Women in Southern Library Education, 1905-1945.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- James V. Carmichael, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Southern library education was an almost exclusively female enterprise until
about 1930, when the first male students were accepted into the region's only
ALA-accredited library school. In the formative (ca. 1905-30) and developmental
(ca. 1930-45) years of southern library education. regional attitudes
toward gender, race, and class, and the South's impoverished economic climate.
shaped the way in which library education was adapted to meet regional needs.
The "old girl network" of library school alumnae. community leaders. and even
untrained librarians represented a formidable coalition for library advocacy that
even the region's much publicized illiteracy. bigotry, and general backwardness
could not deter.
Women in Southern Library Education, 1905-1945.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- The Library Quarterly 62 (April 1992): 169-216.
- Language: English
- Date: 1992
- Keywords
- Southern Librarianship, Higher Education, Women