Library Hand

Goodwill Librarian

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Fun Fact: Librarians were once taught a special rounded style of handwriting to ensure uniformity and legibility in catalogs.

The handwriting style, called the “library hand,” was developed by Thomas Alva Edison in 1885. Based on Edison’s own handwriting, the style was especially perfected to allow librarians to “take legibly from the wire, longhand, forty-seven and even fifty-four words a minute."

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