500 Blog Posts and Counting

 Wayne Wiegand's Library Trading Card  This post marks the 500th post for the Library History Buff Blog which started on November 17...

The Fenton Metallic Mfg Company Fire of 1892

The Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Company of Jamestown, NY was one of the early manufacturers of steel stacks for libraries. On October 20, ...

Elroy (WI) Public Library and the Ice Storm of 1922

My library postcard collection includes Wisconsin libraries and unusual library postcards. The postcard above showing the impact of the 1922...

Solberg, Woods, and the Library of Congress

Thorvald Solberg (1852-1949) was the nation's first Register of Copyrights in the Library of Congress. He served in that capacity from ...

Libraries With the Most Librariana

If you follow this blog, you know that I am a collector of librariana . Although my primary emphasis is on the collection of postal libraria...

Book Trailers

Gary (IN) Public Library book trailer Clark County (IN) Public Library book trailer Kenosha (WI) Public Library book trailer Southwest Wisco...

New Wisconsin Library Heritage Center Website

As part of a major reworking of the websites for the Wisconsin Library Association, the website for the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center h...

Bradbury on Carnegie

Author Ray Bradbury died on June 5 at age 91. A post in the Fine Books & Collections Blog by Nate Pedersen about Bradbury reminded me o...

Carnegie's World War I Libraries

First camp library completed with Carnegie funds  Interior of Camp Johnston, FL Library When the American Library Association assumed a majo...

A Branch and a Bookmobile for African Americans in Carrollton, GA

I recently acquired a postcard (see above) which shows the Delta Sigma Theta bookmobile in front of the King St. Branch Library of of the We...