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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 original library, opened in 1905, was a Carnegie Library and its building survives today: it is used by the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Ground was broken for the new library on June 3, 1987. [7] Then-Mayor Scotty Baesler noted that the new library project was the "most significant building in downtown."
It is one of 29 sites on a National Park Service-recommended list of places to visit in Lexington, "Lexington, Kentucky: Athens of the West, a National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. [3] The building is a 1906-built Classical Revival-style Carnegie library, at the south end of Gratz Park, designed by architect Herman L. Rowe.
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.
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. Historical articles appeared on the 50th anniversary in the journal, Libraries & Culture [5] and the 75th in the journal ...
Carnegie Corporation Library Program 1911–1961. New York: Carnegie Corporation. OCLC 1282382. Bobinski, George S. (1969). Carnegie Libraries: Their History and Impact on American Public Library Development. Chicago: American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0022-4. Jones, Theodore (1997). Carnegie Libraries Across America. New York: John ...
Moving the books from the former Margaret I. King Library to the new William T. Young Library was not an easy task. If stretched out from end-to-end, the number of books in the old library would snake from Lexington to St. Louis. [4] The university hired William B. Meyer, part of United Van Lines, to move 1.2 million volumes from four locations ...
"Historic Homes and Historic Sites in Lexington, KY". Horse Capital of the World: Lexington, Kentucky Convention and Visitors Bureau. 7 November 2011. "History – Waveland – Historic Sites – Kentucky State Parks". 6 November 2011. Kleber, John E. "Waveland." The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 1992. Print.