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List Of Female Librarians
This is a list of female librarians. See also * List of librarians * List of female archivists * Lists of women {{Libraries and library science Librarians Female Female ( symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ... * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Adler
Ada Sara Adler (1878–1946) was a Danish classical scholar and librarian. She is best known for her critical edition of the Byzantine encyclopedia ''Suda'' (5 vols., 1928–38), which still provides the standard text. Biography Adler was born on 18 February 1878, the daughter of Bertel David Adler and Elise Johanne, née Fraenckel. Her family was of high social standing and well-connected. Her grandfather, David Baruch Adler, was a wealthy banker and politician. Her aunt, Ellen Adler Bohr, was the mother of Niels Bohr and Harald Bohr. Through the Bohrs, she was also related to Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin. Adler's early education was at Miss Steenberg's School and then N. Zahle's School, where she studied Ancient Greek under Anders Bjørn Drachmann beginning in 1893. She then went to the University of Copenhagen, where she continued to study Greek and comparative religion with Drachmann and also Professor Vilhelm Thomsen. In 1906, she completed her master's thesis on ancie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Dawson
Alma Dawson is an American scholar of librarianship. She retired as Russell B. Long Professor at the School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University in 2014 and was awarded Emeritus status in 2015. In 2019 Dr. Dawson was honored with the Essae Martha Culver Distinguished Service Award from the Louisiana Library Association which honors a librarian whose professional service and achievements, whose leadership in Louisiana association work, and whose lifetime accomplishments in a field of librarianship within the state merit recognition of particular value to Louisiana librarianship. Dawson earned the B.S. degree from Grambling State University in secondary education and taught in the Natchitoches Parish School System. She earned the master's degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She then worked as a librarian at Prairie View A&M University. In 1982 she joined the Louisiana State University Libraries faculty as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Coleman
Anita Coleman is an Indian American academic librarian, faculty and researcher in digital libraries. Anita Coleman is also the founder of an interdisciplinary open access repository Repository may refer to: Archives and online databases * Content repository, a database with an associated set of data management tools, allowing application-independent access to the content * Disciplinary repository (or subject repository), an ..., dLIST - Digital Library of Information Science and Technology. Awards 2007 Mover and Shaker (Library Journal) 2007 Spring Outstanding Teacher (University of Arizona, School of Information Resources and Library Science) 1996-2007 Professional Service - Learning Resources Association of the California Community Colleges. 2006 Professional Service (Library of Congress and American Library Association Association for Library Cataloging and Technical Services) 1998 Research - California Academic & Research Libraries Publications *1996. *1996. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángela García Rives
Ángela Rafaela Ana García Rives (1891–1968 or later) was a Spanish librarian and archivist. A philosophy and letters graduate from Madrid's Central University, in 1913 she was the first woman to join the Spanish Corps of Archivists, Librarians, and Archeologists. The following year she was engaged by the Spanish National Library, heading the cataloguing department from 1946 until her retirement in 1961. In 1962, she was honoured with the Civil Order of Alfonso X, the Wise. Early life and education Born in Madrid on 2 June 1891, Ángela Rafaela Ana García Rives (frequently known as Angelita) was the daughter of the lawyer and state librarian Moisés García y Muñoz and his wife Rafaela. The eldest of three children, her brothers were Luis (1896), who also became an archivist, and Moisés (1894), a lawyer. After completing her schooling at the Instituto Cardenal Cisneros, she trained as a teacher at the Madrid Normal School and at the College for the Deaf and Blind. She then s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anabel Torres
Anabel Torres Restrepo (born 28 December 1948) is a Colombian poet and translator. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Antioquia in Medellín and obtained a masters at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague. She was assistant director at the National Library of Colombia The National Library of Colombia ( es, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia) is a national library located in Bogota, Colombia. The library is a dependency of the Colombian Ministry of Culture. Founding and history The National Library of Colombi ... (Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia). Works * ''Casi poesía'' (1975) * ''La mujer del esquimal'' (1981) * ''Las bocas del amor'' (1982) * ''Poemas'' (1987) * ''Medias nonas'' (1992) * ''Poemas de guerra'' (Barcelona, 2000) * ''En un abrir y cerrar de hojas'' (Zaragoza, España, 2001) * ''Agua herida'' (2004) * ''El origen y destino de las especies de la fauna masculina paisa'' (2009) Awards * Poetry National Awards, University of Nariño, 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Santos Aramburo
