LHRT Newsletter
JUNE 2012 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2 BERNADETTE A. LEAR, EDITOR BAL19 @ PSU.EDU Greetings from the Chair BAL19 @ PSU.EDU
out directions and Rights: African Americans additional information and American Library shortly before the History.” Our distinguished conference. I’d like to invited speakers are: thank all the members of • Karen Cook, "Breaking the MOC for their efforts the Chains: Freedom during the past year. Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Summer The Carnegie library tour is Project" particularly appropriate this • Cheryl Knott, "Questions year, since our speaker for of Access: The the annual Edward G. Institutionalization of Holley Memorial Lecture Racial Segregation in Public Tom Glynn, current chair of LHRT. will be Abigail Van Slyck, Libraries in the First Half the author of, among other of the Twentieth Century" works, Free to All: • Steven Harris, Dear Friends and diversity/spectrum_), Carnegie Libraries and "Preserving the Union: Colleagues, which is the association’s American Culture, 1890- ALA and Its Southern diversity and recruitment 1920 (University of Chapters during the Civil I hope everyone is enjoying effort, designed to increase Chicago Press, 1995). Her Rights Movement" wonderful spring weather the representation of talk is entitled “Thinking The respondent will be and looking forward to underrepresented groups in Globally about Carnegie Renate Chancellor. I meeting up at the ALA the profession. The Libraries” and examines encourage you to attend Annual Conference in executive committee voted the role that Carnegie what promises to be a very Anaheim this summer. It is to donate $1,000 to this libraries in New Zealand interesting and thought- with great pleasure that I worthy effort. played in Andrew submit this brief report on Carnegie’s effort to forge a — continued, page 2 the activities of your round The LHRT membership “Race Alliance” among table this year. and outreach committee people of British ancestry (MOC) has been very in North America, Great One important item on our active in the past several Britain, Australasia. agenda at the executive months. In particular, the Established in 1995 and committee’s mid-winter committee, chaired by named for a preeminent meeting in January was a Dominique Daniel library historian, educator, report from our new ([email protected]), has mentor, the Holley lecture webmaster, Julia Skinner arranged two fun events is delivered by a prominent ([email protected]). for the Anaheim scholar from outside the We are making a concerted conference. On Saturday, library field on a topic effort this year to connect June 23rd, at 1:30 p.m. relating to library history. I Inside this issue: and share information there will be a tour of the am pleased and grateful relating to library history in city’s Carnegie Library, that Dr. Van Slyck has various social media. Please which opened to the accepted our invitation. Research Forum 2-3 “like” us on Facebook, reading public in 1909. And Her talk will be at 4:00 p.m. follow us on Twitter. If you later that same day, at 6:00 on Saturday, June 23rd, Web Site Review 3 have any questions or p.m., we will gather at the room 206A in the suggestions in this regard, Story Teller’s Café in the convention center. Tropic of Cancer 4 please contact Julia directly. Grand Californian Hotel Another important for food, drink and The title of this year’s Crossword Answers 5 discussion at the meeting stimulating conversation. Invited Speakers Panel, to was support for ALA’s This is a great way to meet held at 10:30 a.m. on Classics of American 6-7 Spectrum Scholarship fellow LHRT members and Sunday, June 24th in Librarianship Program (http:// learn more about the round Laguna B of the Hilton, is www.ala.org/offices/ table. Dominique will send “Public Libraries and Civil Award Nominations 8-9
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Greetings from the Chair, cont. provoking panel. The LHRT year to explore the possibility In conclusion, I’d like to thank Research Forum, organized by of starting a new journal for everyone who has contributed our vice chair, Mark McCallon, library history. This topic and to the success of LHRT this will take place at 1:30 p.m. that the recent changes at Libraries past year. Especially (but not same day and is entitled & the Cultural Record (now limited to) Norman Rose, our “Intellectual Freedom and entitled Information & ALA liaison; Bernadette Lear, Libraries in America and Culture) engendered a spirited our newsletter editor; the Abroad: Historical exchange on our listserv. Please members of the executive Perspectives.” For more join us for a full discussion of committee, the award information, please see the this important matter. Another committees, and the article below. significant agenda item will be membership and outreach the venue for the Library committee. I’ve enjoyed Finally, the round table’s History Seminar XIII. Or working with all of them. executive committee will hold rather the current lack thereof. its annual meeting on Sunday at If you’d like information about I look forward to seeing 8:00 a.m. at the La Jolla Room submitting a proposal for your everyone in Anaheim in June. in the Hilton. These are open institution to host this very —Tom Glynn, Rutgers meetings. All LHRT members important conference, to be University are very welcome to attend. held in 2015, contact our past One important item on the chair, Melanie Kimball agenda will be a report from (melanie.kimball@ the committee appointed last simmons.edu).
