Michelle Anne Lahey, 1957 – 2019
September 29, 1957 – February 13, 2019 Michelle Lahey died on the evening of February 13, 2019 after fighting a gallant battle with ALS. For more than 15 years, Michelle was a member of the Linda Hall Library’s public services staff, retiring in July 2018...
Linda Hall Library Announces 2018-19 Research Fellows
The Linda Hall Library is pleased to announce the recipients of its research fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year. These scholars will receive financial support to travel to Kansas City and use the Library’s extensive collections of monographs, journals, and rare...
Eliseo Fernandez, 1935 – 2017
Eliseo Fernandez, a member of the Linda Hall Library staff for nearly 50 years, passed away on May 13, 2017. Fernandez migrated from Argentina as a 22-year-old student in 1957 and lived in New York City for five years, before returning to Argentina. Fernandez returned...
Shipman Award Winners Come Together on Penguin Research Project
From opposite ends of metropolitan Kansas City, teacher Rebecca Groebe and student Andrea Dahl came together to work on a research project that has been presented with the Linda Hall Library’s Joseph C. Shipman Award at the 2017 Greater Kansas City Science &...
Spring Programs Will Solve Mysteries
“Mystery” may be the keyword for the Library’s spring program schedule, ranging from the mystery of faith and science to solving mysteries with forensic science. Programs include Baylor anthropologist Lori Baker, who founded the International Consortium for Forensic...
LHL Acquisitions Include Books on Bees, Nineteenth-Century Mail Delivery
Over the past three months, the Linda Hall Library has added six new volumes to its rare book collection, ranging from bees to lathing for women. All of the books were published in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and cover life sciences, engineering, and...
Library Welcomes Two New Fellows
The Linda Hall Library will soon welcome the first of two fellows from the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Based in Philadelphia, the Consortium offers promising young scholars access to outstanding collections through its fellowship...