Of his editing The Library Quarterly Abraham Bookstein, Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago noted: "Howard remained a humanist in a graduate school that came to have an increasingly quantitative orientation. "An example of this is the fact that for the many years he edited The Library Quarterly, he balanced the journal's often mathematical articles with cover designs featuring drawings of the elegant early printing devices about which he wrote so eloquently. I will always remember the encouragement he gave to me as a young quantitative scholar."
Dr. Howard W. Winger (1914–1995) was a prominent American library educator, historian of books and printing, professor, and longtime faculty member at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School (GLS). Dr. Winger's legacy was in bridging library practice, historical scholarship, and preservation at a leading institution during a transformative period for library education.
Dr. Winger was managing editor and editor of The Library Quarterly for many years, shaping its scholarly direction.
Read full tribute here: Dr. Howard Winger.
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In honor of the Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary of ALA) in 2026, the Library History Round Table is hosting Librarians We Have Lost, Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026. This collage of tributes seeks to honor librarians who died between 1976-2026. The tributes are published to ALA Connect, a digital memorial on LHRT News & Notes, and ALA's institutional repository (ALAIR).
We invite tributes from anyone about any library worker who passed away between 1976-2026. To submit a tribute, please use the form at https://lhrt.news/librarians-we-have-lost-sesquicentennial-memories-1976-2026-2/
For questions or comments, please reach out to Brett Spencer (dbs21@psu.edu) or Kathleen McCook (kmccook@usf.edu) or
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Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Distinguished University Professor
School of Information
University of South Florida
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