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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.
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]
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]
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.
Additional models of library historical analysis include The New York Public Library: A History of Its Founding and Early Years by Phyllis Dain, a work that exemplified institutional history and The Power and the Dignity: Librarianship and Katharine L. Sharp by Laurel Grotzinger, a biographical study.
She was the Johanna-Marie Frankel Curator for Race and Ethnicity at the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University from 2016 to 2021. [3] Phillips was Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Brown University Libraries from 2021 to 2024. [4] She is Associate Editor of the Library History Round Table journal, Libraries: Culture, History ...
Recognizes a library or library system which has made a significant effort to work with the labor community and by doing so has brought recognition to the history and contribution of the labor movement to the development of the United States. Joseph W. Lippincott Award. An annual award established in 1938 to a librarian for distinguished ...