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• 1 media/Billings_book_lilith.jpg 2018-08-31T16:42:37-07:00 Personal Scholarship and Collections 20 Beyond his career at the libraries, Billings was a scholar and collector. image_header 804631 2018-10-16T18:27:38-07:00 Inspired by his admiration for and friendships with writers and artists, Billings published literary works and criticism throughout this career and well after. Forever an aficionado of special collections, his personal collections span from Newcomb pottery to Elvis paraphernalia. 
  
  From his early education through his retirement, two facts are undeniable: Harold Billings loved libraries and he loved Texas.
• 1 media/Billings_bakerstreet.jpg 2018-10-08T22:31:50-07:00 Awarded the Morley-Montgomery Award for “The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes” 7 An avid fan of Holmes' work, Billings continued publishing in scholarly journals in his retirement. plain 2018-10-08T22:36:36-07:00 01/01/2006-01/02/2006 The Baker Street Irregulars' "Morley-Montgomery Award was established in 1958 through the generosity of legendary bookdealer Lew D. Feldman, to be given each year to the author of the best article in The Baker Street Journal."
  
  In 2006, Billings' essay, "The Materia Medica of Sherlock Holmes", was awarded this honor.