librarian, bibliographer, author, b. Jamestown, N.Y. She graduated from Wellesley College, Mass. (B.S., 1891). She was librarian at Jamestown, N.Y. (1893-1906), and also organized and directed the Chautauqua School for Librarians (1901-1905). In 1906 she came to Wisconsin under appointment from the Wisconsin Free Library Commission to organize and administer the Wisconsin Library School at Madison. She was principal of the Library School (1906-1938) and in this capacity gradually built up a comprehensive program for supplying the state with trained librarians. During her tenure the school attained national recognition, and more than one thousand students were graduated. She was the author of Anniversaries and Holidays (1928), One Hundred Years of Wisconsin Authorship, 1837-1937 (1937), and contributed numerous articles to professional journals and to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. She was president of the N.Y. Library Association (1902), and was an active leader of the Wisconsin and American Library Associations. After retiring from the Wisconsin Library School in 1938, she returned to her home in Jamestown, N.Y. Who Was Who in Amer. (1950); Wis. Lib. Bull., 34 (1938); Amer. Woman, 2 (1937); N.Y. Times, June 18, 1949; Madison Wis. State Journal, June 18, 1949.Learn More
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