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Librarians we have lost

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Dec 16, 2025 02:17 PM
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Colleagues: I want to encourage and applaud the "Librarians We Have Lost" initiative Kathleen started, but I also want to add a word of caution. For my History Ph.D dissertation I chose a biography of a secondary figure in the Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft presidencies for several reasons: ...

RE: Frederick Wilfrid ("Wilf") Lancaster (1933 – 2013). Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories - 1976-2026

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Dec 16, 2025 01:45 PM
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> On Dec 16, 2025, at 11:25 AM, Wayne Wiegand wrote: > > Colleagues: > > I want to encourage and applaud the “Librarians We Have Lost” initiative Kathleen started, but I also want to add a word of caution. > > For my History Ph.D dissertation I chose a biography of a secondary figure in the Theodore ...

RE: Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019)-Founder of the ALA Archives

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Dec 07, 2025 08:49 PM
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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.

RE: ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee report for November, 2025

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Dec 02, 2025 08:10 PM
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I agree with Michael Gorman. For generations now, library leadership has been unwilling to openly discuss and deal with what influences existing power structures (political, cultural, economic, and social among many others) have on the practice of librarianship at all levels, preferring instead to peddle ...

RE: What do YOU think? Highpoints of 150 years of ALA?

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Nov 23, 2025 08:03 PM
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Whoops! Read Fiske in 1974, not 1954 ( when I was watching Howdy Doody on the B&W TV my parents had just purchased).

RE: What do YOU think? Highpoints of 150 years of ALA?

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Nov 22, 2025 08:09 PM
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Lemme add another low point-Marjorie Fiske's book on California school and public library censorship in the 1950s. It was heavily assigned in LIS programs for more than two decades (I read it in a Collection Development course in 1954), showed the 204 CA librarians interviewed heavily engaging in prior ...

RE: What do YOU think? Highpoints of 150 years of ALA?

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Nov 21, 2025 08:38 PM
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1. 1893 Chicago a world's Fair conference2. 1976 100th anniversary conference.3. Organization of SSRT (1969, I think) Anybody out there wanna name some low points? 1. 1891 conference 2. 1936 conference3. 1977 conference (Speaker conference) Wayne A. Wiegand

RE: Open Letter to the Editors of Libraries: Culture, History & Society

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Oct 07, 2025 08:55 AM
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Kathleen: Hey, maybe we did start a "conversation!" Thanks, Wayne

Further Thoughts

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Oct 04, 2025 05:12 PM
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I sent an "open letter" to ALA Connect/LHRT in hopes the subject would spark conversation about the "priority" LCHS gives "to community members as first authors, co-authors, and significant contributors to research and the writing process." I chose not to communicate my concerns privately because-in ...

Open Letter to the Editors of Libraries: Culture, History & Society

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Oct 02, 2025 11:06 AM
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Open Letter to the Editors of Libraries: Culture, History, and Society: The latest issue of LCHS just crossed my desk, and in it I read the following partial sentence on page v: "Recognizing that stories belong to the groups that experience them and not to non-group members…" I have absolutely no ...

RE: LHRT Reads | Join us next Thursday

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Mar 13, 2024 09:51 PM
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Reminder to all. The events Brenda described occurred three months after ALA passed the first version of its Library Bill of Rights. Wayne

RE: Virginia Lacy Jones-American Library Association Honorary Membership - 1976

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Feb 22, 2024 09:28 PM
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As I researched and wrote my next book, "In Silence or Indifference: Racism and Jim Crow Segregated Public School Libraries" (September, 2024), I came across scores of racist obstacles VLJ had to overcome within the library profession. She was a very impressive individual.

ALA Executive Board August 18 Statement re: safeguarding intellectual freedom and social justice

Posted By Wayne Wiegand Aug 23, 2021 03:45 PM
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I was very pleased to see the American Library Association's June 26, 2020, statement that "accepts and acknowledges its role in upholding unjust systems of racism and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color," but as I've said in at least one article I've published since that resolution ...