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Am Lib Assn Archives @ALA_Archives

Home to the records of the American Library Association and its members since 1973 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a program of @UIarchives.

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There's a special rate of $2.50 per day at the Aldine Hotel in Philadelphia for ALA members attending the 1897 Annual Conference! What a deal! (Found in the 1897 ALA Annual Conference program book).
Black and white advertisement of the Aldine Hotel.

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Are your papers all over the place? Get your hands on a W. D. Ready binder! Temporary and permanent binders for every purpose 🤩 (From the 1897 ALA Annual Conference program book.)
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#ThrowbackThursday! Here is a photo of children in Czechoslovakia reading a book from a treasure chest received from the United States in circa 1944. tinyurl.com/yc2ywpp8
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#LibraryPostcardMonday! Here is a very fine card of the Nichols Memorial Library in Centre Harbor in New Hampshire from 1918. tinyurl.com/m6j36vfu
Color postcard of the Nichols Memorial Library.

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Need to upgrade your workstation? Get the new (as of 1897) Hammond No. 2 typewriter! "Used exclusively by all the prominent Library in the United States and England. The only machine that can and does meet all the requirements of Library Card Indexing." Amazing!
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#ThrowbackThursday! Here is a portrait of librarian Dr. Alfred Kaiming Chiu (Kaiming Qiu) from circa 1923 when he was the librarian at Amoy University Library in China. tinyurl.com/47pefa4b
Black and white photograph of Dr. Alfred Kaiming Chiu (Kaiming Qiu).

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#LibraryPostcardMonday! We have a postcard of the Berlin Public Library in New Hampshire from circa 1905. tinyurl.com/mrru8x6e
Color postcard of the Berlin Public Library in New Hampshire.

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It's all about #ArchivesPatterns for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty! And we have plenty of photos of librarians in some stunning patterns!
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#ThrowbackThursday! Here is a photo of Helen Cornwell Silliman, Elizabeth Shepard Loveland, and Grace Fisher Leonard, students of the class of 1895 of the New York State Library School. tinyurl.com/yhd6636s
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#LibraryPostcardMonday! Here is a card from circa 1905 of the Carnegie Library in Bellingham, Washington! tinyurl.com/49e64bzk
Color postcard of the Bellingham Carnegie Library.

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#ThrowbackThursday! Here is a portrait of Katharine Sharp, an early university librarian and first director of the library school at the University of Illinois. tinyurl.com/u3jsr8uh @iSchoolUI @IllinoisLibrary
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Come do research at @IllinoisLibrary! The application period for a 2024-25 travel grant to conduct research using any of the University Library's collections, which includes the ALA Archives, is now open! Go to tinyurl.com/2j3z99am for more info or contact @illinoisHPNL.
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It's time for an #ArchivesHashTagParty! These librarians loved a good hike before an #ArchivesCampfire! They went hiking at @MountRainierNPS after the 1925 ALA Conference in Seattle.
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#LibraryPostcardMonday! Here is a 1908 card of the Alameda Public Library! tinyurl.com/2p93c6dx
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Going through old Newbery-Caldecott banquet files and came across this great banquet program from 1976, the illustration by Leo and Diane Dillon, winners of the Caldecott Medal that year!
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#LibraryPostcardMonday! Today we have a 1907 postcard of the Greensboro Public Library in North Carolina. tinyurl.com/3scjabzz
Color postcard of a library building.

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It's #LibraryPostcardMonday! Today we have a 1907 postcard of the Fargo Carnegie Library in North Dakota. tinyurl.com/ycxszdt5
Color postcard of a library building.

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The ALA Archives will be closed tomorrow in observance of the 4th of July holiday and on July 5th. We'll reopen on Monday for all of your library history research needs!
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#LibraryPostcardMonday! Here is a 1905 postcard of a library close to our archives (and hearts), the Champaign Public Library! tinyurl.com/ynx5tbm8 @ChampaignPubLib
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#ThrowbackThursday! Here is a 1992 photo of the ALA Gay and Lesbian Task Force marching in the San Francisco Pride March. tinyurl.com/2snp4xm9 @GLBTRT
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