The Library History Buff

Promoting the appreciation, enjoyment, and preservation of library history

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.

Also check out the Library History Buff Blog.

Featured Web pages on the Library History Buff Web site:

A 160th Anniversary Tribute to Melvil Dewey

Library Overdue Notices on Postal Cards

Library of Congress Philatelic Exhibit

The New York Public Library on Stamps

2010 - A Year in the Life of The Library History Buff

Circulating Library Trade Cards

Carnegie 175th Anniversary Tribute

Carnegie Libraries on Stamps

Chicago's Public Library

U.S. Libraries on Stamps

Philatelic Libraries

American Library Association History

Library Service to the Blind Using the Mail

A Place Called Library

The Rudolph Continuous Indexer

Tribute to the Bookmobile

Bibliophilately Resources

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.

Featured Library History Sites on the Web:

The Wisconsin Library Heritage Center
http://heritage.wisconsinlibraries.org/

Archives of the American Library Association
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/archives/ala/

Libraries Today - Canadian Library History
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~lbruce/

The Legacy of Public Libraries in North Carolina (Digital Collection of the NC State Library)
http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/dimp/digital/publiclibraries/index.html

Glenn A. Walsh’s Carnegie Library History Site
http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/

Carnegie Libraries in Iowa Project (CLIP)
http://clip.grad.uiowa.edu/

South Carolina Library History Project
http://www.libsci.sc.edu/histories/

Libraries & the Cultural Record (Journal) Home
http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~lcr/index.php

The Library Postcard site of Judy Aulik
http://home.comcast.net/~jaulik/index.html

Library Postcard Blog of Mark Jackson
http://librarypostcards.blogspot.com/

Library Cover Stories

"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 often have interesting stories that relate both to library history and postal history. On the home page of this website I told a library cover story for each month during the four year period 2007-2010 for a total of 48 library cover stories. Links to all of the library cover stories are below. In 2008 I created the Library History Buff blog as a companion to this website. I have realized that the blog is a more appropriate venue for these stories so I have decided to eliminate this feature on the Library History Buff website. So starting in January 2011, the Library History Buff blog is the place to find interesting stories about library covers.

Archive - Library Cover Stories for 2010

Archive - Library Cover Stories for 2009

Archive - Library Cover Stories for 2008

Archive - Library Cover Stories for 2007

The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) has indexed this site. To see the entry click here.

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