Greetings LHRT!
Thank you for another wonderful year of LHRT Reads! We are in the process of identifying titles for next year's LHRT Reads. We would love to hear from you. What library history titles would you like to discuss? Let us know by filling out this form.
In previous years, we read and discussed the following:
2021
- Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
- E.J. Josey: Transformational Leader by Renate Chancellor
- Freedom Libraries by Mike Selby
- The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
- Regina Anderson Andrews: Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Etheline Whitmire
- Information Hunters: When Librarians, Soldiers, and Spies Banded Together in World War II Europe by Kathy Peiss
2022
- The Meaning of the Library, edited by Alice Crawford
- The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
- Syria's Secret Library by Mike Thomson
- The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2023
- Toute la mémoire du monde by Alain Resnais
- Apostles of Culture: The Public Librarian and American Society, 1876-1920 by Dee Garrison
- American Public School Librarianship: A History by Wayne A. Wiegand
- Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age by Dennis Duncan
We will announce the selections in the new year. We look forward to hearing from you!
Amanda Belantara & Michele Fenton
LRHT 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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