Pennsylvania Carnegie Collections Online

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh have announced a joint digital archive of Andrew Carnegie ma...

Bookmobile Celebration

I learned through a Twitter message from the American Library Association's Library that there is going to be a National Bookmobile Da...

Presidential Libraries Exhibit

I usually participate in a couple of national level philatelic exhibits featuring parts of my collection of postal librariana each year. On...

Oldest Overdue Notice?

Any library that lends its books or other materials for use outside of the library must have a system for insuring the safe return of those ...

Lincoln and A Nation of Readers

John Hotchner, a nationally prominent philatelist and columnist for Linn's Stamp News , recently attacked the historical integrity of on...

Membership Law Libraries

After my post on "Surviving Membership Libraries" , David McFadden of the Leigh H. Taylor Law Library of the Southwestern Law Sc...

ALA's Book-buying Committee

The American Library Association appointed a Committee on Book-buying in 1903 (it's initial name was Committee on Relations...

Carnegie Corporation Centennial

The Carnegie Corporation of New York was created by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. It will be celebrating its centennial next year, and has alrea...

The Orphans' Nine Commandments

I have just completed reading The Orphans' Nine Commandments by William Roger Holman and I highly recommend this memoir of a retired li...

Dr. Richardson and Princeton

Each year I peruse the Dictionary of American Library Biography (DALB) and its two supplements to identify those librarians (and others) wh...

Surviving Membership Libraries

Benjamin Franklin referred to the Library Company of Philadelphia which he helped found in 1731 as “the mother of all North American subsc...

ilovelibraries.org

When the American Library Association established its ilovelibraies.org website, I thought it was a great idea. A national website aimed at ...

Library deltiology

Deltiology is the hobby of collecting and studying postcards. I have discussed library postcards before on this blog and often use postcard...

Library Black History

February is Black History Month. African Americans have made a significant contribution to the development of libraries in America. America...