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Tag: Hospital Ward Service

The ALA and World War II

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Angela Jordan

With the help of the American Red Cross and the United Service organizations, the ALA collected 17 million volumes during its 1942-43 Victory Book Campaign. Continue reading “The ALA and World War II” →

Posted in ALA HistoryTagged American Library Association, Hospital Ward Service, library extension, World War II

2023

January

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2022

April

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June

  • 100 Years of the Newbery: Letters from the Authors

July

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October

  • The McCormick Mansion

December

  • Elizabeth Martinez, ALA Executive Director

2021

July

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August

  • A Short History of ALA Headquarters

September

  • Oral Histories at the ALA Archives

November

  • The LeRoy C. Merritt Humanitarian Fund

2020

January

  • Publications: Readers and Primers, 1929-1933

February

  • “Librarians Are More Freedom Fighters Than Shushers”: Carla Hayden
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March

  • Publications: Recent Children's Books, 1925-1939

April

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May

  • Social Gatherings of Times Past: Century 21 Exposition (Seattle, 1962)
  • Publications: Library Video Magazine, 1986-1990

June

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July

  • Publications: Interpreting America, 1942-1947

August

  • You've Got Mail: Carnegie Libraries, As Seen Through Library Postcards

October

  • Spooky Stacks: Viewing Haunted Libraries of the Midwest through Library Postcards

2019

January

  • Publications: Library Tracts, 1900-1910

February

  • 50 Years of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards
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March

  • Just for Fun: Librarianship Theater
  • Publications: Booklist Books, 1919-1940

April

  • Publications: Foreign Book Lists, 1898-1927

May

  • Publications: Pamphlets of The Committee on Library Work with the Foreign Born, 1924-1929

June

  • Traveling Libraries: The Library Extension Board and Rural Library Service
  • Publications: Manual of Library Economy, 1911-1930

July

  • Publications: Viewpoints, 1919-1925

August

  • Publications: Library Curriculum Studies, 1927-1930

September

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October

  • Publications: Reading for an Age of Change Advertisements, 1961-1966
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November

  • Publications: Planning for Libraries, 1943-1948

December

  • Publications: Gifts for Children's Book-Shelves, 1922-1941

2018

January

  • Richard Lee's Cartoons: Illustrations of Librarian Humor

February

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March

  • Lotsee Patterson: Advocate for Library Services for Native Americans

April

  • Publications: The Art and Literature of the 1938 Science Booklist for Boys and Girls

May

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June

  • Out of the Closet & Onto the Shelves: Librarians and the Oldest Gay Professional Organization in the U.S.
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July

  • Just for Fun: 22 Steps to Build Your Own Public Library
  • Library Life: The Arthur Plotnik Photographs

August

  • Publications: Newsletters of the Office of Federal Relations and Washington Office

September

  • Research Strategies: Finding Hispanic Heritage Materials at the ALA Archives

October

  • Publications: Library Extension Board Publications

November

  • Ghosts of Disasters Past: Floods, Hurricanes, and Earthquakes of American Library History

2017

January

  • The ALA Mexican Border Traveling Library Service
  • Publications: COGNOTES

February

  • “First Your Country, Then Your Rights”: African American Soldiers in WWI
  • Research Strategies: Finding African American History Materials at the ALA Archives
  • Publications: The Black Caucus Newsletter

March

  • The Books They Read: Library War Service in WWI
  • Publications: The Newsletters of Women in Libraries and Women Library Workers

April

  • Nathaniel L. Goodrich Scrapbooks, 1881-1902
  • Publications: Library War Service Publications
  • Commemorating the Library War Service

May

  • The A.L.A. and Armed Services Librarianship
  • Publications: Chinese-American and Asian Pacific American Librarian Publications
  • Research Strategies: Finding Asian American and Pacific Heritage Materials at the ALA Archives

June

  • Increasing Morale: Hospital Library Service in WWI

July

  • Publications: News Notes and Footnotes Newsletters, 1966-2015

August

  • Publications: A.L.A. Headquarters Staff Association Files and Headquarters Publications

September

  • 35 Years of Banned Books Week
  • Publications: REFORMA Newsletter

October

  • American Archives Month 2017

November

  • Publications: American Indian Libraries Newsletter

December

  • Publications: IRRT Newsletter, Leads, and International Leads

2016

January

  • Mary Wright Plummer

February

  • Clara S. Jones: "Awareness is Not Burdened with Repression; It is Liberating"
  • Preserving the Nearly Immortal Life of A.A.L.S. Headquarters Tour Guide and Mascot "Prissy".

