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Hermina G. B. Anghelescu selected as the recipient of the LHRT Distinguished Service in Library History Award

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association has named Dr. Hermina G. B. Anghelescu as the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Service in Library History Award.

Eric C. Novotny selected as the recipient of the LHRT Innovation and Advocacy in Library History Award

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association has named Eric C. Novotny as the recipient of the 2025 Innovation and Advocacy in Library History Award.

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Dr. Emily D. Spunaugle selected as the 2025 Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award recipient

The 2025 Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award recipient is Dr. Emily D. Spunaugle for her dissertation, Printed for the Benefit: British Women’s Benevolent Publications in the Long Eighteenth Century.

Laura E. Helton's Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History selected as the winner of the Gleason Book Award in 2025

The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award is presented every three years by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association to the best book published in English in the three preceding years in the field of library history.

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Jonathan Victor Baldoza selected as the 2025 LHRT Justin Winsor Award Winner

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Library History Roundtable (LHRT) Justin Winsor Award Committee is pleased to announce Jonathan Victor Baldozar as this year’s essay award.

Michele Fenton and Brett Spencer to receive Innovation and Advocacy in Library History Award

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association is pleased to announce it has chosen two honorees for the Innovation and Advocacy in Library History Award, Michele Fenton and Brett Spencer.

2024 Distinguished Service in Library History Award presented to Wayne Wiegand

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association is pleased to announce it has bestowed the Distinguished Service in Library History Award in Wayne Wiegand.

Eve Lacey wins LHRT Donald G. Davis Article Award

The Library History Round Table of the American Library Association is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Donald G. Davis Article Award.

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Libraries without borders chronicled in Library History Round Table volume

CHICAGO — “ Libraries Without Borders: New Directions in Library History,” published by ALA Editions, is a remarkable collection of essays drawn from the Library History Seminar sponsored by the Library History Round Table (LHRT). Edited by Steven A...

Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Schultz named winner of the 2023 Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award

CHICAGO — The Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to announce that this year’s Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award winner is Dr. Alexandra "Alex" Schultz for her dissertation, “Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea...

LHRT announces new co-editors for Libraries: Culture, History, and Society (LCHS)

CHICAGO - The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association is proud to announce Dr. Nicole A. Cooke and Dr. Carol A. Leibiger as the new co-editors of its official peer-reviewed journal Libraries: Culture, History, and Society...

Alex H. Poole receives the 2022 LHRT Donald G. Davis Article Award

The Donald G. Davis Article Award Committee of the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to present the 2022 Davis Article Award to Alex H. Poole, Associate Professor of Information Science at Drexel...

Dr. Alex Poole named 2022 LHRT Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award winner

CHICAGO — The Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to announce that this year’s Justin Winsor Library History Essay Award winner is Dr. Alex H. Poole for his paper, “Will the day ever come when we will be judged on our merit and not on our...

LHRT presents the 2022 Gleason Book Award to Rebecka Taves Sheffield

CHICAGO — The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Committee of the Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the American Library Association (ALA) is pleased to present the 2022 Gleason Book Award to Rebecka Taves Sheffield, a senior policy advisor for the...

Wayne and Shirley Wiegand receive 2019 Gleason Book Award for history of integration of Southern public libraries

CHICAGO — The Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award Committee of the American Library Association (ALA) Library History Round Table (LHRT) is pleased to present the 2019 Gleason Book Award to Wayne A. Wiegand, F. William Summers Professor of Library and...