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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Sent: 12/7/2025 7:42:00 AM
From: Kathleen McCook
Subject: Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019)-Founder of the ALA Archives
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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