H. Parmelee Library Company

The library cover story for August on the Library History Buff website is about the H. Parmelee Library Company. The H. Parmelee Library Com...

Melvil Dewey's Library Notes

Library Notes was a quarterly publication established by Melvil Dewey's Library Bureau in 1886. The promotional flyer for Library Notes...

I Love My Library's History

I just became aware of a list of " 50 Reasons to Love Your Local Library ". I like number 33 which states: "Your local librar...

Little Lyrics for Librarians

Thanks to librariana collector extraordinaire Norman D. Stevens I obtained a copy of a reprint of a wonderful little publication entitled Li...

Gaylord's Charging Machine

At the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago last week I went through the hundreds of library vendor exhibits in the are...

Art and Architecture in Illinois Libraries

One of the highlights of my attendance at the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association this past weekend was an opportunity to see...

Charles Francis Gosnell, New York Librarian

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Charles Francis Gosnell ( 1909-1993). Gosnell was Librarian of the Queen College Library (193...

Free Public Libraries 160 Years

Tomorrow (July 7, 2009) will mark the 160th anniversary of the passage by the State of New Hampshire of the first general free public libra...

Countdown to ALA Chicago

Next weekend (July 11-12) I will be in Chicago for the Annual Conference of the American Library Association. I'm looking forward to the...

Oberlin's Card Catalog

After AL Direct mentioned the web page on The Library History Buff website dealing with Harvard's catalogue cards, I was contacted by E...