Reading the Library Hall of Fame article I noticed the super classy wordmark that LJ was using inside the magazine in 1951. Serious design swoon over here.
It was a bit small so I recreated it in hopes that someone from LJ will see this and revive this lost treasure.
Futura Medium with ultra wide kerning. Easy on the eyes.
On March 15, 1951 Library Journal recognized “40 leaders of the library movement” in a Library Hall of Fame. Did you know we have a hall of fame? I didn’t. It was created to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the ALA. Or, as the article spells, A.L.A.
Step back before you nominate yourself:
It has been agreed that this present list should not include the living, however obvious and significant had been their contribution. The list, which such additions, would promptly be doubled.
There are some really neat sounding people included and some great trivia. For instance, I didn’t know that Josephus N. Larned was the first person to use the Dewey Decimal system to classify an entire collection. Judson T. Jennings “gave young men the feeling that librarianship was not exclusively a woman’s job” and set up camp libraries in Germany during World War I.
Give it a read. Here’s a microfiche scan of the Library Hall of Fame article. [PDF] Note the continuous pagination!
There’s a very short Wikipedia article on the Library Hall of Fame too.
The best part about the article? Seven pages of Library Journal with no ads.
“Pin Pres is a kid’s room shelf that makes the act of sorting up the room a playful experience where the shelf adopts its form to the toys, books and other things that are being stored.”
I clicked around the ALA Midwinter website a bit and, I’ll be darned, I got a pretty nice feeling from it.
A nice statement from Fiona Bradley’s Why “What I didn’t learn in library school” doesn’t really matter, with a caveat.
How did this happen? The original painted letters were covered with a sign. Then someone painted white around the sign. Then the sign was removed.
I wonder what’s next. Whatever it is I doubt it’ll be as rad as oversized black letters set in Helvetica Bold against white.
These are pairs of groups of books wrapped and meant to be checked out and unwrapped at home. With RFID they can be checked out while still wrapped, and without the patron knowing what they are (unless they look at the checkout screen or slip). – Todd Mecklem.
