WI Library Hall of Fame to Induct 7 on Nov. 3

Ginny Moore Kruse, WI Library Hall of Fame Inductee As Chair of the Steering Committee of the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center , one of my ...

Houston's Carnegie Libraries

The postcard of the Carnegie Library at McKinney and Travis Sts. in Houston, TX shown above was the first stimulus for my closer look at Hou...

Dabney's Circulating Library, Salem, MA

I recently acquired a bookplate for Dabney's Circulating Library of Salem, Massachusetts. The library was located in the Salem Bookstore...

World's Largest Collection of Overdue Notices on Postal Cards?

The United States Post Office Department introduced postal cards with pre-printed postage in the United States in 1873. Libraries were quick...

Bookplate in a Book About Books

Bookplate collectors often remove bookplates from books for their collections. As a very modest collector of bookplates from institutional l...

Mystery Postcard, ALA Detroit Conference 1970

What does a postcard showing two young women smiling over a car or truck engine have to do with the American Library Association's Confe...

UN Anniversaries and Postal Librariana

Envelope showing one of the first stamps of the United Nations Special event envelope for dedication of Hammarskjold Library There are two u...