LHRT Research Forum
Please make plans to attend the • “From Inferno to Freedom: Sime Road Camp, 1942–1945,” 2012 LHRT Research Forum. Expanding Access in the Lim Peng Han, Loughborough It will be on Sunday, June 24th, Chicago Public Library, 1910- University 1:30–3:30 p.m. at the ALA 1936,” Eric Novotny, Penn • “Heat, Humility, and Hubris: Annual Conference in State University the Conundrum of the Fiske Anaheim, California. The • “Re-examining the Origins Report,” Joyce Latham, theme for this year’s LHRT of the Adoption of ALA’s Bill University of Wisconsin- Research Forum is “Intellectual of Rights,” Doug Campbell, Milwaukee Freedom and Libraries in University of North Texas —Mark McCallon, Abilene America and Abroad: • “The Japanese Occupation Christian University Historical Perspectives.” of Singapore and the Presentations at the forum will Forgotten Libraries at the include: Civilian Gaols at Changi and
PUBLISHING STATEMENT LHRT Newsletter (ISSN forthcoming) is the official newsletter of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. LHRT’s mission is to encourage research and publication on the history of libraries and promote awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship. LHRT Newsletter is an open-access, semi-annual publication, available free of charge at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/lhrt/popularresources/ lhrtnewsletters/lhrtnewsletters.cfm . LHRT members may obtain a paper copy upon request by contacting ALA’s Office for Research and Statistics, American Library Association, 60 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL, 60611 (phone: 1-800-545-2433, extension 4283). LHRT Newsletter is not currently indexed in Library Literature or other databases. All submissions are subject to editorial review, but authors are responsible for facts and opinions expressed in their articles. Views expressed in LHRT Newsletter do not necessarily reflect official LHRT or ALA policies and positions. Contact the editor, Bernadette A. Lear ([email protected]), with queries about advertising, submissions, and other concerns. Page 3 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2
Web Site Review: Paper Through Time
Homepage of Paper Through Time . Courtesy of the University of Iowa.
T. Barrett et. al, “Paper The primary goal of Paper Many pages in Paper Through Through Time,” http:// Through Time is to disseminate Time have photos, graphs, and paper.lib.uiowa.edu/ research, and so it is much tables that make it easier to index.php, (accessed May more academic than some of understand the authors’ 15, 2011). the sites I have reviewed research protocols and how previously. For example, there paper has changed over time. Paper Through Time is an effort is a lengthy “Procedures” My only suggestion for to document extensive testing section which explains how improvement would be to on paper from the 14th Barrett and his team selected include a brief summary at the through 19th centuries, more than 1,500 specimens beginning of each page, so undertaken in fall 2010 by from the University of Iowa’s readers can get a quick sense of Timothy Barrett and his and the Newberry Library’s what is going on. Overall I research team at the University collections, and used an XRF think this site is very enjoyable of Iowa, and funded in part spectrometer to measure and nicely laid out. It does a through the Institute of various elements and chemicals great job of showing how a Museum and Library Services. in the paper. They also used research project can be adapted The study began through a ultrasonic methods to predict to the web, and how realization that some historic the papers’ tensile strength. researchers can add more to papers are much more durable This said, the site includes the results they share by than others, but that no one material that could be easily choosing this format. I am fully understood why. I became understood by someone looking forward to seeing familiar with this project during without scientific research where this work goes in the my time at the University of experience. The “Background” future! Iowa Center for the Book. section of the site was of —Julia Skinner, Florida Although I toured the facilities particular interest to me, as it State University and talked with some people includes a substantial essay on involved with the project, I still papermaking techniques, learned a great deal from this including raw materials, retting, site. sheet forming, and other processes.
