• Reference “commandments” from the 1970s, 1990s, and today
• ALT-BLA: Altoona’s first community website
• Librarians Seeking Ten Nights in a Barroom (rare books librarianship, 1950s}
• Keith Doms (former PaLA president) talks about leadership (1986)

Exciting news: an absolutely fantastic oral history project by Ruth Tillman at Penn State Libraries explores the rise of one of the early computerized catalog systems:

https://liashistory.com

It includes audio interviews with transcripts and a timeline, reflecting several years of research!

This is not only invaluable as a history of computing in libraries, but also an example of how to do oral history in libraries.

“The ‘Voices of the Colored Libraries: An Interactive Journey through History’ project represents a
critical effort to preserve, document, and share the untold histories of racially segregated “colored”
Libraries that served African American communities during the Jim Crow era.”

Voices of Colored Libraries in Segregated America

Browse through this cool gallery of bookmobiles!: https://behindeveryday.com/bookmobiles/

And, as a bonus, if you are interested in bookmobiles and their history, Derek Attig’s site Bookmobility, which covers “information in motion,” is a must see!

Up to 60% of medieval texts and 95% of manuscripts have vanished, study finds

This trove likely offers a lot of interest to library historians:

https://www.gpo.gov/who-we-are/news-media/news-and-press-releases/gpo-launches-public-access-to-1-2-million-historic-government-records-dating-back-to-1895

“Books retain the exact original arrangement desired by Eco.”

https://kathleenmccook.substack.com/p/umberto-eco-library-opens?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=321273&post_id=205821841&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=51xvh&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/oldest-libraries-in-india-that-have-been-standing-tall-for-over-a-century

“Take a tour across the country through its vast and venerable centres of knowledge, each showcasing its own unique architectural splendour.”

A British Warship Chased an American Ship for 7 Hours on Christmas Eve 1776 and Captured It. Onboard Was a Copy of the Declaration of Independence That Just Resurfaced in London