Additional Pioneering Women Librarians

• Mary Evelyn Hall 1874-1956 - Pioneering High School Librarian

• Adelaide Rosalie Hasse (1868-1953) - Superintendent of Documents Classification

• Hannah Packard James (1835- 1903) - Head Librarian in Wilkes-Barre, Penn, called Osterhout Free Library

• Flora Belle Ludington (1898-1967) - Head Librarian at Mout Holyoke College, President of ALA from 1953-1954

• Margaret Mann (1873 – 1960) - Noted librarian and teacher who influenced the field of cataloging.

• Allie Beth Martin (1914 – 1976)  - Known for ground-breaking library improvement programs

• Anne Carroll Moore - (1871 – 1961) - Advocate for children's libraries

• Margaret Cross Norton - (1891 – 1984) - Served as the first State Archivist of Illinois and co-founded the Society of American Archivists in 1936

• Marcia Crocker Noyes - (1869–1946) -  librarian at The Maryland State Medical Society from 1896 to 1946, and founding member of the Medical Library Association.

• Alethia Annette Lewis Hoage Phinazee  - (1920 – 1983) - first woman and the first black American woman to earn a doctorate in library science from Columbia University.

• Rebecca Browning Rankin - (1887 – 1965) - director of the New York City's Municipal Reference Library from 1920-1952, for thirty-two years.

• Katharine Lucinda Sharp - (1865 – 1914) - Founded the Univeristy of Illinois' Library Science program in 1893, Head Librarian and Director of  UI Urbana-Champaign

Special Mention (contributions outside of the US)-

• Mary Elizabeth Wood (1861 – 1931) -credited for launching the Boone Library School in 1920, the first Library School in China.

More photos and images of women in librarianship

• Library Workers Preparing Books, 1878, Descrip:  Del Baldwin, Tence Massey and Anna Pope are preparing library books for circulation.  The library was housed in Nereus Baldwin's photographic gallery, located in the 100 block East Douglas.  Baldwin was an early Wichita photographer.
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• Wichita Library Personnel, 1903, Descrip: Interior of the Wichita City Library, located inside City Hall at 204 South Main.  Assistant Librarians Laura Bell and Kathryn A. Cossitt are seated at the desk.  Anna Eugene Wiegand, the Librarian, is standing.  The library moved from the City Hall building to the Carnegie library building located next door at 230 South Main in May 1915. https://cdm15942.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15942coll24/id/2264/rec/4 

• Fairmount College students in Morrison Library, 1920, Descrip: Librarian Alice Isely stands at the door while Fairmount College students pose in Morrison Library. https://cdm15942.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15942coll159/id/3/rec/8 

• Wichita City Library Children's Story Telling, 1950, Descrip: Children's story telling at the Wichita City Library, 220 South Main.  Frances Sullivan, is the children's librarian reading the book.  On the front row one girl is dressed in a Brownie uniform and another girl in a Camp Fire Girls uniform. https://cdm15942.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15942coll24/id/2171/rec/12 

• Linda Anne Eastman - https://case.edu/ech/articles/e/eastman-linda-anne 

• Toward a History of Women in Librarianship: A Critical Analysis with Suggestions for Further Research. Mary Niles Maack. The Journal of Library History (1974-1987) , Spring, 1982, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 164-185 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25541260.pdf 

• The Tender Technicians: The Feminization of Public Librarianship, 1876-1905. Dee Garrison. Journal of Social History, Winter, 1972-1973, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Winter, 1972-1973), pp. 131-159  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3786606.pdf