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The Library History Round Table encourages research and publication on library history and promotes awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship. It "exists to facilitate communication among scholars and students of library history, to support research in library history, and to be active in issues, such as preservation, that concern library historians."
The Library History Round Table official peer-reviewed journal is Libraries: Culture, History, and Society. [2] LHRT News and Notes is the blog of the Library History Round Table. [3] The Library History Round Table publishes the "Bibliography of Library History" database. [4] The Library History Round Table, was established in 1947.
Library history is a subdiscipline within library science and library and information science focusing on the history of libraries and their role in societies and cultures. [1] Some see the field as a subset of information history . [ 2 ]
The Library History Round Table also sponsors the Justin Winsor Prize (library). The Library History Round Table, was established in 1947. Historical articles appeared on the 50th anniversary in the journal, Libraries & Culture [3] and the 75th in the journal, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society. [4] [5]
In this position, he emphasized the need for trained professionals and provided a rationale for the need for libraries in combating attacks on American morals and social standards. The Library History Round Table of the ALA awards the "Justin Winsor Prize", established in 1978, for exceptional library history essays.
Shores and Wayne Shirley were instrumental in founding the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association in 1947. [15] In 1961 Shores founded the Library History Seminars. [16] One of the highlights of Shore's career was the American Library Association accreditation of his Library School at FSU in 1953. [17]
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
The Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) is an American Library Association membership group that provides a forum for discussing issues and sharing ideas around government information. [1] GODORT began as the Task Force of Government Publications of the Social Responsibilities Round Table.