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Article: The New Woman as Librarian: The Career of Adelaide Hasse.(Book review)
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- Libraries and the Cultural Record
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- June 22, 2007
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The New Woman as Librarian: The Career of Adelaide Hasse. By Glare Beck. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2006. xii, 348 pp. $45.00 (paper). ISBN 0-8108-5106-7.
In December 1999 American Libraries published a list of important library leaders of the twentieth century. Edwin Anderson, longtime director of the New York Public Library, did not make the cut.
Somewhere, Adelaide Hasse must have been smiling.
I never knew of Hasse until I read this book. In fact, the text for my class in government documents, the 1996 edition of Morehead's Introduction to United States Government Information Sources, does not mention her. Yet Hasse deserves to be known ...