Charlotte Templeton

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Charlotte Templeton
OccupationLibrarian, educator

Charlotte Templeton was a librarian and lecturer in the United States.[1] She was a lecturer at the Carnegie Library School of Atlanta. She served as a secretary of the Georgia Library Commission. After resigning that position she worked as a librarian at the public library in Greenville, South Carolina.[2]

She wrote the article Who's Who in the A. L. A. (American Library Association) in 1930.[3] She was one of the librarians who conceived the Southeastern Library Association on a trip to an A. L. A. conference.[4][5]

In 1926, 1927 , and 1928, she served as president of the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA).[6] She published an article in the Christian Index on children's books and libraries.[2]

She was a librarian at Atlanta University.[7] She was involved with organizing the first Negro Library Conference. It was held in Kentucky.[8]

One of her letters to her mom survives.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ https://nlc.nebraska.gov/history/centennial/1900s/19001909/templeton.aspx
  2. ^ a b "Libraries". Library bureau. February 13, 1923 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Templeton, Charlotte (1930). "Who's Who in the A. L. A." Bulletin of the American Library Association. 24 (10): 598–600. JSTOR 25687297 – via JSTOR.
  4. ^ Carmichael, James V. (2005). "Southern Librarianship and the Culture of Resentment". Libraries & Culture. 40 (3): 324–352. ISSN 0894-8631. JSTOR 25541934.
  5. ^ Carmichael, Jr., James V. (1990). "Tommie Dora Barker". In Wiegand, Wayne A. (ed.). Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography, Volume 1. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 5–11. ISBN 9780872875869.
  6. ^ "History of the Association". www.scla.org.
  7. ^ https://archives.library.illinois.edu/erec/ALA%2520Archives/0003003a/directory%2520of%2520negro%2520graduates%25201900-36.pdf
  8. ^ "Negro Library Conference · Notable Kentucky African Americans Database". nkaa.uky.edu.
  9. ^ Nix, Larry T. (December 12, 2012). "Library History Buff Blog: A 1902 Letter and the Library Career of Charlotte Templeton (1877-1970)".
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