March

  • Behind the Scenes at the Archives: Processing a Poster Series

April

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May

  • Celebrating 140 Years of the ALA
  • Oh the Things You Will Find...Preserving Materials at the ALA Archives

June

  • Life Imitating Archives
  • "Call for a Library Conference": The 1876 ALA Conference

July

  • Research Strategies: The Reference Library of the ALA Archives (Bookcase One of Two)

August

  • Research Strategies: The Reference Library of the ALA Archives (Bookcase Two of Two)

September

  • "Beyond the Hopes or Plans": ALA at the 1893 World's Fair
  • Research Strategies: Navigating a Record Series Structure

October

  • Activism and Advocacy in ALA: Women's Organizations
  • Research Strategies: Reading and Accessing Database Records
  • New Digital Exhibit: Celebrating the Organizers!

November

  • "Public Library of the High Seas": ALA and the American Merchant Marine Library Association
  • Research Strategies: Publications About the A.L.A. and Librarianship

December

  • The Gift of Literacy: Lutie E. Stearns
  • Research Strategies: Publications of the A.L.A.

2015

January

  • Snowed in at Midwinter: the ALA Players
  • Daniel W. Lester Library Postcard Collection

February

  • Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): Live Long and Prosper
  • Action, Not Reaction: Integrating the Library Profession

March

  • Faxon's Traveling Conference Albums

April

  • Celebrating National Bookmobile Day at the ALA Archives
  • National Library Workers Day: "Libraries Work Because We Do!"
  • National Library Week: "For a Better-Read, Better-Informed America"

May

  • Tour of the ALA to the Pacific Coast

June

  • "Develop the Power that is Within You": The Harvey Dunn Poster Campaign

July

  • "The First Convention of the Kind": The 1853 Librarians' Convention

August

  • A Library Card for Every Child: Library Card Sign-Up Month

September

  • #AskAnArchivist Day

October

  • American Archives Month: Tell Your Story

November

  • Founding the ALA Archives, 1966-1973

December

  • Happy Birthday, Melvil!

2014

January

  • Audiovisual Collections at the ALA Archives
  • "Give the Next Man a Chance!" The Circulating Books of World War I

February

  • Library War Service slides collection now online and browsable

March

  • New Accessions at the Archives

April

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  • Librarians in Uniform

May

  • Books on Wheels

June

  • Ode to the Conference Program
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July

  • Miss “Public Libraries” Mary Eileen Ahern

August

  • Knapp School Libraries Project

September

  • Burton E. Stevenson: ALA Representative in Europe
  • Library/USA Exhibit at the 1964-5 New York World’s Fair

October

  • Library Service for the Blind

November

  • Freedom to Read Foundation: 45 Years
  • We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing

December

  • When Books Went to War: Librarians in WWII

2013

May

  • Madam President

June

  • "To meet him was to always meet an old friend": F. W. Faxon
  • American Library in Paris

September

  • “The Best Man in America is a Woman": Katharine L. Sharp and the First "Lady Librarians"
  • Banned Books Week
  • “Capturing our Stories” Librarian Oral Histories Project Added to ALA Archives’ Digital Holdings

October

  • "Lots of Love (of both the revolutionary and non-revolutionary kind)": the History of the ALA's GLBT Round Table
  • 40 Years of ALA Archives at the U of I
  • Have you a card catalog? Katharine L. Sharp’s Catechism for Librarians

November

  • Early ALA Posters now Digitized and Online
  • After the Eleventh Hour

December

  • Announcing Digitized Chinese-American Librarian Association Newsletters!
  • Library Buildings: Altgeld Hall, University of Illinois

2012

September

  • Have Books, Will Travel

October

  • Libraries During the Great Depression
  • A Book for Every Man

November

  • The ALA and World War II

December

  • A Testimony of Friendship
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