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Perspectives: Tropic of Cancer and Our Courage to Read
Several weeks ago, a friend and last seen scratched into Perhaps it is kismet that I I were sharing some of our bathroom stalls. Red-faced, I learned about Tropic of Cancer favorite library-related film shied away from further around the fiftieth anniversary of clips, music videos, and encounters with the text and the battle for its inclusion in television episodes. We played read around it instead. bookstores and libraries. I don’t a scene in Ghostbusters (1984) think that I would have been where Dan Akroyd, Bill First published in 1934, Tropic ready to read it in high school as Murray, and Harold Ramis of Cancer was (and still is) Jerry Seinfeld apparently was encounter an “apparition” in thought to be obscene by (heck, I’m not 100% sure I am the stacks of the “New many. In fact, its printing and able to get through it today!). York” (actually Los Angeles) distribution were illegal in But I am very thankful to know Public Library. We also much of the United States until about it. In nearly a decade of watched the music video for 1964 when the Supreme Court postsecondary education with Tears for Fears’ “Head Over overturned the rulings of advanced courses in American Heels” (1985) which was various lower courts (see Grove Studies, English, History, and filmed in a library at the Press, Inc. v. Gerstein , 378 U.S. Librarianship, I had never heard “The opening University of Toronto. Then 577). My own library’s 1940 of Henry Miller. I would bet that my friend found a 1991 Seinfeld copy, printed by “MEDVSA,” many LIS students today do not paragraph episode, in which Jerry is is a bootlegged edition. Yet know of him. In fact, Karl tracked down by a detective the library, literary, and social Orend argues that the absence of greeted me by (aptly named “Mr. Bookman”) importance of Miller’s work Miller in American college-level and forced to pay an overdue was immense. Through finding curricula betrays a “fundamental describing a man fine for an item he’d borrowed various articles in ALA Bulletin , misunderstanding of his work when he was in high school. Library Journal , and Wilson and the context of his who has body During the episode, several Library Bulletin —including a achievement,” thus leading to a wisecracks revolved around the reprint of ALA’s amicus curiae “seriously flawed version of lice.” book itself, Tropic of Cancer by brief to the Supreme Court (see literary history” (see Orend’s Henry Miller. Neither my April 1964 issue of ALA article in the Chronicle of friend nor I knew anything Bulletin )—I learned that Tropic Education , January 9, 2004). I about it, so I decided to learn of Cancer and related litigation couldn’t agree more. Although more. were top news in our many “boomers” within LHRT’s profession because of membership may not need to be I never imagined that I would implications for intellectual reminded of Tropic of Cancer , it be embarking on an intellectual freedom. Authors such as clearly deserves to be re-read and personal journey. Overall, Norman Mailer have identified into the record for those of us Tropic of Cancer describes the Miller as one of the most who came later. For my part, I exploits of a struggling author influential authors of the am taking time this summer to and other expatriates living in twentieth century, particularly acquaint myself with this Paris during the 1920s or because of his shocking prose. important book. 1930s. The book frankly Other literary critics have used —Bernadette A. Lear, Penn describes their experiences Miller to discuss the State Harrisburg with filth, homelessness, relationship between U.S. prostitution, and substance intellectuals/writers and abuse, some of many lenses European civilization—a into their despair over the fascinating pattern of thought status of modern civilization. for students of American For instance, the opening culture. Tropic of Cancer and its paragraph greeted me by portrayal of women have been describing a man who has body discussed by prominent lice. By page two I was reading feminists as well (see chapter 6 of the reproductive anatomy of of Kate Millett’s 1970 book, whales and bats. Thumbing Sexual Politics ). through subsequent chapters, I collided into many words I’d Page 5 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2
Avoiding Miller
“betrays a
‘fundamental
misunderstanding
of his work and
the context of his
achievement.’” Title page of a pirated 1940 edition of Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer . Courtesy of Bernadette A. Lear.
