That All May Read, NLS turns 80

The National Library Service for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped (NLS) celebrates its 80th anniversary on March 3rd. The motto fo...

First Countywide Public Libraries

At a recent postcard show I came across a postcard (shown here) depicting the Brumback Library in Van Wert, Ohio . The caption on the back o...

Carlisle Indian School Library

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania existed from 1879 to 1918. It was founded by Captain Richard Henry Pratt and...

Abraham Harley Cassel - Dunkard Bibliophile

"The largest private collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century Pennsylvania Germaniana during the last century was Abraham Harley...

Happy 150th Birthday Henry E. Legler

Henry E. Legler (1861-1917) earned a national reputation as a public library leader while serving as Secretary of the Wisconsin Free Library...

My Favorite Individual Library History Webpages

On a previous post I identified my selection of the top 10 library history websites. Those websites were examples of sites that featured st...

I Love Library Buttons

Valentine's Day seems like an appropriate occasion to highlight some of my library buttons with a love theme.  I have a large collection...

Happy 120th Birthday Wisconsin Library Association

  Today marks the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA). On February 11, 1891, a group of individual...

A Library History Buff Miscellany

On the occasion of my 300th post to the Library History Buff Blog I have selected a group of previous posts to highlight. All 300 posts have...

Books by Mail in Maine 1929

This brochure was distributed by the Maine State Library in Augusta, Maine about 1929.  It  provides information about the services of the ...

Ronald Reagan and the Dixon Public Library

Today is the centennial of the birth of Ronald Reagan, and there will be activities throughout the year to celebrate this occasion. Dixon, I...

Early Children's Rooms in Public Libraries

We take separate children's rooms in public libraries for granted today, but that was not the case before the 1890s. It was in that deca...

Lutie Stearns, Wisconsin's Stuttering Librarian

The inspirational story about King George VI and his struggles with stuttering as told in the movie The King's Speech has brought a gre...