Kenneth Toombs

Kenneth Eldridge Toombs (25 August 1928 – 4 March 2008), AKA Kenneth Toombs and Kenneth E. Toombs, was 20th-century American best known as director of the libraries of the University of South Carolina (1967-1988).[1][2][3][4][5]

Career

Toombs helped establish the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library and Law Library and co-founded the Southeastern Library Network.[1][2] He helped establish the South Caroliniana Library by approving Thomas L. Johnson as its first field archivist[6] and who interviewed Grace Lumpkin for the archive.[7] He also helped in establishing rights for southern chapters of the American Library Association.[8]

Awards

  • Rothrock Award, Southeastern Library Association (contribution to Solinet System)

Legacy

  • Kenneth E. Toombs Fellowship Fund in Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina[2][9]

Works

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Obituaries". American Libraries. American Library Association: 67. May 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Kenneth Eldridge Toombs". The State. 5 March 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  3. ^ Potter, William Gary (26 October 2008). "Introduction". Journal of Library Administration: 1–3. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Personnel Development in Libraries". The Library Quarterly: 102. January 1979. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  5. ^ "Libraries Combat Rising Book Thefts". New York Times. 9 January 1971. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  6. ^ Bryan, John M. (2020). Creating the South Caroliniana Library. University of South Carolina Press. p. 113. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  7. ^ Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd (2019). Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America. W.W. Norton. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  8. ^ Harris, Steven R. (2003). "Civil Rights and the Louisiana Library Association: Stumbling toward Integration". Libraries & Culture: 341. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  9. ^ "College of Information and Communications - Library and Information Science". University of South Carolina. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  10. ^ Lumpkin, Grace; Toombs, Kenneth (25 September 1971). "Grace Lumpkin interview". South Caroliniana Library. Retrieved 8 April 2022.