Carnegie Library Correspondence Destruction

This week is Preservation Week and the theme is again "Pass it On".  It is a theme that is very appropriate for library history a...

Exhibit of Public Library Photographs

Tulare County Free Library, Allensworth, CA by Robert Dawson "Public Library: An American Commons", an exhibit of public library p...

Ohio Traveling School Libraries

We're coming to the end of School Library Month and I thought this would be an appropriate time to do a post about school libraries.  A...

Library Book Perforating Device

Throughout the history of libraries they have taken steps to protect their collections from theft. Some early libraries actually chained the...

Molesworth Institute News

My appointment to the Molesworth Institute in 2009 by Norman D. Stevens , the Institute Director, was a distinctive honor for me. A major g...

Bookmobileana

National Bookmobile Day is next Wednesday, April 13, so I thought I would take this opportunity to highlight some bookmobileana. The item s...

Best Library Cover Story Ever

On May 8, 1952 two Spaniards from Bilbao, Spain sent a letter to the Los Angeles Public Library in hopes of winning a bet. The bet was based...

Augusta Baker, Master Storyteller

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Augusta Braxston Baker (1911-1998).  Baker began working at the New York Public Library (N...