"The ALA sesquicentennial is 2026. What books do people at ALA Connect identify as foundational to library services in the last 50 or so years?"
Responses have been posted at the Library History Round Table blog, LHRT News and Notes.
Foundational Books in Library Services – LHRT NEWS AND NOTES
A few highlights:
- Federal Policy and Library Support.
- Libraries and the Life of the Mind in America: Addresses Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the American Library Association.
- The Nature and Future of the Catalog
- Origins of American Academic Librarianship.
- Your Right to Know: The Call to Action.
- The Coretta Scott King Awards Book: From Vision to Reality.
- Envisioning a Nation Connected: Librarians Define the Public Interest in the Information Superhighway.
- Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History.
- Our Enduring Values: Librarianship in the 21st Century.
- Libraries & Democracy: The Cornerstones of Liberty.
- Libraries to the People: Histories of Outreach.
- Libraries in Times of War, Revolution, and Social Change.
- Librarianship and Human Rights: A Twenty-First Century Guide.
- Tribal Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Preserving Our Language, Memory, and Lifeways.
- Progressive Library Organizations: A Worldwide History.
- Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library.
- Which Side Are You on? Seven Social Responsibility Debates in American Librarianship, 1990-2015.
- The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World.
- Library Services and Incarceration: Recognizing Barriers, Strengthening Access.
- Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice.
Can you think of other foundational works that should be added? If so, please email the Library History Round Table "News and Notes" editor at at lhrtnewsandnotes@gmail.com
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor
School of Information
University of South Florida
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