Harry O. Foster life
Tuesday, 2 April 2013
Library of Congress Exhibit
›
April is the month that we celebrate National Library Week . This year it is April 14 -20. I'm helping to celebrate this event with an e...
Monday, 1 April 2013
Evolution of Metal Bookstacks
›
Metal bookstacks are in the news in New York. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has an exhibit on display featuring the works of F...
Sunday, 31 March 2013
A Visit to the St. Louis Public Library
›
For a library history buff, it doesn't get much better than a visit to the newly renovated Central Library of the St. Louis Public Libr...
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Women on Library Postcards
›
Library, Washington Normal School, Ellensburg, WA Library, Baptist Missionary Training School, Chicago Guthrie (OK) Carnegie Library I'v...
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Books in Chains
›
Hereford Cathedral Chained Library Books in Chains is the title of a book originally published in London in 1892 that contains the writings...
Friday, 1 March 2013
German POW Camp Libraries in WWI
›
I have a special interest in military libraries during wartime. Most of the items in my collection on this topic are about U.S. librarie...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Postcard Depicting Cats in the Library
›
This delightful postcard has a caption in German which reads "Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual!". This translates in English to ...
›
Home
View web version