Football Postal Librariana, 1892

On Dec. 1, 1892 a person who signed his name as  "THE" sent a postal card designed to acknowledge gifts to the Library of the Lela...

Charles Williamson and His Report on Training for Library Service

Today is the 135th anniversary of the birth of Charles Clarence Williamson (1877-1965) who conducted a study of the training for library ser...

The Indelible Rubber Stamps of Libraries

In 1982 the Design and Exhibits staff at the Dallas Public Library put on an exhibit titled "Their Indelible Mark: Rubber Stamps and Li...

The Best Library Postcard Sites on the Internet

Selected postcards from my collection In my  previous post  I discussed some of the World's Largest Library Postcard Collections. Of tho...

World's Largest Library Postcard Collections

  The collecting of picture postcards sometimes called deltiology has been a popular activity for more than a century. Because of the vast v...

The Libraries of Louvain Revisited

"On the night of 25 August 1914, around one or two o'clock in the morning, several fires broke out in the medieval Belgian city of ...

The Bibliosmiles Revisited

I wrote an earlier post about Charles Lummis and "The Bibliosmiles", an organization designed by group of librarians who probably...

Camp Merritt (NJ) Libraries in WWI

During World War I the American Library Association as part of its Library War Service operated a camp library and a hospital library at Cam...

The Public Libraries of Providence, RI

  Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Clarence Edgar Sherman (1887-1974) who was associated with the Providence Public Library f...

Huntington (WV) Public Library Postcard

This vintage library postcard showing the Huntington (WV) Public Library has lots of appeal. The "bird's eye view" shows that ...

ALA's Montreal Conference of 1900

Librarians in Canada were welcome as members of the American Library Association (ALA) from its inception, and in June, 1900 ALA met for the...

Latest Article on Bibliophilately

I discussed the first article about the topic of bibliophilately by John Boynton Kaiser in a recent post . I can now report that I am the au...

Edmon Low, Library Legislation Advocate

Each year I peruse the Dictionary of American Library Biography and its two supplements to identify significant birth anniversaries of form...

Bertram Approves Reedsburg's (WI) Carnegie Plans 1911

James Bertram's signature of approval on Reedsburg plans. Postcard of Carnegie library building in Reedsburg, WI My wife and I drove up ...

Happy 125th Birthday John Boynton Kaiser, Bibliophilatelist

I'm also a blogger for the Philatelic Literature & Research blog . I published the post below on that blog earlier today. Today is t...