Call for Nominations

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Eliza Atkins Gleason Award: December 15, 2024

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the 91´«Ã½ invites nominations for the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award. The Gleason Award is presented every third year to recognize the best monograph in English in the field of library history. Books first published in 2022, 2023, and 2024 are eligible for the award in 2025. Bibliographies and edited collections cannot be considered.

Nominations are welcome from all interested parties and should include a brief statement explaining why the book is worthy of consideration for the Gleason Book Award. Before submitting a nomination, please contact the committee chair, Catherine J. Minter, at cjminter@iu.edu, to see if the book you would like to nominate is already under consideration for the award in 2025.

Nominations are due on December 15, 2024. Selection of an award winner will be made no later than April 1, 2025. The winner will be announced in a press release on or about June 1, 2025. Certificates honoring the author and publisher of the Gleason Book Award winner will be presented at a Library History Round Table awards ceremony during the 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference in 2025.

Please direct any questions to Catherine J. Minter, at cjminter@iu.edu.

Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award: January 31, 2025

The Library History Round Table (LHRT) of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) sponsors the biennial Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award. The award, named in honor of a library historian widely known as a supportive advisor and mentor as well as a rigorous scholar and thinker, recognizes outstanding dissertations in English in the general area of library history. The author of the selected dissertation will receive a certificate and five hundred dollars.

Nominations for the 2025 Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award will open in January 2025, with a submission deadline of January 31, 2025. Applicants will be asked to submit one electronic copy of the approved and signed dissertation and a signed letter of support from the doctoral advisor or dissertation committee chair at the degree-granting institution. Dissertations completed and accepted during the preceding two academic years (2023 and 2024) are eligible.

Dissertations must be original research on a significant topic relating to the history of libraries during any period, in any region of the world. Entries are judged on clear definition of research questions and/or hypotheses, use of appropriate primary resources, depth of research, superior quality of writing, and significance of conclusions. The LHRT is particularly interested in dissertations that place the subject within its broader historical, social, cultural, and political context and that make interdisciplinary connections with print culture and/or information studies.

Mission

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LHRT encourages research and publication on library history and promotes awareness and discussion of historical issues in librarianship.

Libraries: Culture, History, and Society

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is peer-reviewed publication of the Library History Round Table of the 91´«Ã½ and the Penn State University Press, LCHS is available in print and online via JSTOR and Project Muse.

The only journal in the United States devoted to library history, LCHS positions library history as its own field of scholarship, while bringing together scholars from many disciplines to examine the history of libraries as institutions, collections, and services, as well as the experiences of library employees and users. There are no limits of time period or geography, and libraries of every type are included (private, public, corporate, academic, and school libraries, and special collections). In addition to Library Science, the journal welcomes contributors from History, English, Literary Studies, Education, Sociology, Gender/Women’s Studies, Race/Ethnic Studies, Political Science, Architecture, and other disciplines.
Manuscripts must be submitted electronically through LCHS’s Editorial Manager system at . They must also conform to the instructions for authors at . New scholars, and authors whose work is in the "idea" stage, are welcomed to contact the editors if they would like guidance prior to submission.

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Staff Contact

Danielle Ponton
Program Manager for Round Tables
dponton@ala.org