American Library Association (ALA)

Scope and Contents Interview with Julia Armistead by McClung Collection Director Steve Cotham in 2003.Armistead discusses her ealy life in Danville, Kentucky and Knoxville, her father's work for Southern Railways, attending Knoxville High School, earning her Library Science masters degree, living on Magnolia Avenue and in Sequoyah Hills, working for the American Library Association in Washington, D.C. and legislation she helped craft, working at Lawson McGhee Library and being a member of the...

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Scrapbook with photographs and clippings and papers re: American Library Association (ALA), Washington DC office. Jullia Bennett (later Mrs. John Armistead) was director of the ALA Washington Office.

Scope and Contents Papers of Martha Louise Ellison, who was a librarian at the Knoxville Public Library, as well as at the University of Tennessee, Boyd Junior High School in Knoxville, and Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. Collection includes: ALA Public Libraries Division Reference Survey, 1956;articles, reports, programs, 1958-1962 correspondence, 1962, 1968-1974; clipping “The Martha Ellison Library,” Owl and Spade, Spring 1983; certificates from UT, 1981, and East Tennessee Historical Society,...

Scope and Contents Mary Utopia Rothrock (1890-1976) papers. Weeded by Miss Rothrock before donation. Subject divisions include: Biographical material; library; speeches, writings and publishing; history textbooks; historical research; Tennessee Historical Commission; historic preservation; McClung Collection; East Tennessee Historical Society; other historical societies; hereditary societies and groups; Rothrock genealogy; correspondence and papers; diaries and calendars; person papers--property holdings,...