Southern Librarians and Libraries Over Time and Distance: A Seminar

Time and date: 9:00-11:45, Thursday, November 11, 2004
Location: 217 B & C

  Join three leading library historians as they explore the Southern library experience and reflect upon how we became who we are. It’s a morning long seminar!

• “The South as 'Other': Southern Female Librarians as Pawns and Brokers”
• “Researching Ruth Brown: Racism and Retribution in a Southern Border State”
• “Small Select Library or Miserable Excuse: Antebellum Southern College Libraries”

Speakers:

• James Vinson Carmichael, Jr., UNC-G
• Louise S. Robbins, University of Madison-Wisconsin
• Patrick Valentine, Wilson County Public Library

Sponsored by NCLA Centennial Conference History Committee