...

National Postcard Week

This is National Postcard Week. Diana Dretske, collections coordinator for the Lake County Discovery Museum in Wauconda, Illinois, provides ...

Happy 100th Edwin Castagna!

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edwin Catagna (1909-1983), a notable 20th century American library leader. I've used the...