Eliza Atkins Gleason

Eliza Atkins Gleason
Born
Eliza Valeria Atkins

December 15, 1909
DiedDecember 15, 2009 (aged 100)
EducationFisk University (B.A)
University of Illinois (B.A.S)
University of California Berkeley (M.A)
University of Chicago (Ph.D)
Occupation(s)Librarian and Professor
SpouseDr. Maurice Francis Gleason
Children1
Parent(s)Simon Green Atkins
Oleona Pegram Atkins
RelativesJasper Alston Atkins (brother)

Eliza Atkins Gleason (born Eliza Valeria Atkins;[1] December 15, 1909 – December 15, 2009)[2] was the first African American to receive a doctorate in Library Science at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. In 1941, she established and became the first Dean of the School of Library Service at Atlanta University and created a library education program that trained 90 percent of all African-American librarians by 1986.[3]

Education

Gleason was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to Simon Green Atkins and Olenona Pegram Atkins.[4] Both of her parents were educators; her mother was a teacher and her father was the founder and first president of Slater State College, now Winston-Salem State University.

After receiving her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois in 1931, she took her first library job in Louisville, Kentucky, at Louisville Municipal College (originally known as Louisville Municipal College for Negroes) where she soon became the head librarian, following in the footsteps of her sister, Olie Atkins Carpenter, who was a librarian at this institution, as well.[5]

In 1936, Gleason received her master's from the University of California, Berkeley and moved to Chicago where she received her Ph.D. in 1940 from the University of Chicago. Her dissertation, The Southern Negro and the Public Library: A Study of the Government and Administration of Public Library Service to Negroes in the South, was published in 1941 and was the first complete history of library access in the South, with a focus on African-American libraries.[6] Her adviser was Carleton B. Joeckel.

Career

She then took a position as the director of libraries at Talladega College in Alabama. In 1941 she established and became the first Dean of the School of Library Service at Atlanta University.[4]

Gleason left Atlanta in 1946 to join her husband – Dr. Maurice Francis Gleason – in Illinois, where he was setting up a medical practice after having served in the military. The Gleasons married in 1937 and had a daughter, Joy Gleason Carew, who is now a professor of Pan-African studies at the University of Louisville.[7][8][9] After stints at Woodrow Wilson Junior College and Chicago Teachers College, as well as a term as a guest lecture at the University of Chicago, Gleason became an associate professor in library science at the South Chicago branch of the Illinois Teachers College in 1964.

Gleason was the first African American to serve on the board of the American Library Association from 1942 to 1946.[10] In 1978, she was appointed to the Chicago Public Library board and became the executive director of the Chicago Black United Fund.[4]

Death and Legacy

Gleason died on December 15, 2009; her 100th birthday. In 2010, she was posthumously inducted into the University of Louisville's College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Honor.[11]

The American Library Association awards the triennial Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award in her honor for the best book written in English in the field of library history, including the history of libraries, librarianship, and book culture.[12]

Past recipients include: Dr. Cheryl Knott, Christine Pawley, David Allan, Carl Ostrowski, and Louise Robbins.[13]

Further reading

  • Gleason, Eliza Valeria Atkins (1941). The Southern Negro and the Public Library: A Study of the Government and Administration of Public Library Service to Negroes in the South. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-598-49466-5.
  • Gleason, Eliza Atkins (1945-10-01). "Facing the Dilemma of Public Library Service for Negroes". The Library Quarterly. 15 (4): 339–344. doi:10.1086/617176. JSTOR 4303408. S2CID 143909070. ProQuest 1290793130.

Notes

  1. ^ Knott, Cheryl (2014), Cottenet, Cécile (ed.), "The Publication and Reception of The Southern Negro and the Public Library", Race, Ethnicity and Publishing in America, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 51–76, doi:10.1057/9781137390523_3, ISBN 978-1-349-48265-8, retrieved 2023-12-23
  2. ^ "Obituary - Dr. Eliza Atkins Gleason — Women's Center". louisville.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  3. ^ ALA World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. American Library Association (ALA). 1985. p. 313. ISBN 0-8389-0427-0.
  4. ^ a b c Josey, E. J. (1980) "Gleason, Eliza Atkins (1909– )" In Wedgeworth, Robert (editor) (1993) World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (Third edition) American Library Association, Chicago, pages 325-326, ISBN 0-8389-0609-5
  5. ^ "Little Known Black Librarian Facts: Librarian Education: Eliza Atkins Gleason, First African American to Earn PHD in Library Science". 8 September 2011.
  6. ^ Gleason, Eliza Valeria Atkins (1941). The southern Negro and the public library; a study of the government and administration of public library service to Negroes in the South. Chicago, Ill: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 1427955.
  7. ^ "Changing Minds, Making a Difference: Eliza Atkins Gleason". UC Berkeley School of Information. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  8. ^ "Eliza Atkins Gleason (1909-2009) — College of Arts & Sciences". louisville.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  9. ^ Tribune, Chicago (25 January 2010). "Death Notice: ELIZA ATKINS GLEASON". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  10. ^ Fredrick Ohles; Shirley M. Ohles; John G. Ramsey (1997). Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators. Westport, CT: GreenWood Publishing Group., ISBN 0313291330
  11. ^ Video on YouTube
  12. ^ "Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award", American Library Association.
  13. ^ .Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award.March 29, 2007. American Library Association. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/ors/orsawards/gleasoneliza/gleasonprevwin

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