Library History Crossword
In the fall 2011 issue, we started a crossword puzzle Down contest. Despite a $25 gift 1. Author of the first Library card offered as a potential Bill of Rights — prize, we received absolutely SPAULDING no responses! Were the questions too difficult? 2. The library as “growing organism” was one of his Here are the answers: laws — RANGANATHAN
4. 1st print-to-speech reading Across machine — KURZWEIL 3. Founded OIF and FRF — ALLAIN 5. 1st African American LIS Ph.D. — GLEASON 6. Compiler of early periodical index — POOLE 8. Carnegie’s right hand — BERTRAM 7. Picture book medal (U.S.) — CALDECOTT If you would like to see other types of trivia in LHRT 9. SLA founder — DANA Newsletter, or you would like to contribute a puzzle of your 10. Morgan’s first librarian — own, feel free to contact the GREENE editor. —Bernadette A. Lear, Penn State Harrisburg
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Primary Source Spotlight: Classics of American Librarianship (1914-1933)
This week, I obtained a cheap as well as in the professional material could or should teach used copy of Rory Litwin’s literature, Bostwick knew that librarians. Still, the series’ Library Daylight: Tracings of “the classics of our profession publication history, the Modern Librarianship 1874-1922 , are little read, for the reason arrangement of reprints within a brief collection of reprinted that they are scattered.” In each volume, and Isabel L. professional articles, addresses, other words, everything in the Towner’s 1933 index to the set and other items written during series was “accessible provide some evidence of how the early years of our somewhere to somebody, but Bostwick and his colleagues profession. After entertaining there is a good reasons for conceptualized the profession. myself with pieces such as making it all accessible in one The list of volumes includes: “The Library Should Provide collected form to for the Reader that Smokes,” I everybody” (see preface to • Relationship between the Library began to wonder whether there Relationship between the Library and the Public Schools , edited by had been earlier attempts to and the Schools ). In addition to Arthur Elmore Bostwick republish library literature. selecting and arranging the (1914) “Selections [of Such selections not only articles, volume editors • Library Work with Children, provide a handy window into typically provided biographical edited by Alice Isabel Hazeltine library the past, but also illustrate how and contextual information (1917) previous generations have which was apparently difficult • Library and Society , edited by literature] … made sense of that past. to find back then (and Arthur Elmore Bostwick sometimes remains so today). (1920) illustrate how The earliest and most When completed, the series • Library and Its Organization , comprehensive collection I contained more than four edited by Gertrude Gilbert previous have found is Classics of thousand pages of articles, Drury (1924) American Librarianship , a ten- speeches, and other items. • Library and Its Contents , edited generations volume series begun in 1914 by Harriet Price Sawyer (1925) with a volume on outreach to I feel very fortunately that • Library without the Walls , edited have made sense public schools. Edited by Penn State owns most of the by Laura Janzow (1927) Arthur E. Bostwick and volumes, particularly since we • Library within the Walls , edited of the past.” published by H.W. Wilson, do not currently offer a library by Katharine Twining Moody each volume was compiled and science program. Our copies of (1929) annotated by staff of the St. Library Work with Children and • Library and Its Workers , edited Louis Public Library or its the Library and Its Contents were by Jessie Sargent McNiece related Library School. A donated by Elva Lucille (1929) former editor of various Bascom (1870-1944), possibly • Library and Its Home , edited by encyclopedias, Bostwick (1860- because she was an alumnae of Gertrude Gilbert Drury (1933) 1942) was a prolific author, so Allegheny College (Meadville, • Library as a Vocation , edited by it is no surprise he undertook PA) or because Penn State Harriet Price Sawyer (1933) such a massive project. operated a summer training • Cumulated Index to Volumes I- program for librarians at the X, compiled by Isabel L. Bostwick’s purpose in time. During the late 1920s and Towner (1933) compiling the Classics was to early 1930s, a Penn State identify papers which had librarian apparently purchased One thing that seems clear “played [a] part, either in most of the other volumes and from the title list is the primary making the modern library the index as they became importance of children’s what it is or in chronicling the available. librarianship (in school and changes that have brought it outside of school), followed by about, at the very time when Unfortunately, each of the ten library contents (in other those changes were made.” volumes contain only brief words, collection development Understanding that helpful prefaces, so it is often difficult and technical services). information might appear in to ascertain each compiler’s According to the preface in the annual reports, newspaper rationale for selecting certain volume about public schools, articles, and popular periodicals pieces over others, or what the information about children’s Page 7 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2
work was published first, “in collections and online services. that the Library and Its Workers response to what seems to be a However, in Bostwick’s time volume only contains two pieces general demand.” Not “within the walls” pertained to about “Women as Library surprisingly, given the reference service, while “without Workers,” but five articles missionary zeal expected of the walls” included circulation, written about the “training” of library women, concerns about open stacks, branch libraries, those women, nearly all written their status as “workers” or interlibrary loan, traveling libraries, by men? I am still perusing the their professional development and other “stations” in unusual series, and I would encourage any (or “vocation”) were printed places. Tellingly, services for library history student to take a last. “colored” and “foreign-born” look at them. patrons were also situated —Bernadette A. Lear, Penn As shown by volumes 6 and 7, “without” rather than “within” State Harrisburg librarians of the late 1920s had library walls. a different understanding than we currently do regarding One could spend hours musing “Today, we might libraries without walls. Today, over the selection and organization we might categorize “without of articles within volumes. For categorize walls” as involving digital instance, does it mean anything ‘without walls’
as involving
digital
collections …
However, in
Bostwick’s time
… ‘without
walls’ pertained
to circulation,
interlibrary
loan, traveling
libraries … [and]
services for
‘colored’ and
‘foreign-born’ Penn State’s copies of Classics of American Librarianship , edited by Arthur Elmore Bostwick. Courtesy of Bernadette A. Lear patrons.”
