Carnegie Library School of Atlanta

The Carnegie Library School of Atlanta was a training school for librarians in Atlanta, Georgia.[1] Emory University has a collection of the school's files.[2] Originally known as Southern Library School, it opened at the Carnegie Library on September 20, 1905, with Anne Wallace as its director.[3] It affiliated with Emory University in 1925 and remained the only nationally accredited library school until 1930. It closed in 1988.[3]

In 1921, the Director of the Carnegie Library School, Tommie Dora Barker, opened the Auburn Avenue Branch Library, the first branch library for blacks in Atlanta.[4] A Carnegie library, it was located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.[5] The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History succeeded it.

Alumni

  • Ella May Thornton (1885–1971), Georgia State Librarian
  • Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891–1973), first curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

References

  1. ^ "The Carnegie Library School of Atlanta (1905–25)". The Library Quarterly. 37 (2): 149–179. April 1, 1967. doi:10.1086/619528. S2CID 147945806.
  2. ^ School, Carnegie Library of Atlanta Library (November 1, 2011). "Library School of Carnegie Library of Atlanta director's files, 1905–1971". findingaids.library.emory.edu.
  3. ^ a b "100 Years of Library Service". afpls.org. Archived from the original on July 12, 2019. Retrieved August 25, 2020.
  4. ^ Carmichael, Jr., James V. (1990). "Tommie Dora Barker". In Wiegand, Wayne A. (ed.). Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography, Volume 1. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 5–11. ISBN 978-0-87287-586-9.
  5. ^ Wiegand, Wayne A.; Wiegand, Shirley A. (2018). The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8071-6867-7.
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