Carnegie Library School of Atlanta

The Carnegie Library School of Atlanta (1905 - 1988) was a training school for librarians in Atlanta, Georgia. ^[1] Emory University has a collection of the school's files. ^[2] Originally known as Southern Library School, it opened September 20, 1905, with Anne Wallace as its director. ^[3] It affiliated with Emory University in 1925 and remained the only nationally accredited library school until 1930. It closed in 1988. ^[3]

In 1921, the Director of the Carnegie Library School, Tommie Dora Barker, opened the Auburn Avenue Branch Library, the first branch library for blacks in Atlanta. ^[4] A Carnegie Library, it was located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood. ^[5] The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History succeeded it.

Alumni

• Ella May Thornton (1885-1971), Georgia State Librarian
• Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891-1973), first curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

References

1. "The Carnegie Library School of Atlanta (1905-25)". The Library Quarterly. 37 (2): 149–179. April 1, 1967. doi:10.1086/619528. S2CID   147945806.
2. School, Carnegie Library of Atlanta Library (November 1, 2011). "Library School of Carnegie Library of Atlanta director's files, 1905-1971". findingaids.library.emory.edu.
3. "100 Years of Library Service". afpls.org. Archived from the original on 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2020-08-25.
4. 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.
5. Wiegand, Wayne A.; Wiegand, Shirley A. (2018). The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. p. 27. ISBN   9780807168677.