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 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 second was the poet Stanley Kunitz, and others included Howard Haycraft, Marie Loizeaux, Kathleen Molz, Milo Nelson, Mary Jo Godwin, GraceAnne A. DeCandido and William Robert Eshelman (1968–1978).
In 1992, the American Library Association's Social Responsibilities Round Table issued a resolution calling for a boycott of the Wilson Library Bulletin due to its dismissal of contributor Will Manley.
Manley's column in the June 1992 issue contained a "Librarians and Sex" questionnaire, which "displeased the H.W.