From The Zekelman Holocaust Center:

Topic: The Book Smugglers of the Vilna Ghetto: A Story of Moral Resistance

Description: Please note, due to the current developments of COVID- 19, this program will now be presented solely virtual on ZOOM.**

In Vilna, the city Jews called “The Jerusalem of Lithuania,” a group of ghetto inmates risked their lives during World War II to rescue thousands of rare books, documents, and works of art from the Nazis. In an operation that lasted eighteen months, they smuggled the materials past guards and buried them in bunkers. Those members of the group who survived the War returned after Vilna’s liberation and dug up the materials. They eventually smuggled the books across Europe until they reached the United States and Israel. What did they rescue, and why did they do it?

In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, author Dr. David E. Fishman will discuss the incredible story he wrote about in The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis, and the exhibit based on his book.

Thank you to our Community Partners: The Farmington Community Library and the West Bloomfield Township Public Library.Time

Jan 27, 2022 07:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

For details and registration: Link

Hi friends —

Amanda Belantara, Michele Fenton, and I are excited to announce the 2022 picks for LHRT’s book discussion series, LHRT Reads! This year, February’s title honors African American History Month by focusing on E.J. Josey, a crucial changemaker in our profession. Also, in response to attendee feedback, we’ve added a historical fiction selection, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian. 

• February 24th: Renate Chancellor, E.J. Josey: Transformational Leader of the Modern Library Profession 
• April 14th: Alice Crawford, The Meaning of the Library, a Cultural History
• June: No LHRT Reads — please attend LHRT’s ALA conference programs instead!
• August 18th: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, The Personal Librarian
• October 20th: Mike Thomson, Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Seige
• December 15th: Susan Orlean, The Library Book

All the discussions will take place on Thursday nights, starting at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, via Zoom. Registration is required for each event, so please watch your e-mail and ALA Connect for further communications. To register for E. J. Josey on February 24th, go to our registration form. Registration is free and you do not need to be an ALA or LHRT member to participate. All attendees, however, are expected to adhere to ALA’s Online Code of Conduct. 

Looking forward to seeing you at the next LHRT Reads!
Bernadette  🙂(and Amanda and Michele)

Bernadette A. Lear (she/her/hers/Ms.)

Behavioral Sciences and Education Librarian, Harrisburg

Affiliate Faculty, Education Library and Pennsylvania Center for the Book, University ParkBAL19@psu.edu – 717-948-6360
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9576-0704

Author of Made Free and Thrown Open to the Public: Community Libraries in Pennsylvania from the Colonial Era through World War IIhttps://upittpress.org/books/9780822947004/

Co-Editor of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society

http://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_LCHS.html 

Administrator of the Literary and Cultural Heritage Maps of Pennsylvania Projecthttps://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-maps-pa

Catch this interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, a co-author of the new book, Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization in Ed Surge:

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-12-21-the-surprising-history-of-google-s-push-to-scan-millions-of-library-books

Hi library history enthusiasts:

Check out this new article about an American librarian who combined his professional career with Progressive activism!:

David Lincove. “Charles B. Galbreath: Progressive Librarian, Scholar, Poet, and Promoter of Ohio History, 1858-1934,”  Ohio State University Knowledge Bank, 2022.  79p.  

Access: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/93196

Abstract from OSU Knowledge Bank: “Charles Burleigh Galbreath was important for his contributions to the growth of collections and services at the State Library of Ohio and the expansion of public libraries as State Librarian from 1896-1911, 1915-1918, and 1927-1929. At the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society he was a leader, educator, and promoter of Ohio history as Secretary, Editor, and Librarian from 1920-1934. Galbreath promoted reading and education throughout Ohio, and he worked to organize research collections of primary sources, books and journals, newspapers, and state documents. His professional career was influenced by his Progressive political activism through his longtime dedication to the Ohio Republican Party. He was known for his support for Progressive reforms, organizational vision and skill, political influence, and avocation as a poet.”