WI Library Hall of Fame to Induct 7 on Nov. 3

Ginny Moore Kruse, WI Library Hall of Fame Inductee As Chair of the Steering Committee of the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center , one of my ...

Houston's Carnegie Libraries

The postcard of the Carnegie Library at McKinney and Travis Sts. in Houston, TX shown above was the first stimulus for my closer look at Hou...

Dabney's Circulating Library, Salem, MA

I recently acquired a bookplate for Dabney's Circulating Library of Salem, Massachusetts. The library was located in the Salem Bookstore...

World's Largest Collection of Overdue Notices on Postal Cards?

The United States Post Office Department introduced postal cards with pre-printed postage in the United States in 1873. Libraries were quick...

Bookplate in a Book About Books

Bookplate collectors often remove bookplates from books for their collections. As a very modest collector of bookplates from institutional l...

Mystery Postcard, ALA Detroit Conference 1970

What does a postcard showing two young women smiling over a car or truck engine have to do with the American Library Association's Confe...

UN Anniversaries and Postal Librariana

Envelope showing one of the first stamps of the United Nations Special event envelope for dedication of Hammarskjold Library There are two u...

Reused Envelopes in WWII England

Envelope with label provided by Royal Naval War Libraries Back flap of RNWL label Envelope mailed by Univ. of WI Library in 1940 It is diffi...

Library of Congress Stereoview

Stereoviews are double images of a scene on a card that when viewed with a stereoscope appear to be three dimensional or in 3D. Several deca...

ALA's 135th Anniversary

One hundred and thirty five years ago today, 103 men and women assembled at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for the ...

ALA's Quasquicentennial, 2001

The 125th anniversary of the American Library Association might have gone entirely unnoticed by the library community except for the cover o...

ALA's Centennial, 1976

The American Library Association made a creditable effort in 1976 to celebrate "the big one", its 100th anniversary. The highlight...