jessamyn
Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
- Annette Lewis Phinazee was the first woman and the first Black American woman to earn a library science PhD from Columbia University, in 1961. She was the first Black president of the NC Library Association in 1975. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette... #BlackHistoryMonth
- Librarians sometimes can be weird as hell. ask.library.harvard.edu/faq/82313
- Thomas Fountain Blue was the first Black person to head a public library, in 1905. The Western Colored Branch was the first Carnegie "colored library" in KY; the first public library in the US to serve Black patrons with an exclusively Black staff. #BlackHistoryMonth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...
