Charlotte Templeton

Charlotte Templeton
Occupation(s)	Librarian, 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. "Nebraska Library Commission History - Charlotte Templeton".
2. "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.
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. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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)".