| 词条 | Flora Belle Ludington |
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| name = Flora Belle Ludington | image = Flora Belle Ludington.jpg | office = President of the American Library Association | term_start = 1953 | term_end = 1954 | predecessor = Robert Bingham Downs | successor = L. Quincy Mumford | nationality = American | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|11|12}} | birth_place = Huron County, Michigan, USA | death_date = March, 1967 | death_place = Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA | occupation = {{hlist|Librarian|author}} | education = Mills College }}Flora Belle Ludington (November 12, 1898 – March 1967)[1][2] was an American librarian and author. Ludington served as the head librarian for Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, from 1938 until 1964.[3] LifeBorn in Huron County, Michigan, Ludington moved to Wenatchee, Washington, as a young girl. At fourteen, she began her library career as a volunteer in the Carnegie public library in Wanatchee. She worked as an assistant in the University of Washington library, where she received a bachelor's degree in librarianship in 1920. She left Washington to be a reference librarian at Mills College, where she went on to study and receive a master's degree in history fin 1925. That same year, she received a second bachelor's degree from the New York State Library School. Ludington worked at Mills College as an assistant professor of bibliography and then associate librarian. In 1936 she left to become the librarian at Mount Holyoke College, where she worked until she retired in June 1964.[4] A long-time member of the American Library Association, Ludington was chairman of the board on International Relations (1942–1944), where she worked on postwar rehabilitation of European libraries and the development of cooperative programs with libraries in Latin America. As president of the American Library Association from 1953 to 1954, she worked established the National Book Committee to "promote wider and wiser distribution of books and to preserve the freedom to read." In 1957 she received the ALA's Joseph W. Lippincott Award for "high achievement."[5] Publications
References1. ^{{cite web|website=Ancestry.com | title=U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.|publisher=Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.|accessdate=30 January 2016}} {{s-start}}{{s-npo}}{{s-bef|before=Robert Bingham Downs}}{{s-ttl|title=President of the American Library Association|years=1953–1954}}{{s-aft|after=L. Quincy Mumford}}{{s-end}}{{ALA Presidents}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Ludington, Flora Belle}}2. ^{{cite web|title=Flora Belle Ludington (1899 - 1967)|url=http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/flora-belle-ludington_35867332|website=Ancestry.com|accessdate=30 January 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Reading Room Celebrates 100 Years|url=https://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/comm/news/library_reading.shtml|website=Mount Holyoke College|accessdate=30 January 2016}} 4. ^{{cite journal|last1=Bevis|first1=Dorothy|title=Flora B. Ludington|journal=Bulletin of Bibliography|volume=21|issue=January–April 1956|pages=193–195}} 5. ^{{cite journal|last1=Johnson|first1=Margaret L.|title=Flora Belle Ludington: A Biography and Bibliography|journal=College and Research Libraries|date=September 1964|volume=25|issue=5|pages=375–379|url=http://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/11711/13157|accessdate=30 January 2016}} 6 : American librarians|1898 births|1967 deaths|University of Washington alumni|Mills College alumni|Mount Holyoke College faculty |
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