Leadership for Social Change: Clara Whitehill Hunt and the Evolution of Children’s Librarianship
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| Title: | Leadership for Social Change: Clara Whitehill Hunt and the Evolution of Children’s Librarianship |
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| Authors: | Stauffer, Suzanne Marie |
| Source: | Faculty Publications |
| Publisher Information: | LSU Scholarly Repository |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | LSU Digital Commons (Louisiana State University) |
| Subject Terms: | Children's librarians, Clara Whitehill Hunt, Children's librarianship, Brooklyn Public Library, Women librarians, Cultural History, Library and Information Science, Public History, United States History, Women's History |
| Description: | The first generation of children’s librarians, who created the profession in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, were followed by a second generation who enlarged, expanded, and refined the scope of the collection. One of these women was Clara Whitehill Hunt, Superintendent of Work with Children for the Brooklyn Public Library from 1903 to 1940. In addition to developing training courses for children’s librarians, she wrote Library Work with Children for the A.L.A. Manuals of Library Economy series, The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls, a catalog of recommended children’s books and The First Three Hundred Books for the Children’s Library. For parents, she wrote What Shall We Read to the Children. She was also the author of four books for children, and was instrumental in establishing Children’s Book Week and the Newbery Award. This paper will evaluate her career in light of the Astin and Leland’s theory of women’s leadership as leadership for social change |
| Document Type: | text |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | unknown |
| Relation: | https://repository.lsu.edu/slis_pubs/37; https://repository.lsu.edu/context/slis_pubs/article/1047/viewcontent/StaufferLeadership.pdf |
| DOI: | 10.1353/lib.2024.a944674 |
| Availability: | https://repository.lsu.edu/slis_pubs/37 https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2024.a944674 https://repository.lsu.edu/context/slis_pubs/article/1047/viewcontent/StaufferLeadership.pdf |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.DFC0246E |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | The first generation of children’s librarians, who created the profession in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, were followed by a second generation who enlarged, expanded, and refined the scope of the collection. One of these women was Clara Whitehill Hunt, Superintendent of Work with Children for the Brooklyn Public Library from 1903 to 1940. In addition to developing training courses for children’s librarians, she wrote Library Work with Children for the A.L.A. Manuals of Library Economy series, The Bookshelf for Boys and Girls, a catalog of recommended children’s books and The First Three Hundred Books for the Children’s Library. For parents, she wrote What Shall We Read to the Children. She was also the author of four books for children, and was instrumental in establishing Children’s Book Week and the Newbery Award. This paper will evaluate her career in light of the Astin and Leland’s theory of women’s leadership as leadership for social change |
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| DOI: | 10.1353/lib.2024.a944674 |