https://www.infodocket.com/2022/05/12/report-digitization-open-access-and-the-internet-aid-uclas-return-of-books-looted-by-nazis/

https://www.wwno.org/news/2022-02-21/new-orleans-public-library-celebrates-125-years-we-look-back-at-its-rich-and-complex-history

I’ve been doing some reading into the history of school libraries, teacher librarians, and the different School Library Associations around Australia to better understand where I, as a teacher librarian, come from, the continual fight for school libraries and teacher librarians, the structures of these organisations and how they support teacher librarians within their states […]

A brief history of school libraries and teacher librarians in Australia — Adventures of the Lifting Librarian

A fun and light-hearted recollection of the history of libraries:

https://www.reporterherald.com/2022/04/23/trivially-speaking-check-out-library-history-through-the-centuries/

(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you thanks to the collaboration of The European Sting with the World Economic Forum. Author: Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Formative Content 23 April is World Book and Copyright Day. In The Library: A Fragile History, two academics explore the mixed fortunes of book collections, from the ancient scrolls of Alexandria to […]

From fiction bans to wartime books: The history of libraries and how they’ve shaped us — The European Sting – Critical News & Insights on European Politics, Economy, Foreign Affairs, Business & Technology – europeansting.com

Alana Mohamed writes in Literary Hub:

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil: Tracking Adversaries, Hiding Evidence, and Other No Good Dirty Deeds

How J. Edgar Hoover Used the Power of Libraries for Evil

Librarians and libraries across the world play a role in preserving and sharing Ukraine’s cultural history.

Libraries around the world safeguard Ukrainian culture — ArtsHub UK

A very nice series on historical librarians, including pictures and artifacts, from the New York Academy of Medicine:

https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/tag/library-history/

From Inside Science Resources, ALA ACRL/STS Forum for Resources Related to Science & Technology Librarianship—

Amanda McCormick writes about the history of libraries and American socioeconomic mobility in this thought-provoking essays which cites works by LHRT scholars:

https://insidescienceresources.wordpress.com/2022/02/15/thoughts-on-libraries-and-the-american-dream/

Contact:

Allison G. Kaplan

Chair, Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Committee

Library History Round Table (LHRT)

agkaplan@wisc.edu

CHICAGO — The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Committee of the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to present the 2022 Gleason Book Award to Rebecka Taves Sheffield, a senior policy advisor for the Archives of Ontario, for “Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times” (Litwin Books, 2020). Presented every third year, the Gleason Award recognizes the best book written in English in the field of library history. First given in 2004, this award honors the professional contributions of Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Library Science (University of Chicago, 1940).

The Gleason Award Committee was impressed with the caliber of this year’s 11 nominees and consider this round of awards to include the greatest number of nominees in the history of the award. The Committee would like to congratulate the scholars making such important contributions to the field, and we would similarly like to thank the individuals who brought these works to our attention.

As the title suggests, “Documenting Rebellions: A Study of Four Lesbian and Gay Archives in Queer Times” presents a five-year case study of four unique archives in North America: The Lesbian Herstory Archives (New York, New York), The ONE National Gay and Lesbian archives (Los Angeles, California), the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives (West Hollywood, California), and the ArQuives: Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives (Toronto, Ontario).  With engaging text, Dr. Sheffield weaves a story of collecting, archiving, and respecting the history of this seriously underrepresented population within the social context of recent history from the late 20th to the early 21st centuries.  

The Committee members are pleased to be able to recognize this work that is likely to serve as a seminal resource for historians and archivists in the years to come and congratulate Dr. Sheffield for this valuable contribution to the professional scholarship of library history.

Committee Members
Dr. Allison G. Kaplan (Chair) Distinguished Faculty Associate Emerita, Information School, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dr. Carol A. Leibiger, Associate Professor, Information Literacy Coordinator, University of South Dakota
Dr. Catherine Jane Minter, Associate Librarian, Indiana University
Dr. Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies Emeritus, School of Information, Florida State University
Ms. Catherine Elizabeth MacKendrick (Student Observer, University of Illinois)

Find the original press release from ALA here: https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/04/lhrt-presents-2022-gleason-book-award-rebecka-taves-sheffield