Academic library postcards, part II
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2019-08
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WILKINSON, Billy R.. Academic library postcards, part II. College & Research Libraries News, [S.l.], v. 50, n. 5, p. 363-371, aug. 2019. ISSN 2150-6698. Available at: <https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/22753/29345>. Date accessed: 04 nov. 2019. doi:https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.50.5.363.
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Scarce, rare, even precious, might be the words to describe library postcards with views of interiors of academic libraries. In the author’s November 1988 article in C&R.L News (pp. 646-651; please see for a general background on library postcards and those who collect them), a count of individual cards in two leading collections revealed that the largest number of cards of an academic library was 57 for the Low Library at Columbia University, in the author’s collection of 5,205 library postcards. The Judith E. Holliday Collection had 38 Low Library cards. These are in contrast to the 158 New York Public Library and 156 Boston Public Library cards gathered by the author and 48 NYPL and 75
Boston Public ones held by Holliday. In even greater contrast, both the Holliday and Wilkinson Collections have no interior views of that magnificent McKim, Mead and White building, the Low Library. How strange that the glorious marblecolumned Low Rotunda is missing in Postcard Land? Not even the Columbiana Room now in the Low Library has an interior card. Does anyone have a postcard with the Low Rotunda?