LHRT (Library History Round Table)

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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.

Learn more about LHRT on the ALA website.

  • 1.  Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019)-Founder of the ALA Archives

    Posted Dec 07, 2025 06:42 AM
    Maynard Brichford

    Librarians We Have Lost

    Maynard J. Brichford, founder of the American Library association Archives.

    The Maynard J. Brichford  tribute is posted at the ALA Institutional Repository and at  The Library History Round Table blog:

     Librarians We Have Lost, Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026, Digital Memorial



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    Kathleen de la Peña McCook
    Distinguished University Professor
    School of Information
    University of South Florida
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  • 2.  RE: Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019)-Founder of the ALA Archives

    Posted Dec 07, 2025 08:50 PM
    Maynard was a good soul and a great archivist.  Without his initiative and given ALA's relative indifference to its own history, ALA's archive would probably still be unorganized, untended, and poorly cared for somewhere in  Chicago.



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