Tailspin Tommy, Hal Forrest, and Copyright

At the urgings of Librarian of Congress Ainsworth Rand Spofford all of the functions of copyright for the United States were centralized in...

Dollars & Sense for South Carolina Public Libraries

Paul Nelson passed along the good news that the South Carolina State Legislature overrode a veto by Governor Sanford of almost $5 million i...

Seattle and Andrew Carnegie

Seattle was one of the fortunate communites that received grants from Andrew Carnegie for its main public library building and multiple bra...

Going Postal With The British

At the request of Renae Satterly, the Editor of the Library & Information History Group Newsletter , I agreed to do write a brief articl...

William Howard Brett (1846-1918), Cleveland Librarian

In August 1918 Cleveland Public Library Librarian William Brett was killed by a drunken driver while trying to board a s...

Mary P. Aiken (1927-2010) and Project Little Kids

Hands down, the most creative and innovative segment of the library profession is public library children's librarians. In my career I h...

William F. Poole,"The Harvard Book", and the ALA Scrapbook of 1876

The government issued postal card featured in this post has multiple points of interest for a collector of postal librariana and library hi...