Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library Commission

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Miss Bullock, Miss Templeton and the Nebraska Library

CommissionThe Southern Connection

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What is the “South”?

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Library Schools, 1905

Dewey schoolNon-Dewey

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Melvil Dewey &

Mrs. Salome Cutler Fairchild

1894

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Form over Function

Busy Work in Librarianship

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Secretary, NLC, 1901-1906

Edna Dean Bullock

B.L.S., Albany, 1894

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Nebraska Library Commission Room in Basement of State Capitol

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Fairchild to Bullock

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Bullock to Fairchild

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Fairchild to Bullock

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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

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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

. . .

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Charlotte Templeton

Secretary, NLC, 1906-1919Pratt Institute, 1905

Geneva Girls School Traveling Library

The Atlanta GirlsALA, Asheville, 1907 Julia

Rankin

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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.

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Home of Charlotte Templeton and Helen Mathewson, 1918-

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122 s. 14TH Street, Lincoln

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Charlotte TempletonGeorgia Library Commission Secretary, 1920-23 Librarian, Greenville (SC) Public Library, 1923-31

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North Carolina Library Commission Traveling

Libraries,

c. 1912

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Horse Pack

Librarians,

Kentucky, 1934

Bayou mobiles, 1934

Library Extension Under a Variety of Guises

Bookmobile, Durham, NC

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Thomas FountainBlue

Florence Rising Curtis

Negro Library Institute, Atlanta, Ga. 1930

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Co-Founder, Southeastern Library Association (SELA), 1920 President, SELA, 1928-30

Charlotte Templeton

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Southeastern Library AssociationGrove Park Inn Asheville, NC, 1924

Louie R.Wilson

TommieDora

Barker

CharlotteTempleton

MaryUtopia Rothrock

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Wilson

President, ALA, 1936

Rothrock

President, ALA, 1946

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Barker

ALA Regional

Field Agent,

1930-36

Templeton

ALA Second Vice-President,

1930

Librarian, Atlanta

University,

1931-41

(d.1977)

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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

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Howard W. Odum

Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

26Southern Regions of The United States, 1936

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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

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Store-front Libraries, c. 1940

A Black Library Branch, Tampa,

1936

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Wilson

The Geography of Reading, 1938

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Barker

Libraries in the South, 1936

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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

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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