St. Louis Mercantile Library Bookplate

The primary purpose of a bookplate is to indicate the ownership of the book in which it is located. Bookplates in books in institutional lib...

Library Book Boxes

 My library book box Milwaukee Public Library book boxes Book boxes in Sweden's library museum   Hans Krol with book boxes in...

Wayne Wiegand's Melvil Dewey Notes

Wayne Wiegand, noted library historian, is making available to an institution or an individual an invaluable library history research resour...

Mechanics Institute of San Francisco Cover

Last week I attended the stamp show of the American Philatelic Society in Columbus, Ohio. The APS annual show is the largest stamp show in t...

Charles Coffin Jewett, Pivotal Figure in American Librarianship

Michael H. Harris, writing in the Dictionary of American Library Biography (Libraries Unlimited, 1978), had this to say about Charles Coffi...

WWI Poster Stamps

The collecting of poster stamps was a well established hobby by the time World War I came about so it is not surprising that a set of these...

Chinese Postal Card Used As Catalog Card

When the Communists came to power in China after World War II they repurposed some things used by the previous government including this pre...

Bradbury Thompson, Library Stamp Designer

Three of my favorite library related postage stamps were designed by the same person, Bradbury Thompson (1911-1995) . This year is the 100th...

Happy Birthday H. M. UTLEY, Detroit Librarian

Today is the 175th anniversary of the birth of Henry Munson Utley (1836-1917), librarian of the Detroit Public Library (1885-1912), a founde...

Library Recipes

The July 1895 issue of Library Notes contained a compilation of "Library Recipes" for use by libraries in dealing with common pro...