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”
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- Librarians, Segregated: The 1936 ALA Annual Conference
- 15 Years of Fear: The ALA and the Patriot Act
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2022
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2021
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- “Librarians Are More Freedom Fighters Than Shushers”: Carla Hayden
- Publications: Children's Books for General Reading, 1924-1929
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- Social Gatherings of Times Past: Century 21 Exposition (Seattle, 1962)
- Publications: Library Video Magazine, 1986-1990
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2019
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- Traveling Libraries: The Library Extension Board and Rural Library Service
- Publications: Manual of Library Economy, 1911-1930
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- Publications: Reading with a Purpose, Numbers 48 to 68
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- Publications: Reading for an Age of Change Advertisements, 1961-1966
- Publications: Reading for an Age of Change, 1962-1968
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2018
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- Out of the Closet & Onto the Shelves: Librarians and the Oldest Gay Professional Organization in the U.S.
- Publications: SRRT Newsletter
July
- Just for Fun: 22 Steps to Build Your Own Public Library
- Library Life: The Arthur Plotnik Photographs
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2017
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- “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
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2016
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- 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".
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May
- Celebrating 140 Years of the ALA
- Oh the Things You Will Find...Preserving Materials at the ALA Archives
June
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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
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2015
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- Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015): Live Long and Prosper
- Action, Not Reaction: Integrating the Library Profession
March
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- 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"
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- Audiovisual Collections at the ALA Archives
- "Give the Next Man a Chance!" The Circulating Books of World War I
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- Burton E. Stevenson: ALA Representative in Europe
- Library/USA Exhibit at the 1964-5 New York World’s Fair
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- “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
December
- Announcing Digitized Chinese-American Librarian Association Newsletters!
- Library Buildings: Altgeld Hall, University of Illinois