LHRT 75th Anniversary Gallery

Welcome to the celebration page for LHRT’s 75th Anniversary! Please choose from the slide shows below to learn more about LHRT’s history and its members. Please submit additional photos, as well as corrections or additions to the captions of the current photos, to lhrtnewsandnotes@gmail.com. Libraries: Culture, History, & Society will also be publishing remembrances from members in issues 7.1 and 7.2.

Want to celebrate by reading more about LHRT’s past? Lee Shiflett recounts LHRT’s formative years in The American Library History Round Table: The First Quarter Century. In addition, digitized issues of the LHRT newsletter are available back to 1996 on the ALA Institutional Repository.

  • A Few Early LHRT Leaders...
  • black-and-white photo of a man with hand on chin
  • black-and-white photo of a man
  • 2 men in a library surrounded by book shelves, opening a book together, one on left wears a suit, one on right wear graduation regalia.
  • Black-and-white photo of a man
  • a black and white photo of a man with beard, glasses, 19th century suit
  • a woman presenting at a podium, front of podium says "The Driskill"
  • 3 men in a semi-circle in deep thought & talking
  • a man and a woman at a table eating, smiling, and talking
  • a woman presents at a podium with "The Driskill Hotel" inscribed on the front, 3 man sitting at chairs to the side, audience looks on
  • man at a podium, mirror and plant in background
  • a crowd mingling at a conference
  • black-and-white photo of 8 people posing in front of a people
  • group of people with cups conversing
  • 2 men across a table together, holding papers and pencils
  • a poster session-style presentation. The title at the top left is "Anne Wallace and Southern Library Progrss, 1892-1908". Several panels have photographs with text blocks.
  • 6 people at a dinner tablem drinking coffee?, 3 on one side and 3 on the other, enjoying themselves
  • 6 people at a dinner table, man at left is talking while other look at him
  • Title Slide: "New Century, New Milestones" against a background of historic books
  • LHRT members pose for a group photo.--the words "ALA Library History Round Table" are written above the group
  • a group sitting around a wooden table, sunlight comes through a window in the back, historical furniture and walls
  • a group of people seated, watching a presentation. A panel of speakers with an image on the screen.
  • A group of happy people, sitting around a restaurant table smiling at the camera, in an area suffused in sunlight.
  • Group of people sitting on 2 sides of a long table
  • woman at a podium with microphone
  • A gallery of 9 people, of various genders, races, ages
  • A b-and-w book cover showing two men sitting in front of a library window, one has a shotgun. The Cover says: Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, Mike Selby
  • A crowd of people at rows of tables with laptops. Two large screens in fron of the audience. A panelp of people at the front of the room.
  • A couple smiling and standing together, wearing conference badges.
  • A professor standing behind a black table with microphones on it, talking to 2 conference attendees.
  • Two speakers smiling and sitting at a black table surrounded by microphones.
  • A logo stating Library History Roundtable, Promoting Library History since 1947
  • A black-and-white photo of a crowd of people facing a presenter, banner in background says "New Orleans Public Library" and photos of a protest.
  • a journal issue in the center with books and ipad interfiled "Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, Vol 11, No 1, 2017, The Pennsylvania State University Press." Photo of woman on left; photo of man on the right.
  • 3 African-American women against a backdrop of books, ADelina Coppin Alvarado, Clara S. Jones, Latanya N. Jenkins. A banner says "Black Librarians Project, Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, Project Editor"
  • a man at a podium with a microphone, a woman smiling to the side
  • 2 women and 1 man at a black table with microphones. A "New Orleans Public Library" banner in the background.
  • two women at a podium, one has a laptop open on the podium
  • a woman at a glass podium, with laptop to the side
  • a woman at a glass podium speaking
  • a woman speaking at a podium
  • a man at a podium, holding papers