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.
Learn more about LHRT on the ALA website.
Keyes DeWitt Metcalf was acknowledged as one of the country's foremost librarians. Upon his retirement, Dr. Nathan M. Pusey, then the president of Harvard, praised him for having ...
Philip Hofer (1898-1984) Philip Hofer was a book collector, librarian, and founder and first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, ...
In the heart of Norway's oldest town, twenty years ago, during the World Library and Information Congress in Oslo in 2005, a moment of intellectual and personal connection was ...
"Rafaela Castro was born in Bakersfield, California, but had lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent two years in Brazil with the Peace Corps before receiving ...
Dr. Arnulfo Trejo (August 15, 1922 – July 5, 2002) You can find prior coverage of Dr. Trejo on the Librarians We Have Lost digital memorial ( https://lhrt.news/librarians-we-have-lost-sesquicentennial-memories-1976-2026/ ...
I'm Amanda Sprochi and I'm the LHRT liaison to the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. This is the December report. Llano case: Group is researching other documents to strengthen ...
Colleagues: I want to encourage and applaud the "Librarians We Have Lost" initiative Kathleen started, but I also want to add a word of caution. For my History Ph.D dissertation ...
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