Banned Books Buttons

Buttons and bumper stickers are ideal for conveying short succinct messages. Here are a few buttons that promote Banned Books Week which ...

American Archives Month 2009

On the way back from a wedding in New York I had the opportunity to stop and see the public library in Sandusky , Ohio. The library has an a...

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week is September 26 to October 3 this year. Banned Books Week began in 1982 to promote intellectual freedom and to make the p...

Margaret Hutchins, Reference Librarian

Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Margaret Hutchins (1884-1961). Hutchins was one of 305 individuals selected to be included in...

Libraries and Librarians in Children's Books

How librarians and libraries are depicted in the popular culture is a topic which sometimes gets those of in the library profession fired up...

Henry Stevens, Green Mountain Boy

Henry Stevens (1819-1886) was a native of Vermont who moved to London, England in 1845 and established a book business which helped build gr...

Happy Birthday National Library of China

The National Library of China (NLC) chose 09-09-09 to celebrate its 100th anniversary. I wonder why. I'm a big fan of libraries celebra...

North Carolina's Public Libraries

As a former employee of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, I was delighted when Amy Rudersdorf, director of the Digital...

Song of the Library Staff

Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911), Librarian of the Somerville (Massachusetts) Public Library from1898 to 1911, was also a popular poet. At the 1...

Library Card Sign-up Month

September is Library Card Sign-up Month and I thought this would be a good opportunity to promote the Library Card page on the Library Histo...