[Libs-Or] Women of Library History - Anne Keating

[Diedre Conkling]

"...[Anne] Keating, then 46, left her family and hometown to assume the
position of Ohio University Librarian in the small Appalachian town of
Athens, some 350 miles east of Terre Haute.

Keating, the university’s third Librarian and the first woman to fill that
role, arrived at Athens with an agenda. The Green and White, Ohio
University’s student newspaper, reported that

the very smell of the paint and varnish used in the library redecoration
attests to the initiative and leadership of the new librarian. Several
changes in location and library procedure have already been announced, and
are now being planned and executed. Stacks privilege[s] to be granted to
students soon[; this] comes from Miss Keating’s effort to make the library
more useful and attractive.(4)

Keating immediately embarked upon an ambitious remodeling plan for the
crowded Carnegie Library, including “a new reference room and more
commodious reading room,” as well as “a better and more complete children’s
room.” In 1925, Keating’s charges numbered just 50,000 books and four
assistants....

Much more at
http://womenoflibraryhistory.tumblr.com/post/158438492186/anne-keating




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