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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Dr. Wiegand will be presenting "Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Missing Stories in American Library History" for the 2025-2026 Gryphon Lecture ! The Gryphon Lecture is hosted annually ...
We are delighted to let you know that Mark Carl Rom, who is creating profiles of female librarians for a book project as we recently highlighted, is going to be sharing new profiles ...
I'm Amanda Sprochi and I'm the LHRT liaison to the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee. This is the February report. Llano case: Subcommittee is compiling language from various ...
Save the date! LHRT is sponsoring a free webinar in honor of our friend and colleague Kathleen de la Peña McCook, whom you know from her recent leadership on the Librarians We ...
Here at the LHRT News & Notes blog, we recently became aware of an exciting book project about women in the making of public libraries by Dr. Mark Carl Rom ( https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tuxxu8YAAAAJ&hl=en ...
Diana Shonrock ( 1947-2026) was one of the leading voices at the Iowa State University library, where she worked in various capacities for more than 40 years. All who knew Diana ...
Greetings! Please join us online for The AL Library History Roundtable's (LHRT) media discussion group, LHRT Reads on Thursday, February 12th, 2026, at 7pm Eastern ...
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