Post on 14-Jan-2016
description
1
Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library
CommissionThe Southern Connection
2
What is the “South”?
3
Library Schools, 1905
Dewey schoolNon-Dewey
4
Melvil Dewey &
Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild
1894
5
Form over Function
Busy Work in Librarianship
6
Secretary, NLC, 1901-1906
Edna Dean Bullock
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
Frank Haller
NLC Board, 1901-16, Pres., 1906-1916
Complaints (re:
Bullock)
Nepotism
Book Selection
Temperance Bias
His Own Faults
Chauvinism
Prescriptive Selection
DisregardsExpertise
Impatience
12
d. 1957
Rockefeller
Institute, 1906-
Rochester
Theological
Seminary, 1907
Medina High
School
H.W.Wilson Co., 1911
Western Theologi
cal Seminary, 1913-1914
NC Legislati
ve Referenc
e Lib., 1916
Nebraska Legislati
ve Referenc
e Bureau,1911-39
After The Nebraska Library Commission
. . .
13
Charlotte Templeton
Secretary, NLC, 1906-1919Pratt Institute, 1905
Geneva Girls School Traveling Library
The Atlanta GirlsALA, Asheville, 1907 Julia
Rankin
14
Founder —
Georgia -Library Commission, 1897
Georgia Library Association, 1897
Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 1899
Southern Library School, 1905
Librarian, Carnegie Library of Atlanta, 1899-1908
Director, Drexel Library School, 1921-1936
2nd Vice-President, American Library Association, 1908
Anne Wallace, 1899 Atlanta A.L.A.
15
Home of Charlotte Templeton and Helen Mathewson, 1918-
19
122 s. 14TH Street, Lincoln
16
Charlotte TempletonGeorgia Library Commission Secretary, 1920-23 Librarian, Greenville (SC) Public Library, 1923-31
17
North Carolina Library Commission Traveling
Libraries,
c. 1912
18
Horse Pack
Librarians,
Kentucky, 1934
Bayou mobiles, 1934
Library Extension Under a Variety of Guises
Bookmobile, Durham, NC
19
Thomas FountainBlue
Florence Rising Curtis
Negro Library Institute, Atlanta, Ga. 1930
20
Co-Founder, Southeastern Library Association (SELA), 1920 President, SELA, 1928-30
Charlotte Templeton
21
Southeastern Library AssociationGrove Park Inn Asheville, NC, 1924
Louie R.Wilson
TommieDora
Barker
CharlotteTempleton
MaryUtopia Rothrock
22
Wilson
President, ALA, 1936
Rothrock
President, ALA, 1946
23
Barker
ALA Regional
Field Agent,
1930-36
Templeton
ALA Second Vice-President,
1930
Librarian, Atlanta
University,
1931-41
(d.1977)
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
26Southern Regions of The United States, 1936
27
Library Extension Developments, 1929-• 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
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