In this special episode of How I Library, show host Phil Morehart from the American Library Association (ALA) speaks with library historian and author Wayne Wiegand about the beginnings of ALA as the Association celebrates its 150th anniversary.
In 1876, 103 librarians gathered in Philadelphia to create a new association for librarians. One hundred and fifty years later, the American Library Association has endured to help shape both the library profession and American history.
In this first in a series of four bonus How I Library episodes on ALA history, Morehart and Wiegand explore the rich, fascinating early years of ALA and its complicated founders, ALA’s impact on librarianship, the role of ALA and librarians during WWI, and much more.
