The ''Wilson Library Bulletin'' was a professional American

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

published for

librarian A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library providing access to information, and sometimes social or technical programming, or instruction on information literacy to users. The role of the librarian has changed much over time, ...

s from 1914 to 1995 by the

H. W. Wilson Company The H. W. Wilson Company, Inc. is a publisher and indexing company that was founded in 1898 and is located in The Bronx, New York. It provides print and digital content aimed at patrons of public school, college, and professional libraries in bot ...

, Bronx. NY. It began as ''The Wilson Bulletin'' and published occasionally. In its first volume were discussions about the library being as necessary to a high school as the gymnasium, and an article by Corinne Bacon on "What Makes a Novel Immoral?" In November 1928, its name became ''The Wilson Bulletin: A Magazine for Librarians''. Two years later it was renamed ''Wilson Bulletin for Librarians'' and in September 1939 the name changed again to ''Wilson Library Bulletin'' (WLB), the name by which it was known until it ceased publication in June 1995. WLB was noted for its beautiful covers (often photographs or original art); its publication of library-related cartoons; and its broad scope, covering the whole of librarianship. In its last decade of publication it became the first library periodical to carry a regular column about the internet (The Internet Cafe, written by Lee Ratzan), to include email addresses of contributors, and to explore the intersection of librarianship and online resources. Its first editor was Edith M. Phelps. Its second was the poet

Stanley Kunitz Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (; July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Biography Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massac ...

, and others included

Howard Haycraft Howard Haycraft (July 25, 1905November 12, 1991) was an American writer, editor, and publisher. Haycraft was born on July 24, 1905, in Madelia, Minnesota, to Marie (Stelzer) and Julius Everett Haycraft. He received a bachelor's degree from the ...

, Marie Loizeaux, Kathleen Molz, Milo Nelson, Mary Jo Godwin, GraceAnne A. DeCandido and William Robert Eshelman (1968–1978).

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