Tailspin Tommy, Hal Forrest, and Copyright

At the urgings of Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford all of the functions of copyright for the United States were centralized in...

Dollars & Sense for South Carolina Public Libraries

Paul Nelson passed along the good news that the South Carolina State Legislature overrode a veto by Governor Sanford of almost $5 million i...

Seattle and Andrew Carnegie

Seattle was one of the fortunate communites that received grants from Andrew Carnegie for its main public library building and multiple bra...

Going Postal With The British

At the request of Renae Satterly, the Editor of the Library & Information History Group Newsletter , I agreed to do write a brief articl...

William Howard Brett (1846-1918), Cleveland Librarian

In August 1918 Cleveland Public Library Librarian William Brett was killed by a drunken driver while trying to board a s...

Mary P. Aiken (1927-2010) and Project Little Kids

Hands down, the most creative and innovative segment of the library profession is public library children's librarians. In my career I h...

William F. Poole,"The Harvard Book", and the ALA Scrapbook of 1876

The government issued postal card featured in this post has multiple points of interest for a collector of postal librariana and library hi...

B. F. Stevens & Brown, American Library & Literary Agents

B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Stevens (1833-1902) and his older brother Henry Stevens (1819-1886) of Barnet, Vermont both left the ...

Another Carnegie for Sale - Rockport, MA

The libraries that Andrew Carnegie helped fund are more visible on the web these days. For the most part that's a good thing. I'm c...

Hard Times at the Charlotte Public Library

The Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County as reported in the news is facing hard times as are many of our nation's librar...

The Lusitania and Books for the Library of Congress

On May 7, 1915 the British steamship Lusitania was torpedoed by a German U-Boat off the coast of Ireland on its return trip from the United...

Librarian's Book of Lists

I've just finished reading a nifty new book which I highly recommend. It is The Librarian's Book of Lists by George M. Eberhart, ed...

Quirky Library History Buff Blog receives recognition

Salem Press has announced its Library Blog Awards , and I'm pleased to report that the Library History Buff Blog received the second pla...

Carnegie Library for Rent

I reported earlier on a historic Carnegie library building for sale in Duluth, Minnesota. Now there may be an even better opportunity to be...