The
Library History Buff Home Page
A library history buff, also sometimes referred to as a library history nut, is an individual with a passion for library history and its artifacts. Larry T. Nix is the library history buff who created and maintains this Web site.
This site is divided into three broad categories. The "Library History" category includes Web pages with information about library history. The "Librariana" category includes Web pages with information about the collecting of library memorabilia and artifacts. The "Postal Librariana" category includes Web pages with information about the collecting of postal artifacts related to libraries.
Statistics and fun facts for The Library History Buff Web site.
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Featured Library History and Librariana Sites on the Web:
The Museum of Cataloging and Acquisitions Artifacts
http://www.heidihoerman.com/museumca/index.html
Pennsylvania Library History Project
(Bernadette Lear)
http://www.personal.psu.edu/bal19/plhp.htm
The Library Postcard site of Judy Aulik
http://home.comcast.net/~jaulik/index.html
Postcards of the New York Public Library
(Harvey Lynch)
http://www.nyplpostcard.com/
Featured Web pages on the Library History Buff Web site:
The Peterborough Town Library Celebrates 175 Years
Archives and Archivists on Postage Stamps
The Wisconsin Library Heritage Center
Unusual Uses of Old Library Catalog Cards
Support a postage stamp honoring an American librarian and/or America's librarians. Don't you get just a little bit upset that not a single American librarian has been judged worthy of being honored on a United States postage stamp?
Support a postage stamp honoring America's public libraries.
Library Cover
Story - May 2008
"Cover" is a
philatelic term for an envelope, postal card, or similar postal artifact that
has been sent through the mail (or is intended to be sent through the mail).
Philatelist often say every cover has a story. I collect covers related
to libraries, and I have found that these covers do often have very
interesting stories.
Covers like this one are referred to as civic advertising covers. They were used in the early 20th century to promote communities as desirable places to live and locate a business. This cover was produced by the Sheboygan Publishing Company to promote Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The first building depicted under the Wisconsin state name is the public library building in Sheboygan for which Andrew Carnegie donated $35,000 in 1901. All but a portion of the facade of the Carnegie building was razed in the late 1990s to make way for an expansion of the art museum. For more on civic advertising covers click here.
Archive - Library Cover
Stories for 2007 The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII)
has indexed this site. To see the entry click
here.
