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Nominations Open for the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award

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The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association invites nominations for the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award. The Gleason Award is presented every third year to recognize the best monograph in English in the field of library history. Books first published in 2022, 2023, and 2024 are eligible for the award in 2025. Bibliographies and edited collections cannot be considered.

Nominations are welcome from all interested parties and should include a brief statement explaining why the book is worthy of consideration for the Gleason Book Award. Before submitting a nomination, please contact the committee chair, Catherine J. Minter, at cjminter@iu.edu, to see if the book you would like to nominate is already under consideration for the award in 2025.

Nominations are due on December 15, 2024. Selection of an award winner will be made no later than April 1, 2025. The winner will be announced in a press release on or about June 1, 2025. Certificates honoring the author and publisher of the Gleason Book Award winner will be presented at a Library History Round Table awards ceremony during the ALA Annual Conference in 2025.

Please direct any questions to Catherine J. Minter, at cjminter@iu.edu.

LHRT Web Manager Needed!

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The LHRT web pages are located on the ALA web site at: https://www.ala.org/lhrt

The duties of the web manager under the current handbook are as follows:

  • Maintain and update LHRT’s web pages and other electronic forums, particularly for time-sensitive information such as officer/committee rosters and conference information.
  • Initiate improvements to LHRT’s web pages and other electronic publications.
  • Work with the Executive Committee to assemble materials to be published on LHRT’s website and other electronic venues.
  • Consult with ALA staff as needed.

The term would be for two years from Jan 2025-Dec 2026, and Katie is willing to help transition the new web manager. We hope to appoint a new web manager in November to ensure time for the transition.

Interested? email Alea Henle (henlear@miamioh.edu)

Pop-up exhibit honors Augusta Baker’s legacy [USC College of Information and Communications]

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A wonderful way to bring awareness to a pioneer of librarianship! Check out the news story about the pop-up exhibit by Dr. Nicole Cooke to honor Augusta Baker:

https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/library_and_information_science/news/2024/augusta_baker_popup_exhibit.php

Dr. Cooke notes that Augusta Baker “broke a lot of barriers, she was a groundbreaking Black librarian at the New York Public Library, she was a social justice activist, an author, and later a storyteller in residence at the School of Information Science” at the University of South Carolina.