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. ^ a b "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 – via JSTOR.
  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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  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)".