Hello:
The American Library Association’s National Library Week is coming up on April 7-13, 2024!
The ALA Library History Round Table’s social media and blog teams are collaborating to celebrate the occasion:
>Between now and National Library Week, we’ll send out “this week in library and book history” posts each week on our social media to highlight interesting facts from the past. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram so you don’t miss the posts!
>LHRT News & Notes, LHRT’s blog, will be compiling “virtual artifacts” from libraries’ past to share with our audience on a special gallery on the blog. Virtual artifacts can consist of pictures of any of the following:
- Card catalogs
- Due date stamps
- Promotional items like buttons, pencils, ribbons
- Posters
- Borrower cards
- Overdue notices
- Other librariana
Please send pictures along with captions detailing, if possible, the name of the item, the approximate age, library where the item was found, and any other relevant or interesting facts to lhrtnewsandnotes@gmail.com
Nearly any format for the pictures (JPG, PGN, PDF) will work. Thank you for helping us virtually preserve treasures of library history!
(If you would like to learn more about librariana, please check out The Library History Buff Blog and The Library History Buff site by Larry T. Nix as well as A Guide to Collecting Librariana by Norman D. Stevens).
Best Wishes,
Hannah Mabry Wang, LHRT Social Media Coordinator
Brett Spencer, LHRT News & Notes Editor