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Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library Commission

Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library Commission. The Southern Connection. What is the “South”?. Library Schools, 1905. Dewey school. Non-Dewey. Melvil Dewey & Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild 1894. Form over Function. Busy Work in Librarianship. Edna Dean Bullock.

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Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library Commission

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  1. Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library Commission The Southern Connection

  2. What is the “South”?

  3. Library Schools, 1905 Deweyschool Non-Dewey

  4. Melvil Dewey & Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild 1894

  5. Form over Function Busy Work in Librarianship

  6. EdnaDean Bullock Secretary, NLC, 1901-1906 B.L.S., Albany, 1894

  7. Nebraska Library Commission Room in Basement of State Capitol

  8. Fairchild to Bullock

  9. Bullock to Fairchild

  10. Fairchild to Bullock

  11. His Own Faults Chauvinism Prescriptive Selection Disregards Expertise Impatience Complaints (re: Bullock) Nepotism Book Selection Temperance Bias Frank Haller NLC Board, 1901-16, Pres., 1906-1916

  12. Western Theological Seminary, 1913-1914 NC Legislative Reference Lib., 1916 Nebraska Legislative Reference Bureau,1911-39 Rockefeller Institute, 1906- Rochester Theological Seminary, 1907 Medina High School H.W.Wilson Co., 1911 After The Nebraska Library Commission . . . d. 1957

  13. Traveling Library Geneva Girls School Charlotte Templeton Secretary, NLC, 1906-1919 The Atlanta Girls ALA, Asheville, 1907 Julia Rankin Pratt Institute, 1905

  14. Librarian, Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 1899-1908 Director, Drexel Library School, 1921-1936 2nd Vice-President, American Library Association, 1908 Founder — Georgia -Library Commission, 1897 Georgia Library Association, 1897 Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 1899 Southern Library School, 1905 Anne Wallace, 1899 Atlanta A.L.A.

  15. 122 s. 14TH Street, Lincoln Home of Charlotte Templeton and Helen Mathewson, 1918-19

  16. Charlotte Templeton Georgia Library Commission Secretary, 1920-23 Librarian, Greenville (SC) Public Library, 1923-31

  17. North Carolina Library Commission Traveling Libraries, c. 1912

  18. Library Extension Under a Variety of Guises Horse Pack Librarians, Kentucky, 1934 Bayou mobiles, 1934 Bookmobile, Durham, NC

  19. Negro Library Institute, Atlanta, Ga. 1930 Florence Rising Curtis Thomas Fountain Blue

  20. Charlotte Templeton Co-Founder, Southeastern Library Association (SELA), 1920 President, SELA, 1928-30

  21. Southeastern Library Association Grove Park Inn Asheville, NC, 1924 Louie R. Wilson Tommie Dora Barker Mary Utopia Rothrock Charlotte Templeton

  22. Rothrock Wilson President, ALA, 1936 President, ALA, 1946

  23. Templeton Librarian, Atlanta University, 1931-41 (d.1977) Barker ALA Regional Field Agent, 1930-36 ALA Second Vice-President, 1930

  24. State of Southern Libraries, 1926 • 73 per cent of population without library service of any kind • 89 per cent of black population without library service of any kind • Illiteracy rate highest • Index of Library Development lowest in nation

  25. Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

  26. Southern Regions of The United States, 1936

  27. Philanthropic Coordination Rural Library Institute, Wisconsin, 1929 SELA, 1929 Regional Field Agent Rosenwald County Demonstrations Federal Projects WPA, NYA, &c. National Library Plan, 1935 Federal Legislation for Libraries, 1950s-1960s Internet Legislation, 1990s Library Extension Developments, 1929-

  28. Store-front Libraries, c. 1940 A Black Library Branch, Tampa, 1936

  29. Wilson The Geography of Reading, 1938

  30. Barker Libraries in the South, 1936

  31. Templeton’s Contribution • Equalization of library opportunity • Modeling practical and positive approaches to library problems • Contribution to the elimination of governmental barriers to effective library service • Above all, library leadership

  32. FIN Photo credits: • Nebraska Library Commission • Atlanta-Fulton Public Library • The Library in America • Greenville, SC Public Library • Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University • Louis R. Wilson Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

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