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A librarian is a person who works professionally in a library, and may hold a degree in librarianship ... library schools reached their heyday in the 1950s to 1960s ...
American Libraries before 1876 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000) Mickelson, Peter. "American Society and the Public Library in the Thought of Andrew Carnegie." Journal of Library History (1975) 10#2 pp 117–138. Rose, Ernestine. The public library in American life (Columbia University Press, 1954) Shera, Jesse Hauk.
Mary Helen Mahar (1913–1998) was an American librarian known for her work in school libraries.She was active in state and national library and education associations. She served as president of the New York Library Association in 1950.
Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan, and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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Mary Helen Mahar – president of the New York Library Association in 1950; Margaret Mann – library educator, particularly cataloging; founding faculty member at University of Michigan library science program (1926) Allie Beth Martin; Harry S. Martin – former Head Librarian, Harvard Law Library; Kathleen de la Peña McCook – library ...
On July 25, 1950, she was dismissed after 30 years of service as the Bartlesville, Oklahoma public librarian. [1] She was relieved of her duties in 1950 on the baseless accusation that she was a communist when, in fact, she was fired because of her desegregation activities.
Clapp was born in Johannesburg, South Africa (then "Transvaal") to an English mother, Mary Sybil Helms Clapp, and an American father, George Herbert Clapp.Mary Helms, daughter of Danish mining engineer Ludvig Verner Helms, was born in Sarawak in Borneo and educated in Europe and had moved to the Transvaal to work in a law office when she met George Clapp, an American entrepreneur from Dover ...