Carnegie's First Academic Library

  Although Andrew Carnegie is most noted for his philanthropy as it relates to public library buildings, he also provided funding for the co...

Contagious Diseases and Library Books

In looking through my postal librariana collection for my previous post related to New York Public Library branch librarians, I came across...

NYPL Branch Librarians

I was recently contacted by Bob Sink about his new blog " NYPL Librarians ". As stated in the blog's banner: "This blog f...

LOC Philatelic Exhibit Receives Awards

I don't like to toot my own horn too often, but I was pretty pleased with myself when my philatelic exhibit at the St. Louis Stamp Expo ...

Innerpeffray Library, Scotland

The Innerpeffray Library in Crieff, Perthshire Scotland is Scotland's first free public lending library.  It describes itself as "...

First Catalog Cards

The first library catalog cards came about as the result of the repurposing of 18th century French playing cards. In 1789 the French revolut...

3 Exhibits About the Library of Congress

In an earlier post about my library history promotion activities last year, I noted that I had developed a philatelic exhibit about the Lib...

Hiram E. Deats, Philatelic Bibliophile

Hiram E. Deats (1870-1963) amassed one of the largest philatelic libraries in the world in the late 19th century and early 20th century. I r...

Frank Avery Hutchins, Wisconsin Library Pioneer

Today is the 160th anniversary of the birth of Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame member Frank Avery Hutchins (1851-1914). Hutchins was a leade...

Our History is Our Strength, Theresa West Elmendorf

March is National Women's History Month and the National Women's History Project is using the slogan "Our History is Our Stren...

Library Card Collections

I recently received as a gift to my librariana collection a library borrower's card for the Hales Corners Public Library in Hales Corn...

Morris vs Taube, Information Science Pioneers and Adversaries

Jack Cassius Morris and Mortimer Taube were two brilliant librarians and information science pioneers who were born less than three months a...

Dr. Seuss and the Geisel Library

Today is the 107th birthday of Theodor Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss. The postal librariana artifact which I have chosen to highlight this...