Flora Belle Ludington

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Flora Belle Ludington
Born (1898-11-12)November 12, 1898
Huron County, Michigan
Died March, 1967
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Occupation librarian
Nationality American

Flora Belle Ludington (November 12, 1898 - March 1967)[1][2] was an American librarian and author. Ludington servd as the head librarian for Mount Holyoke College in Holyoke, Massachusetts from 1938 until 1964.[3]

Born 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 1953-1954, she worked established the National Book Committee to "promote wider and wiser distribution of books and to preserve the freedom to read." [5]

Publications

  • Books and libraries ; tools of the academic world (American Library Association, 1958)

References

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