Alice Isabel Hazeltine

Alice Isabel Hazeltine
A half-tone image of a smiling white woman
Alice Isabel Hazeltine, from a 1921 newspaper
BornApril 15, 1878
Warren County, Pennsylvania
DiedMay 30, 1959(1959-05-30) (aged 81)
New York City
Occupation(s)Librarian, writer, editor

Alice Isabel Hazeltine (April 15, 1878 – May 30, 1959) was an American librarian, writer, and editor. She was on the faculty of the School of Library Service at Columbia University, and edited several collections of stories for children and teenagers, published in multiple editions through the twentieth century.

Early life and education

Hazeltine was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, the daughter of William Vincent Hazeltine and Isabella McIntosh Hazeltine. Her father was a medical doctor.[1] Having received her early education at Warren High School,[2] she graduated from Syracuse University in 1901 and continued her studies at the New York State Library School from 1901 to 1902.[3] She completed doctoral studies in 1929, with a dissertation titled A children's librarian in Europe (1929).[4]

Career

Hazeltine worked at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, as first assistant in the children's department. She also worked at libraries in Buffalo,[5] Providence[6] and St. Louis.[7][8] She taught summer library courses at Simmons College, and was assistant professor in the School of Library Service at Columbia University from 1927 to 1943, teaching courses on library work with children.[9] A proponent of fairy tales,[10] folk tales and storytelling events for children,[7][11] she recommended books for home libraries[12] and edited and co-edited several collections of traditional tales for children and teens, around holiday and other themes.[13][14][15]

Publications

  • "Story-telling in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh" (1909)[11]
  • Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls (1915, co-editor, with Elva Sophronia Smith)[15]
  • "Methods of Training Children to Use the Library Intelligently" (1916)[16]
  • Library Work with Children (1917, editor)[17]
  • Plays for Children, an Annotated Index (1918)[18]
  • What is a Children's Librarian? (1921, pamphlet)[19]
  • How to Become a Children's Librarian (1927, pamphlet)[20]
  • "Development of traits of personality in children's librarians" (1927)[21]
  • Syllabus for the study of reading interests of children (1937)[22]
  • The Easter Book of Legends and Stories (1947, co-editor with Elva Sophronia Smith)[14]
  • Children's Stories to Read or Tell for Pleasure and Understanding (editor, 1949)[13]
  • Stories of Love (1951, co-editor with Elva Sophronia Smith)[23]
  • Selected Stories for Teen Agers, for Pleasure and Understanding (editor, 1952)[24]
  • We Grew Up in America (editor, 1954)[25]
  • The Year Around: Poems for Children (1956, co-editor with Elva Sophronia Smith)[26]
  • Red man, white man; legends, tales, and true accounts of the American Indians (editor, 1957)[27]
  • Below the Surface: Stories of Adventure Under Land and Water (1958)[28]
  • Hero Tales from Many Lands (1961, editor)[29]

Personal life

Hazeltine was well travelled, enjoying many associations in Europe and spent many holidays in Kennebunkport, Maine.[2] She died in 1959, aged 81 years, in New York City.[30] Her papers are the Butler Library at Columbia University.[31]

References

  1. ^ Raymond, Joseph Howard (1899). History of the Long Island College Hospital and Its Graduates: Together with the Hoagland Laboratory and the Polhemus Memorial Clinic. Assn. of the Alumni. pp. 252–253.
  2. ^ a b "Obituaries: Miss Alice Hazeltine". Warren Times Mirror. June 1, 1959. p. 6.
  3. ^ Syracuse University (1911). Alumni Record and General Catalogue of Syracuse University...: 1872-1910, including Genesee college, 1852-1871 and Geneva medical college, 1835-1872. 1911. 1 v. in 2. p. 987.
  4. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1929). A children's librarian in Europe (Thesis). OCLC 48779473.
  5. ^ "Change in Library". The Buffalo Commercial. 1913-09-17. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-07-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ King, Anna M. (1953-05-17). "Review of 'Selected Stories for Teen-Agers'". The Morning Call. p. 35. Retrieved 2022-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b "Tells the Benefits of Old Folk Stories". The Evening Missourian. 1916-06-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Latter Day Children Read Good Literature". Boston Post. 1921-07-13. p. 5. Retrieved 2022-07-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Miss Hazeltine Visits Here". The Warren Tribune. 1927-06-20. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Fairy Tales are Good for Childish Mind". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 1911-10-18. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-07-08 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ a b Hazeltine, Alice I. "Story-Telling in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh." ALA Bulletin 3 (1909): 413-5.
  12. ^ "Society". Hartford Courant. 1928-11-22. p. 9. Retrieved 2022-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ a b Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1949). Children's stories to read or tell for pleasure and understanding. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press. OCLC 39359543.
  14. ^ a b Hazeltine, Alice Isabel; Smith, Elva Sophronia (1992). The Easter book of legends and stories. Detroit: Omnigraphics. ISBN 978-1-55888-857-9. OCLC 925178180.
  15. ^ a b Smith, Elva Sophronia; Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (2015). Christmas in legend and story: a book for boys and girls. FB&C Limited. ISBN 978-1-330-98348-5. OCLC 1001467286.
  16. ^ Hazeltine, Alice I. "Methods of training children to use the library intelligently." Public Libraries 21, no. 4 (1916): 160-162.
  17. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1917). Library work with children reprints of papers and addresses selected and annotated. White Plains, N.Y.: H.W. Wilson Co. OCLC 68424371.
  18. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel; Patten, Cora Mel; American Library Association (1921). Plays for children, an annotated index. Chicago: American Library Association Publishing Board. OCLC 1320966357.
  19. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1921). What is a children's librarian?. OCLC 1100475978.
  20. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel; St. Louis Public Library; Library School (1927). How to become a children's librarian: with illustrations from St. Louis and the St. Louis Public Library. St. Louis: Library School, Public Library. OCLC 575208507.
  21. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1927). Development of traits of personality in children's librarians. Place of publication not identified. OCLC 50234430.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  22. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1941). Syllabus for the study of reading interests of children, for use in connection with Library service 276. New York: School of Library Service, Columbia University. OCLC 5906026.
  23. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel; Smith, Elva Sophronia (1951). Stories of love. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. OCLC 1411961.
  24. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1952). Selected stories for teen-agers: for pleasure and understanding. OCLC 1571470.
  25. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1954). We grew up in America. N.Y: Abingdon. OCLC 762062039.
  26. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel; Smith, Elva Sophronia (1973). The year around; poems for children. Freeport, N.Y.: Book for Libraries Press. ISBN 978-0-8369-6403-5. OCLC 516257.
  27. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1957). Red man, white man; legends, tales, and true accounts of the American Indians. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. OCLC 1685297.
  28. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1958). Below the surface. New York: Abingdon Press. OCLC 1028666136.
  29. ^ Hazeltine, Alice Isabel (1961). Hero tales from many lands. New York: Abingdon Press. ISBN 9780687169436. OCLC 575189647.
  30. ^ "Deaths". The Warren County Observer. 1959-06-04. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-07-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  31. ^ Alice Isabel Hazeltine Papers, Butler Library, Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections.