Woman's Building Library of 1893 Exposition

The Library Cover Story on the Library History Buff website for July features a postal card showing the Woman's Building of the the Wor...

Happy 150th William Coolidge Lane

A couple of my recent posts have dealt with the catalogue cards of the Harvard College Library. So it is timely and appropriate to wish a h...

Harvard's Catalogue Cards

I have an interest in catalog cards and card catalog cabinets that is reflected in both the Library History Buff Blog and the Library Histor...

Google Books and Library History Digitization

In an earlier post I discussed Google Books and its value to the library history buff and library historian. I also acknowledged that there...

Alma S. Jacobs, Montana Librarian

Hooray for Great Falls, Montana for dedicating their library plaza in the name of former public librarian Alma S. Jacobs (1916-1997). In a ...

Battle of the Catalog Cards

"The battle as to whether 32 or 33 size cards are preferable has been waged up one side and down the other, and after quantities of ora...

Erastus Swift Willcox, Unsung Hero

A story about the Peoria Public Library and its problem with expanding a branch library on a site previously occupied by a cemetery recently...

Library Bookbinders

One of the book related blogs that I follow is Bibliophemera which I discussed in a previous post . Recently Chuck Whiting, the author of ...

Chicago's Newberry Library

The Newberry Library is Chicago's other public library. It was established as a free public library in 1887 with funds from the estate...

Chicago's Great Public Library

The American Library Association will meet in Chicago on July 9-15, 2009. This year, as previously noted on the blog, will also mark the 10...