National Inventors’ Month

August is National Inventors’ Month, which promotes the positive image of inventors and their contributions. There is a short history of the month available here. An official month celebrating a specific topic is classed with the topic. Thus, National Inventors' Month is classed at 608 Inventions and patents.

While we're on the subject of inventors, we'd like to take a minute to note the death yesterday of a giant in 20th-century librarianship and the founder of OCLC, Frederick G. Kilgour.  Fred Kilgour devised the concept of shared cataloging and the database that is known today as WorldCat.