https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/04/an-800-year-old-tiny-book-of-hours/?loclr=liloc
Dr. Nicole A. Cooke Wins the Joseph W. Lippincott Award!
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Nicole A. Cook, LHRT member and Co-Editor of Libraries: Culture, History, & Society, on winning the Joseph W. Lippincott Award!!!!:
https://www.ala.org/news/2024/05/nicole-cooke-wins-joseph-w-lippincott-award
New Note: Libraries of Colonial America
Please check out a new note about American colonial libraries by Abigail Barrett, graduate library science student at Indiana University – Indianapolis, in our “Library Chronicles” column:
Registration Link for LHRT Online Research Forum
Hi all,
Here is the link to the registration form for the LHRT Online Research Forum 2024: “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble”:
https://miamioh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TGn3WCRbR-yrw6poRVL2Ug#/registration
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LHRT Online Research Forum 2024: “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble”
Exciting news! Please see below for a link to download the registration information and agenda for the LHRT Online Research Forum 2024: “Trouble, Trouble, Trouble”!
Registration Link: https://miamioh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TGn3WCRbR-yrw6poRVL2Ug#/registration
French national library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic [The Guardian]
Library History Round Table–Wikipedia Page [Dr. Kathleen McCook]
Applause to Dr. Kathleen McCook for creating the first wikipedia page for LHRT!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_History_Round_Table
To find out more about Dr. McCook’s work on wikipedia and how to help, please see the Library History on Wikipedia page here on the blog…
Call Number Podcast: Preserving History
“In Episode 94, Call Number celebrates Preservation Week, this year to be held April 28–May 4. With the theme of “Preserving Identities,” the week’s events aim to raise awareness of the role libraries and cultural institutions play in protecting historic and culturally significant collections.” —American Libraries
Full details: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/call-number-podcast-preserving-history/
Library History Bibliography Database Launch!
I am excited to announce the launch of the Library History Bibliography database. Home | Bibliography of Library History, 1990-2022 (psu.edu)
This resource contains over 7,000 records for books, articles, and theses in library history. It contains entries from the semi-annual bibliographies compiled by Ed Goedeken over three decades with more recent publications identified by David Lincove.
As you explore, keep in mind that the original bibliography contained only very brief citations. Essentially you are searching for titles and authors only. In the coming months I will be adding content including author abstracts as well as some controlled terms to enable searching for things like chronological period, library type, etc…
Comments, suggestions, additions, and corrections are most welcome. I’d love to hear about additional features that would be useful.
Eric Novotny
Humanities Librarian for History, History of Science and Technology and Middle East Studies
George and Sherry Middlemas Arts & Humanities Library
Pennsylvania State University
ecn1@psu.edu – 814-865-1014
New Chung | Lind Gallery brings B.C. histories together at UBC Library [UBC News]
“The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection, donated to UBC Library in 1999, contains more than 25,000 rare and unique documents, books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, tableware and other artifacts that represent early B.C. history, immigration and settlement, particularly of Chinese people in North America and the CPR.”
https://news.ubc.ca/2024/04/22/ubc-library-opens-chung-lind-gallery