Susan Grey Akers
American librarian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Susan Grey Akers was an American librarian and the first woman to hold an academic deanship at the University of North Carolina. Biography Akers was born on April 3, 1889, in Richmond, Kentucky, to Clara Elizabeth Harris and James Tazewell Akers, a language professor at the University of Kentucky. She received a bachelor's degree with a major of Latin and minor in Greek from the University of Kentucky in 1909, following which she taught Latin one year in a high school in Kentucky and fifth and sixth grades one year in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1911, she began work at a public library in Louisville, Kentucky, going on to Library School at the University of Wisconsin in 1913, where she befriended director Mary Imogene Hazeltine.
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- Simple library cataloging (10)
- To What Extent Do the Students of the Liberal-Arts Colleges Use the Bibliographic Items Given on the Catalogue Card? (1931) (5)
- Akers' Simple Library Cataloging (1977) (2)
- The Relation of the Professional and Clerical Division of Cataloging Activities to Cataloging Courses (1935) (1)
- Japanese Libraries and Their Needs (1951) (0)
- Relation between theory and practice of cataloging : with special reference to courses in cataloging in library schools (1932) (0)
- Post-Library School Training (1942) (0)
- A Glimpse of Library Conditions in Iran in 1954/55 (1956) (0)
- Library Training Agencies of North Carolina (1948) (0)
- Summer Opportunities to Prepare for an Uncovered Field (1953) (0)
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