Greetings!!!
We are pleased to announce the 2025 selections for ALA Library History Round Table (LHRT) Reads, the Library History Roundtable's media discussion club. We chose these titles based on your suggestions and are excited to read them along with you. The first title we will discuss:
April 10, 2025 - The Book at War by Andrew Pettegree
Other titles we will discuss this year:
May 2025 - Film (Title TBD)
June 5, 2025 - In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries by Wayne Wiegand
August 2025 - The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Book Publishing by Michael Castleman
October 2025 - The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Priss
We hope you'll be able to join us. We will send registration details for the first event soon. Stay tuned!
We would also like to share that LHRT has kindly allocated a small, limited fund to expand participation in LHRT Reads. If you would like to participate but cannot access the books from a local library or afford to allocate resources towards their purchase, please email the LHRT Reads co-organizers. Thanks to former LHRT Chair Bernadette Lear for spearheading this idea and the LHRT Executive Committee for its support of this initiative.
Michele Fenton and Amanda Belantara, LHRT Reads Co-Organizers
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Michele Fenton
Librarian I/Cataloger
Indiana State Library
Indianapolis, IN
mfenton@library.in.gov(317) 234-4937
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