Charles Brown
New Orleans. Charlotte Mecklenberg. And more. Charles Brown "enriched the public library community through his tireless service as a library director" in multiple communities through a career that spanned five states over half a century. Read the full ALA Memorial Resolution below to help honor his "life of outstanding service and extraordinary contributions to public librarianship and to the communities he served."
--ALA Memorial Resolution, https://www.ala.org/sites/default/files/aboutala/content/RESOLUTION%20HONORING%20THE%20MEMORY%20OF%20CHARLES%20BROWN.pdf
Submitted by Susan Hidreth who noted that "Charles Brown was a thoughtful and admired library administrator. He mentored me in the late 1980's when I was the director of a small independent library in Benicia, CA, and he was the Solano County Librarian."
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In honor of the Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary of ALA) in 2026, the Library History Round Table is hosting Librarians We Have Lost, Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026. This collage of tributes seeks to honor librarians who died between 1976-2026. The tributes are published to ALA Connect and a digital memorial on LHRT News & Notes.
We invite tributes from anyone about any library worker who passed away between 1976-2026. To submit a tribute, please use the form at https://lhrt.news/librarians-we-have-lost-sesquicentennial-memories-1976-2026-2/
For questions or comments, please reach out to Dr. Kathleen McCook (kmccook@usf.edu) or Brett Spencer (dbs21@psu.edu).
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Brett Spencer
Reference Librarian
Thun Library, Penn State Berks
He/Him/His
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