Wow!!! This is an incredible, one-of-a-kind library:
http://www.walkerdigital.com/the-walker-library_welcome.html
Check out the virtual tour and gallery. They also offer TED Talks.
Has anyone out there ever been to the The Walker Library of The History of Human Imagination? Email us at dbs21@psu.edu
Best,
Brett
P.S. Enjoy the PBS News Hour tour of the Library below.
As LHRT celebrates it’s 75th Anniversary, the ALA Archives marks its 50th Anniversary!
Celebrate the Archives by reading through some of their recent blog posts about the history of intellectual freedom, military camp libraries, and the National Conference on Asian/Pacific American Librarians.
Find our more about the Archives and its history at https://www.library.illinois.edu/ala/
Hi, all,
For those headed to IFLA this summer, pop down on the train a few days earlier to the Library History Special Interest Group Satellite Meeting at the Mundaneum museum in Mons, Belgium, to see a few fellow LHRTers in action! The symposium is titled “Preserving Our Origins: Approaches to the Organization, Curation, and Historiography of the Record of National and International Organizations in Libraries, Information, and Documentation,” will be held August 17-19, and costs 100 euros (which includes a dinner–whatta deal!). More info and registration here: Satellite Meetings – IFLA WLIC 2023
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| Satellite Meetings – IFLA WLIC 2023 Every year, a number of IFLA Professional Units (Sections, Special Interest Groups, Review Groups, and Advisory Committees) organise unique Satellite Meetings prior to or just after the IFLA World Library and Information Congress. These 1-2 day meetings are held either in the host country or in countries in the surrounding region.View this on IFLA WLIC 2023 > | ||
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Emily Spunaugle
Past Chair, LHRT
Humanities and Rare Books Librarian
Oakland University
She/Her/Hers
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I recently ran across this wonderful libguide on the history of Anatolia College Libraries in Greece:
https://anatolia.libguides.com/bissell/about/history
It’s a great site about a historic Greek library, and it also offers an example of how to harness the commonly-used web platform libguides to paint a portrait of a library’s history.
Best,
Brett
Through the form of a tour of libraries, this podcast series offers a wonderful exploration of the collections, history, and impact of Historically Black College and Universities in the USA! The Council on Library and Information Resources sponsored its creation.
“In the third season of CLIR’s podcast, Material Memory, host Sharon M. Burney takes us on a tour of six HBCU libraries, highlighting the people and collections, and giving us a glimpse into the vital role these institutions play in their communities.”
https://material-memory.clir.org/season-3/
Sources on the history of HBCU Libraries:
Owens, Brandon A., Sr. 2020. “A History of Fisk University Library: 150 Years of African American Public History and Culture, 1866 – 2016.” Middle Tennessee State University. https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/5d76a65b-9e75-4343-af3f-133772c86610/content
Owens, Irene. “Stories Told but Yet Unfinished: Challenges Facing African-American Libraries and Special Collections in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.” Journal of Library Administration 33, no. 3-4 (2001): 165-181. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J111v33n03_01
“Join the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) for our fourth annual Afternoon of Social Justice. This free virtual event features scholars and librarians as they present on a variety of topics including feminist struggles in times of crises, disabilities, and boycotts. Time will be allowed at the end of each presentation for questions and discussions.”
August 9, 2023 12:00pm – 4:30pm Central Time
Full Details:
The International Society for Medievalist Librarians is soliciting participants for two roundtables to be held during next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 9-11, 2024). If your academic background includes any study of the Middle Ages, please consider participating! Questions can be directed to the contact person for the individual panels.
“Medievalist Librarians in Technical Services” (A Roundtable)
Contact: Allie McCormack (allie.mccormack@utah.edu)
Format: Hybrid – participants can choose either virtual or in-person attendance
Library technical services – including collection development, cataloging, and processing – is not well understood by the public. However, teaching, research, and other services offered by libraries would not be possible without this behind-the-scenes work. Presenters will shine a light on technical services roles, explain the skills needed for success in these positions, and share how their medievalist backgrounds influence their work.
“The Global Middle Ages in the Library: Building and Using Diverse Medieval Studies Collections” (A Roundtable)
Contact: Anna Siebach-Larsen (annasiebachlarsen@rochester.edu)
Format: In-person
The last few years have seen long-overdue discussions about the representation of a diverse and global Middle Ages in our classroom and research. However, missing from these conversations is the role of library collections in shaping and supporting this approach to scholarship and pedagogy. Moreover, this vital aspect of librarianship is often unseen or misunderstood by the public. This panel invites librarians and curators to discuss the challenges and opportunities of developing diverse collections in premodern studies, taking into consideration issues of staffing, funding, expertise, provenance, open access, and classroom integration. Presentations will be followed by discussion and collective brain-storming.
Please share widely with anyone else who may be interested! All panelists must submit proposals through the conference portal: icms.confex.com/icms/2024/cfp.cgi.
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Allison McCormack
Original Cataloger for Special Collections
University of Utah
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Here is another fantastic poster from a fellow LHRT member. In this poster, Tara Murray Grove, Librarian for Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures at Penn State University and former President of the Special Library Association, discusses philatelic libraries. You may remember that Tara also wrote a history of the American Philatelic Research Library for the blog in the past (it is the second entry down on the “Library Chronicles” page).
Per her poster abstract, “Philatelic libraries—libraries dedicated to stamp collecting and postal history—provide a promising case study for investigating how the development of non-profit special library structures and practices influence the level of public access to collections.” You’ll find facts about each library’s history within their profiles in the attached poster. Tara also explains in the poster that “the next phase of this project will investigate the history of each library with the aim of understanding the role of non-profit special libraries in society and how they build relationships with other institutions.” We’re excited to watch her project unfold!!
Special Delivery: Philatelic Library Models and Access to Collections
https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/fc30c7c9-a3f2-45e7-8361-c8db44e5ee6f