LHRT (Library History Round Table)

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The mission of the Library History Round Table (LHRT) is to encourage research and publication on library history and promote awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship.

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  • 1.  any interest in old DDC and other tech services materials?

    Posted Jan 13, 2022 08:28 AM
    Our tech services department will be undergoing a relocation later this year so we are looking at what we will need to move and what we will need to let go.  We have a collection of  books on cataloging, filing rules, and automation spanning the 1960s-1980s, DDC volumes back to the 9th edition, and bound cataloging journals going back into the 1940s.  I plan to work up a list of what we have if there is any interest in them.  Are there any libraries out there that are curating a collection on the history of library technical services?  Or should we just recycle the lot of them?

    Thank you all for any assistance you can provide.

     

    Ben Brick  |  Collection Processing Manager

    Omaha Public Library

    215 S. 15th St., Omaha, NE 68102

    402.444.4997  | omahalibrary.org

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    Ben Brick
    Collection Processing Manager
    Omaha Public Library
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  • 2.  RE: any interest in old DDC and other tech services materials?

    Posted Jan 14, 2022 09:26 AM
    Hold off destroying them and let me try to call around to see if anyone wants them in this neighborhood. Perhaps a school of library science which has some interest in teaching history. I doubt my director will allow me to take them for our library, but I have an interest in the history of technology and information control. These materials are ideal for that topic and it is the subarea I think is the most important one for our field. (Sorry, not sorry.)
    If you want to email me directly do so, I am not in the office until Feb 1.


    David E. Woolwine, Ph.D., M.L.S
    Professor of Library Services and Reference Librarian
    902K Axinn Library
    Hofstra University
    Hempstead, NY 11549-1230
    516-463-6431
     
    Subject Librarian for Africana Studies, Anthropology, Criminology, Open Access, Philosophy, Religion, and Sociology.
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