LHRT N EWSLETTER Page 8 This Year in Library History
Editor’s note: all dates are taken from Jeffrey M. Wilhite’s A Chronology of Librarianship, 1960-2000 (Scarecrow, 2009).
50 th anniversary of the founding of the Library and Information History Group of CILIP, the professional organization for librarians in the United Kingdom.
40 th anniversary of GODORT, ALA’s government documents round table.
35 th anniversary of the Center of the Book at the Library of Congress.
25 th anniversary of USA Today newspaper.
20 th anniversary of Maus , the first graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize. Originally serialized in 1980- 1991, it earned the Pulitzer in 1992.
15 th anniversary of the Digital Video Disk (DVD).
15 th anniversary of the founding of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has provided millions of dollars’ worth in computer hardware and internet connectivity to public libraries.
15 th anniversary of the founding of SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, an important advocate of affordable access to research publications.
Calls for Nominations: 2013 Phyllis Dain Dissertation Award
The Phyllis Dain Library the research questions and/ LHRT: Dain Award History Dissertation Award is or hypotheses; use of Committee presented by the ALA appropriate primary Office for Research and Library History Round Table resources; depth of research; Statistics and named in honor of a superior quality of writing; American Library library historian widely and significance of the Association known as a supportive conclusions. The round table 50 East Huron St. advisor and mentor as well as is particularly interested in Chicago, IL 60611 a rigorous scholar and dissertations that place the thinker. It recognizes subject within its broader Fax and e-mail submissions outstanding dissertations in historical, social, cultural, and are not acceptable. English in the general area of political context and make library history. $500 and a interdisciplinary connections The ALA Library History certificate are given for a with print culture and Round Table makes the work that embodies original information studies. award through its Phyllis research on a significant topic Dain Award Committee. relating to the history of The deadline for submissions The members of the 2013 libraries. is January 14th, 2013. Four Phyllis Dain Award copies of the dissertation and Committee are Jim Dissertations completed and a letter of support from the Carmichael (chair), Sterling accepted during the doctoral advisor or from Coleman, and Barry Seaver. preceding two academic years another faculty member at are eligible; e.g., dissertations the degree-granting from 2010-2011 and 2011- institution are required. 2012 will compete for the Receipt will be confirmed award in 2013. Entries are within four business days. judged on: clear definition of Submit manuscripts to: Page 9 VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2 Calls for Nominations, cont. 2013 Justin Winsor Essay Prize The Justin Winsor Prize Essay have been published from all other parts of the Award, first presented in 1979, previously, submitted for essay. Send either four hard honors the nineteenth-century publication, or be under copies or a Word or PDF e- Harvard librarian and former consideration for another mail attachment to: president of the American award. The winning essay will Library Association (ALA) and be well written, based on Norman Rose the American Historical primary sources, and will c/o Office for Research and Association (AHA). The reflect original historical Statistics winning author receives $100 research. Essays must conform American Library Association and a citation. The essay will be to the Chicago Manual of Style 50 E. Huron St. LHRT Awards considered for publication in and may not exceed thirty-five Chicago, Illinois 60611 Nominations Information & Culture: A Journal pages (exclusive of end-notes [email protected] of History (formerly Libraries & and a bibliography). They must ♦ Dain Deadline: the Cultural Record ). also be double-spaced and use The ALA Library History January 14th, 2013 12-point Times New Roman Round Table makes the award Essays submitted for font. through its Justin Winsor Prize ♦ consideration must address Essay Committee. The Gleason Deadline: subjects of significance in the The deadline for submissions is members of the 2013 Justin January 14th, 2013 history of libraries and January 31st, 2013. Those Winsor Prize Essay Award wishing to be considered for librarianship. Ideally, they Committee are: Tanya ♦ Winsor Deadline: should also feature an the prize should include a brief Finchum, Michael Gorman interdisciplinary connection to cover letter with contact (chair), and Fred Stielow. January 21st, 2013 print culture and information information and remove the studies. Submissions may not author’s name and affiliation 2013 Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award
