Charlotte Templeton was a librarian and lecturer in the United States. 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

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. She wrote the article Who's Who in the A. L. A. (

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) in 1930. She was one of the librarians who conceived the

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on a trip to an A. L. A. conference. In 1926, 1927 , and 1928, she served as president of the South Carolina Library Association (SCLA). She published an article in the ''Christian Index'' on children's books and libraries. She was a librarian at

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. She was involved with organizing the first Negro Library Conference. It was held in Kentucky. One of her letters to her mom survives.

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