Library History Buff Google Images

Pinterest has become a popular Internet program to group and share images on a wide variety of topics in an interesting way. One of my favo...

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...

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...

Molesworth Institute News

My appointment to the Molesworth Institute in 2009 by Norman D. Stevens , the Institute Director, was a distinctive honor for me. A major g...

Make Mine a Small One

The heading for this post is taken from a publication of the same name by Lawrence Clark Powell and provides a good introduction to a discus...

Library Humor

I was recently informed by Norman D. Stevens , Director of the Molesworth Institute , that I would be the recipient of the 2009 Edmund Leste...

World's Greatest Librariana Collectors Meet

Recently, the world's two greatest collectors of librariana met at the Bibliotheekmuseum (Library Museum) in Amsterdam. Hans Krol, fou...

Libraries and Librarians in Children's Books

How librarians and libraries are depicted in the popular culture is a topic which sometimes gets those of in the library profession fired up...

Little Lyrics for Librarians

Thanks to librariana collector extraordinaire Norman D. Stevens I obtained a copy of a reprint of a wonderful little publication entitled Li...