Women in library science
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Anne Carroll Moore Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-010
Abstract
Anne Carroll Moore was an important pioneer of children’s librarianship. A graduate of Pratt Institute, she developed the children’s room at the Pratt Institute Library and later set up services for the children’s rooms of the main library and branches of the New York Public Library. Moore introduced numerous innovations into library services for children, including exhibits, special events, and storytelling, and she emphasized the love of reading for its own sake. She also regularly...
Dates:
1896 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1955
Found in:
Pratt Institute Archives
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Anne Carroll Moore Papers
Julia Pettee Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-009
Abstract
Julia Pettee was a student of the Pratt Institute Library School from 1894-1895. From 1909 to 1939, she was the Chief Cataloger in the Union Theological Seminary Library where she devised a unique classification system for theological works. Her papers date primarily from 1895 to 1905 and include incoming and outgoing correspondence, writings by and about Pettee, class notes, and ephemera related to her time as a library student.
Dates:
1894 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1905
Found in:
Pratt Institute Archives
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Julia Pettee Papers
Mary Wright Plummer Papers
Collection
Identifier: MC-006
Abstract
Mary Wright Plummer (1856-1916) stands as an important figure in early American librarianship, both because of the way she helped shape the profession and because she held positions of leadership and authority at a time when it was unusual for women to do so. A graduate of Columbia’s library school, she headed Pratt Institute’s library and became director of the library school. She was also a writer and a poet, and was active in a number of professional organizations such as the American...
Dates:
undated, 1889-2006; Majority of material found within 1890 - 1911
Found in:
Pratt Institute Archives
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Mary Wright Plummer Papers