Welcome to LHRT News and Notes, the blog of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association.
Our blog includes news about the Round Table’s conferences, calls for papers, award announcements, and other items of interest from the world of library history.
The blog also features “notes”—informal essays about the people, themes, technologies, and collections in the history of libraries.
We encourage you to consider submitting a news item or an essay to LHRT News and Notes. The blog considers submissions from anyone, whether or not they are part of LHRT. Students, faculty, librarians, historians, and anyone with something to say about library history are all encouraged to submit. If you have an idea for a post, please email our team at lhrtnewsandnotes@gmail.com.
Join our conversation about the fascinating history of libraries! —Editor, Brett Spencer
Thinking of penning the history of your library? Check out LHRT’s Guidelines for Writing Local Library Histories at http://www.ala.org/rt/lhrt/governance/lhrtpositions/guidelineswriting 
We invite you to join our conversations about the history of libraries! LHRT Dinner Photo (American Library Association 2019). 
Teen winner of the Mount Prospect Public Library’s card design contest, as part of the library’s 75th Anniversary Celebration. Shows the library in 1943 and 2018. 
How intriguing! A glimpse inside the Black Book of Carmarthen, one of the Celtic treasures preserved by the National Library of Wales(NLW)…find out about the history of NLW and its collections in a post from Calista Williams in Library Chronicles. 
“Allison School Library, Metropolitan School District of Washington Township, Indianapolis, Indiana. A Knapp School Libraries Project Demonstration School. Children learning to use the catalog as a means of finding books on their own.” Image and caption from ALA Archives. https://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=708 
Getting Acquainted with the Catalog, Cleveland Public Library, 1939. Courtesy of American Library Association Archives http://archives.library.illinois.edu/alaarchon/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=209 
Check out the book chapter “Library History as Community History: Florence and Graham” by Jonathan Pacheco Bell in “Library Chronicles.” Artists from CalArts lead youth in a dance party at the book launch!-Image Courtesy of Katie O’Kelly 
American Library Association’s resolution, presented on the Council floor in 2018, apologizing for segregated libraries. Thanks to Andrew B. Wertheimer for the photos of this historic event! 
Libraries have found many creative ways of commemorating their anniversaries. At Mount Prospect Public Library, Illinois, the staff created an iconic “cake” made out of books for their celebration. (Photo credit: Skip Peterson Photography. Photo provided by MPPL.) Click over to our Celebrations section for more ideas for library celebrations 
How did libraries get their classification schemes? Enjoy Dr. Catherine J. Minter’s “Competing Classifications at the Library of Indiana University, 1898-1918” in our Information Innovations section (Image by vonriesling from Pixabay)
