Archive for August, 2009

Number One Hundred

August 18th, 2009
This is my 100th post to the Library History Buff Blog. I started the blog on November 19, 2008 as a companion to the Library History Buff website. Both efforts have a goal of promoting the appreciation, enjoyment, and preservation of our library heritage. I am pleased with the relative success of the blog to date. Relative, that is, to other library history blogs which are almost non-existent. That success has been to a great extent the result of regular citations of blog posts by American Libraries Direct which is edited by George Eberhart. The members of the Library History Round Table of ALA have also been active readers of the blog. The most successful post of the 100 posts was Little Lyrics for Librarians. It was followed closely by the one on Charles Lummis & the Bibliosmiles. Recently the Carnegie Library Bed & Breakfasts post was very popular. The content for the blog comes mostly from my personal collection of librariana (especially postal librariana), my personal library of library history publications (researched by real library historians), the web (especially Google Books), and occasionally I drop by the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies Library or the Wisconsin Historical Society Library to do a little research. I cross post some content with the Library History Buff website and the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center website. I have enjoyed creating the 100 posts on the Library History Buff Blog, and I look forward to creating many more.

Package Libraries

August 17th, 2009
Following up on the theme of reference/information by mail discussed in the previous two entries, here is another approach to this activity. Package libraries were collections of pamphlets, pictures, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings on topics of current interest. These were mailed out (usually by university extension departments) upon request to individuals, women's clubs, debating groups, business people, rural schools, and libraries. Borrowers usually paid the return express charge for the package libraries. Package libraries were an innovation conceived by Frank A. Hutchins while serving as Secretary of the Department of Debating and Public Discussion in the newly created Extension Division of the University of Wisconsin in 1906. More on Wisconsin's package libraries can be found here. The concept of package libraries was implemented in other states including Indiana.

Let us pretend that you are living fairly near to a huge East Coast airport, and you certainly want to depart North America

August 17th, 2009

Let us pretend that you are living fairly near to a huge East Coast airport, and you certainly want to depart North America. There are straight scheduled flights from those major airports to main cities of the world.
But only few are going to have rates to be matching New York City. The amount of traffic from this particular city is unbelievable, and most of the international airways (even the little national airways or national airways of middle size) go into New York for rival considerations.

It is one more instance of operating short length spacing in order to save a lot of money. Famous budget transports such as Virgin Atlantic or Icelandair unceremoniously have based their most advantageous offers from New York.

Intend to request the similar principle when you are arriving. Why do you need to persist on disembarking in Paris when there is a much greater rate to Brussels? Anyway, on the next week, the opposite might be correct. A fast train trip between the two cities night really save you hundreds and hundreds of dollars. It’s always better to expend a few hours on a train if the economy will return me $150 or so for each and every hour, isn’t it?

You may as well take into account that it is also great money-wise to get a last minute deal. It also might essentially save your finances. So, together with a discount airport, the last minute deal can save you more, than just a discount airport. There are even more tips to save on your travel, but it’s better to first talk about airport reduction as one of the first steps to save money.

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Finding dirt cheap airway tickets

August 17th, 2009

For travelers with young hearts, the world’s exploration is an outstanding part of cognition experience and a memory from every destination for a life time. Traveling not only includes being away from home in a loosened atmosphere, it also includes a necessary and critical piece in comprehending of various cultures, races, and beliefs that are united in the different parts of the world. While using advantages of the best airfares that any traveler can receive through Internet, one can obtain a true incentive experience by simply traveling through the entire world. With some sharpness and pliability, any travelers may achieve their most favorite destinations without making a hole in their pockets. You can follow the advices if you don’t know anyone to ask for obtaining dirt cheap flight tickets proffers.

Of course, a traveler might simply receive airway tickets for a low price with a small price portion of usual airfares. By obtaining inexpensive airway tickets from these reduced airline offers and the nest-egg done on airfares travelers might receive some of the best impressions throughout the whole trip. And it is hard to slight such proffers that supply with airway tickets for dirt cheap prices. Travelers are now frequently successful in receiving different ranges from the fewer savings on the back home trips to the greater savings on large international trips. Until now, travelers have almost no equivalence in any other customer industry in terms of obtaining cheap airway tickets deals.

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Finding correct offers for cheap airway tickets and peculiar affinity is an art, but you may comprehend it in a very short time. Purchasing airway tickets at a cheap price is certainly a useful talent and one has to improve it, specifically ordinary people which can’t afford standard airfares while traveling. As it is mentioned above, the most important things in finding cheap plane tickets are flexibility and looking around for discounted plane rates altogether with using tested airplane travel dodges. Read through information on the travel industry and check the Internet tools that have increased around it to save big on plane tickets.

Be supple with your traveling time and dates. Leave couple of days earlier or later to save appreciably. Such offers for cheap plane tickets and some other particular features might still be obtainable on weekdays or on other not popular days. Elude Mondays, Fridays, and the Weekend – most business people are frequently traveling these days. Other weekdays might be much cheaper to travel. Also elude traveling when peak seasons last.

H. W. Wilson’s Cumulative Reference Library

August 15th, 2009

Phebe Swan's Gleaners' Library wasn't the only reference by mail library. The H. W. Wilson Company began publishing the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature in 1901. When Swan developed her reference by mail library in 1902 she relied heavily on this publication and the periodicals which it indexed. At some point either before or after Swan's library started loaning periodical articles by mail, the H. W. Wilson Company launched its Cumulative Reference Library which also loaned periodical articles by mail for a fee. The postal card above is an interesting postal item in that it has been sent through the mail on two occasions. It was initially mailed as an invoice by the H. W. Wilson Company to the Defiance Public Library in Ohio on March 11, 1908. The card was returned to Wilson with a 15 cent payment in a separate envelope. Wilson then mailed the card back to the library as a receipt for payment on March 17, 1908 with a one cent stamp affixed over the original pre-stamped one cent postage indicia.