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Lillian M. Bradshaw-Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 25, 2025 07:54 AM
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Lillian M. Bradshaw-Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 25, 2025 07:54 AM
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Lillian M. Bradshaw (1915-2010) was director of the Dallas Public Library from 1962 to 1984. Bradshaw established the Dallas Central Library. She was responsible for the greatest library expansion in the history of Dallas. She oversaw the development of 18 of the city's 25 branches, all specifically ...

William Warner Bishop and the Vatican Library

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 21, 2025 01:18 PM
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William Warner Bishop (1871 – 1955) was ALA President in 1918. He was named among "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th Century". ( American Libraries, 11(30), 38–47.) In 1926, the Vatican recruited William Warner Bishop to modernize the Vatican Library, which was founded in 1475 and ...

IMLS-Foundational-21st Century Learner Conference

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 10, 2025 05:04 PM
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"IMLS is a catalyst for leadership. We take an active part in championing the role libraries and museums play in our society. As a federal agency we have a responsibility to place a national spotlight on the outstanding work that you do and on the enormous contributions you make. Attached is the 2001 ...

IMLS-Foundational-21st Century Learner Conference

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 10, 2025 05:03 PM
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Eileen Cooke- Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 07, 2025 09:29 PM
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Eileen Cooke (1928-2000) worked in the American Library Association, Washington Office starting in 1964 and became director in 1972. On each Freedom of Information Day, the American Library Association presents the Eileen Cooke State & Local Madison Award which honors state or local individuals, groups, ...

Redmond Kathleen Molz -Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Apr 05, 2025 12:57 PM
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Redmond Kathleen Molz (1928-2019) was Melvil Dewey professor of library service at Columbia University. The Dewey professorship, the first endowed chair of librarianship in an American university, was established by Columbia in 1938 with an endowment fund from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Molz ...

Engelhard Lectures at the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 29, 2025 09:34 PM
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Thinking about the last 50 years of books and libraries as we plan for ALA's 150th anniversary--the Library of Congress Center for the Book, was established by Congress by public law 95-129 to promote books, reading, literacy and libraries, as well as the scholarly study of books. The Engelhard Lectures ...

Laura Bush and IMLS

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 27, 2025 09:42 AM
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Has Laura Bush been reached out to for support? During Laura Bush's time as First Lady the Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program was established (2002). Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program . Laura Bush founded the National Book Festival with the Library of Congress in 2001 and was honored ...

Wikipedia for education policy research (needs library research)

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 25, 2025 06:27 AM
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Funding cuts, contract cancellations and firings at the U.S. Department of Education were an unspoken agenda item at the 50th annual convening of the Association for Education Finance and Policy earlier this month in Washington. Hundreds of education researchers, activists, graduate students and district ...

IMLS at Wikipedia

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 18, 2025 08:03 AM
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The Wikipedia page for IMLS is getting some action from different editors --please add new information and if you use it, keep checking as it is undergoing changes from multiple editors. There is a section for Executive order. Institute of Museum and Library Services - Wikipedia ------------------------------ ...

Some Roots of IMLS

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 18, 2025 06:15 AM
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Some Roots of IMLS

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 18, 2025 06:15 AM
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Joeckel, Carleton B. (1936) "The New Federal Library Agency." Bulletin of the American Library Association 30, No. 7 (July): 529. JOECKEL, CARLETON B. "The Federal Government and Post-Defense Planning for Libraries." ALA Bulletin 35, no. 12 (1941): 651–52. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25690886. American ...

National Medal for Museum and Library Service

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 15, 2025 12:23 PM
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The National Medal is the nation's highest honor given to museums and libraries that demonstrate excellence in service to their communities. Since 1994, the award has honored 212 institutions that exemplified extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service. Over the past 30 years, the award ...

Suggest Going to IMLS site to save materials

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 15, 2025 09:11 AM
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I am seeing some 21st Century Laura Bush 21st Century Library Program information deleted from the IMLS site. Consider going to the IMLS site to save reports and information. : https://www.imls.gov/ ------------------------------ Kathleen de la Peña McCook Distinguished University Professor School ...

Maynard J. Brichford- Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 08, 2025 06:28 PM
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Maynard J. Brichford (1926-2019), Fellow and President of the Society of American Archivists, established the archives program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was responsible for bringing the American Library Association Archives to the University of Illinois-Champaign. Upon ...

Dr. Margaret E. Chisholm -Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Mar 01, 2025 09:17 PM
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Dr. Margaret E. Chisholm (1921-1999) was a visionary boundary spanning librarian who served as ALA President from 1988-1989. She established the ALA Presidential Committee on Information Literacy with three purposes: (1) to define information literacy within the higher literacies and its importance ...

Ruth Mortimer (1931- 1994) - Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Feb 16, 2025 08:52 PM
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Ruth Mortimer (1931- 1994) was an American rare books curator and librarian at Harvard University and Smith College. Ruth Mortimer began her career with rare books while an undergraduate at Smith College, working as an assistant in the Rare Book Room until her graduation summa cum laude in 1953. She ...

Ruth Mortimer (1931- 1994) - Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Feb 16, 2025 08:51 PM
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Wendell Leonard Wray.  (1926-2003) - Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026

Posted By Kathleen McCook Feb 16, 2025 03:51 PM
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- Librarians We Have Lost-Sesquicentennial Memories -1976-2026 Wendell Leonard Wray was the first Black man to graduate from the Carnegie Institute of Technology School (Pittsburgh) and was the first African American man hired by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Wendell Wray was born in Pittsburgh, ...