What do the following titles have all other histories of that aspect Patti Clayton Becker in common: Louise Robbins’ The of library service. Gleason Award Committee Chair Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown, Carl University of Wisconsin-Stevens Ostrowski’s Books, Maps, and Entries for the 2013 award must Point Library Politics, and David Allan’s A have been published during the 900 Reserve St. Nation of Readers ? three previous years (i.e., Stevens Point, WI 54481 between January 1st, 2010 and [email protected] All three are recent winners of December 31st, 2012). the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Bibliographies and edited Receipt will be confirmed within 3 Award. The award is presented collections will not be business days. The Gleason Award by LHRT every third year to considered. Entries are judged Committee, a subcommittee of the recognize the best book written on quality of scholarship, clarity Research Committee of the Library in English in the field of library of style, depth of research, and History Round Table, serves as jury history, including the history of ability to place research findings for the award. The members of the libraries, librarianship, and in a broad social, cultural, and 2013 Gleason committee are Patti information science. The award political context. Becker (chair), Renate Chancellor, bears the name of Eliza Atkins and Steve Sowards. The winner will Gleason, the first African Nominations are welcome from be announced in a press release on or American to receive a Ph.D. all interested parties and should about June 1 st , 2013. Certificates from the Graduate Library include one copy of the honoring the author and publisher of School of the University of nominated volume (if possible) the Gleason Book Award winner will Chicago. Her book, The Southern and a brief statement explaining be presented at an LHRT event Negro and the Public Library why the book is worthy of during the 2013 ALA conference in (Chicago, Ill.: University of consideration for the Gleason Chicago. — Patti Becker, University Chicago Press, 1941), traced the Book Award. Nominations are of Wisconsin-Stevens Point history of library service to due on January 14th, 2013 and Library, Tom Glynn, Rutgers African Americans up to that should be sent to: University, and members of the time and laid the foundation for Gleason Award Committee Library History Round Table The Library History Round Table (LHRT) was Executive Board, 2011/2012 founded in 1947 to commemorate great library leaders of the past and to celebrate the importance of libraries in Chair Tom Glynn, Rutgers University society. Since then, LHRT members have critically [email protected] examined libraries and their services in light of class, culture, gender, geography, race, and other perspectives. Vice-Chair/ Mark McCallon , Abilene Christian University LHRT is an inclusive and diverse organization that Chair-Elect [email protected] supports anyone who is interested in the history of libraries. LHRT strives to further the study of history Past Chair Melanie Kimball , Simmons College [email protected] of libraries and reading through thought-provoking programs and monetary awards for outstanding Secretary/Treasurer Joyce Latham , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee research. We encourage library schools to incorporate [email protected] historical content and methodology in their curricula and to support students who are doing historical research. Secretary/Treasurer- Dominique Daniel , Oakland University Through involvement in LHRT we offer members the Elect [email protected] opportunity to network with colleagues interested in library history. LHRT members include librarians, Past Secretary/ Mark McCallon , Abilene Christian University archivists, curators, and others doing historical research; Treasurer [email protected] LIS students with a background or interest in history, faculty in LIS, the humanities, and related disciplines; Member-at-Large Eric Novotny, Penn State University Park [email protected] Administrators, staff, and volunteers working in historic libraries; and retirees. Member-at-Large Karen Cook , Clarion University [email protected]
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