Effie Louise Power (1873–1969) represented the high standard of collaboration
among children’s librarians that characterized the entire development
of youth services work. This article examines Power’s role in U.S. library
history as a practitioner, library and information science educator, national
and regional professional leader, and author. Particular emphasis is given to
Power’s place in the network of children’s librarians in the early twentieth
century, her professional authority as the librarian selected by the American
Library Association to write the fi rst textbook for children’s librarianship,
and her success as one of the many librarians who have written and edited
children’s books, especially folktale collections for use in storytelling programs.
Emerging most notably from this research is the discovery of how
energetically, albeit quietly, Power infl uenced not only her contemporaries
but also the next several generations of children’s librarians who have followed
in her professional footsteps.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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