How the Library Catalog Card Transformed the Business World

In his book Paper Machines: About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929 (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2011) Markus Krajewski tells the fascinating s...

Library Recipes

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

Hammond Typewriter and Card Cataloger

A typewriter story on the 50th anniversary of the IBM Selectric Typewriter . When the Harvard College Library decided to make its catalog mo...

Library Book Trucks

Library Bureau Book Truck Gaylord Bros. Book Truck The Library Bureau's Classified Illustrated Catalog of 1886 described the library boo...

Library Book Perforating Device

Throughout the history of libraries they have taken steps to protect their collections from theft. Some early libraries actually chained the...

Origin of Vertical Files

Research by the Early Office Museum makes a strong case that the first vertical file cabinets were produced by Library Bureau, the library ...

Mary Eileen Ahern (1860-1938), Public Libraries Editor

Mary Eileen Ahern was born on October 1, 1860, one hundred and fifty years ago today, near Indianapolis, Indiana. So happy birthday Mary Eil...

Melvil Dewey's Library Notes

Library Notes was a quarterly publication established by Melvil Dewey's Library Bureau in 1886. The promotional flyer for Library Notes...