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Past Presidents: The first black librarian in Indiana was Lillian C. Hall. She was admitted to the Indiana State Library School in 1915 becoming their first black student. From 1921-1927 she served at the Dunbar Branch Library in Indianapolis. In 1927 she began working at the Attucks Branch Library also in Indianapolis. Prior to working in Indianapolis, she was a librarian at the Cherry Street Branch Library in Evansville, Indiana from 1915-1921. --- Source: Who's Who in Colored America, 1933-37, Who's Who in Library Service. A biographical directory of professional librarians of the United States and Canada, 3rd ed., edited by D. E. Cole. Websites: Quiet Pioneers: Black Women Librarians in the Segregated South African American Librarianship Pathfinder History of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association Chronology of Events in the History of Black Librarianship African American Librarians in Kentucky Digital Librarian : African Americans Monographs: Handbook of Black Librarianship, 2nd edition. Scarecrow Press. 2000. Library Service to African Americans in Kentucky, from the Reconstruction Era to the 1960s. Reinette F. Jones, Jefferson, N.C.:McFarland, 2002. Integration in Public Library Service in Thirteen Southern States 1954-1962. Bernice Lloyd Bell. 1963. The Black Librarian in America Revisited. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1994. Journal Articles: Kniffel, L. To Be Black and A Librarian: Talking with E. J. Josey. American Libraries v. 31 no. 1 (January 2000) p. 80+ Dawon, Alma. Celebrating African-American Librarians and Librarianship. Library Trends, (June 2000). Honma, Todd. Trippin' Over the Color Line: The Invisibility of Race in Library and Information Studies. InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies v. 1 no. 2 (2005) p. 1-26. Thornton, Joyce K. African American Female Librarians: A Study of Job Satisfaction. Journal of Library Administration v. 33 no. 1/2 (2001) p. 141-64. Barksdale-Hall, Roland C. Navigating the New Leadership Frontier: African American Librarians and Service in the 21st Century. Urban Library Journal v. 11 no. 2 (Spring 2002) p. 47-60. back to top Copyright, 2005-2006 Indiana Black Librarians Network |