Pennsylvania Carnegie Collections Online

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh have announced a joint digital archive of Andrew Carnegie ma...

Bookmobile Celebration

I learned through a Twitter message from the American Library Association's Library that there is going to be a National Bookmobile Da...

Presidential Libraries Exhibit

I usually participate in a couple of national level philatelic exhibits featuring parts of my collection of postal librariana each year. On...

Oldest Overdue Notice?

Any library that lends its books or other materials for use outside of the library must have a system for insuring the safe return of those ...

Lincoln and A Nation of Readers

John Hotchner, a nationally prominent philatelist and columnist for Linn's Stamp News , recently attacked the historical integrity of on...

Membership Law Libraries

After my post on "Surviving Membership Libraries" , David McFadden of the Leigh H. Taylor Law Library of the Southwestern Law Sc...

ALA's Book-buying Committee

The American Library Association appointed a Committee on Book-buying in 1903 (it's initial name was Committee on Relations...