The World's Most Valuable Library Postal Card

During World War I the price of United States government issued postal cards was increased from one cent to two cents to help raise revenue ...

Yale's Library Buildings

    I was the recent recipient of a copy of the book Yale Library Studies: Library Architecture at Yale edited by Geoffrey Little (Ya...

National Library Week 2011, A Storytelling Opportunity

The 2011 theme for National Library Week (April 10-16) is "Create your own story @ your library".  The theme, as it should be, is...

A Communist and the Minneapolis Public Library

On June 12, 1941, Helen Allison Winter, a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America, ran for a seat on the the board of ...

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, I thought I would feature one of my first day covers rela...

Furs for Books, Ohio's Coonskin Library

In 1803 the residents of the Town of Ames, Ohio entrusted an accumulation of animal furs to Samuel Brown for the purpose of acquiring a coll...

A Tribute to Ruth Brown on MLK Day

I came across the postcard above which shows the library of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi and it reminded me of Louise S. Robbins...

Happy 305th Birthday Ben Franklin

It's an interesting coincidence that Benjamin Franklin's 305th birthday falls on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day this year. It prompted ...

Biblioteksmuseet Boras, Sweden's Library History Museum

Sweden's library history museum, the Biblioteksmuseet in Boras, Sweden, was founded in 1989 under the leadership of the Swedish School o...

Vatican Bibliophilately

I've been collecting postage stamps that depict libraries, librarians, and related topics for more than 15 years.  George Eberhart coine...

Bookplates of the Los Angeles Public Library

I recently added The Bookplates of the Los Angeles Public Library by Joan L. West (Los Angeles Library Association, 1971) to my library his...

Book Wagon For Sale on eBay

As a proponent of a library history museum , my adrenalin got going pretty good when I came across an historic book wagon for sale on eBay ....

Parthenon Literary Society, WV Univ., 1874

The postal card above may be the second oldest overdue notice in existence (click  here to see the oldest).  It was mailed to a student by ...

Walter Lewis Brown, Buffalo Librarian

Walter Lewis Brown (1861-1931) played a significant role in the development of the Buffalo Public Library, now the Buffalo & Erie County...

Library Cover Stories

"Cover" is a philatelic term for an envelope, postal card, or similar postal artifact that has been sent through the mail (or is i...

Happy Birthday Justin Winsor, First President of ALA

Today is the 180th anniversary of the birth of Justin Winsor (1831-1897), President of the American Library Association from its founding in...

Celebrating Library History in 2011

I'm always on the look out for opportunities to celebrate library history. Anniversaries of important dates and events is obviously one ...