Ana Santos Aramburo (born 1957) is a Spanish librarian who has been the director of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, National Library of Spain since February 2013. Biography Santos has a degree in geography and history from the University of Zaragoza (designated Distinguished Student of her Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, on 26 April 2012) and Diploma in Library Science and Documentation from the Documentary Studies Center of the Ministry of Culture. Her thesis was “Artistic Documentation in the Archive of Notarial Protocols of Zaragoza in the 17th century”. In 1982, she began working in the Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, where she developed a good part of her professional career over 25 years. Between 1987 and 1991, she worked at the library of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, where she served as assistant director. Between 1993 and 2001, she held the deputy director of the Library of the ''Universidad Complutens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Rosa Núñez
Ana Rosa Núñez (July 11, 1926 – August 2, 1999) was a Cuban-American poet and librarian. She authored over two dozen books of poetry, prose, and translations. Biography Núñez was born in Havana, Cuba, to Dr. Jorge Manuel Núñez y Bengochea, a professor and architect, and Carmen Gónzalez y Gónzalez de Burgos. In 1949, she earned a scholarship from the Institute of International Education to attend the College of Wooster in the United States. In 1955, she graduated from the University of Havana with a library degree. In Cuba, she was head librarian of the National Audit Office (Tribunal de Cuentas de la Republica de Cuba, 1950-1961) and a founding member and vice president (1957-1959) of the Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios Universitarios."Ana Rosa Nunez." ''Contemporary Authors Online''. Detroit: Gale, 2011. ''Biography In Context''. Web. 8 Sept. 2013. Núñez came to the United States on September 10, 1965. She and another Cuban exile librarian, Rosa M. Abell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Amelia Gayle Gorgas (June 1, 1826 – January 3, 1913) was librarian and postmaster of the University of Alabama for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907. She expanded the library from 6,000 to 20,000 volumes. The primary library at the university is named after her. A native of Greensboro, Alabama, Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle, the wife of Pennsylvania-born Confederate general Josiah Gorgas and the mother of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854 – July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914–1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the .... She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1977. References External links Alabama's Women Hall of FameUniversity of Alabama Gorgas LibraryJosiah and Amelia Gorgas Family papers, University Libraries Division of Special Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalia Kahana-Carmon
Amalia Kahana-Carmon () was an Israeli author and literary critic. She was awarded the Israel Prize for literature in 2000. Biography Amalia Kahana-Carmon was born in Kibbutz Ein Harod on October 18, 1926. She moved to Tel Aviv as a child and studied at Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium, but her studies were interrupted by the 1948 Palestine war where she served in the Negev Brigade of Palmach as a signals operator and wrote the famous telegram for the capture of Eilat. Upon her return from military service, Kahana-Carmon attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied library science and philology. Soon after graduating, she moved to Switzerland (1951 to 1955) and then to England (1955 to 1957) before moving back to Tel Aviv to work as a librarian and writer. Family Kahana-Carmon’s father, Chaim Kahana (1890-1910), immigrated to Palestine in 1910. In Palestine, he received a rabbinical education and both invented and held consultations for technical mechanisms. Her mother, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Library Association
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with 49,727 members as of 2021. History During the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, 103 librarians, 90 men and 13 women, responded to a call for a "Convention of Librarians" to be held October 4–6 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At the end of the meeting, according to Ed Holley in his essay "ALA at 100", "the register was passed around for all to sign who wished to become charter members," making October 6, 1876, the date of the ALA’s founding. Among the 103 librarians in attendance were Justin Winsor (Boston Public, Harvard), William Frederick Poole (Chicago Public, Newberry), Charles Ammi Cutter (Boston Athenaeum), Melvil Dewey, and Richard Rogers Bowker. Attendees came from as far west as Chicago and from England. The ALA wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
