Nora Beust

Nora Beust
A smiling white woman with short dark wavy hair
Nora Beust, from a 1925 newspaper
Born1888
New Albany, Indiana
DiedJuly 3, 1973
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Occupation(s)Writer, librarian, college professor, federal education official

Nora Ernestine Beust (1888 – July 3, 1973) was an American librarian, educator, and writer. She taught library science courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and worked in the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school libraries and children's literature.

Early life and education

Nora Beust was born in New Albany, Indiana,[1] the daughter of Max Beust and Dora Segelke Beust.[2] Her father operated a drugstore in New Albany.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1923,[4] and a graduate degree in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).[5][6] At UNC she was a co-founder and first president of the North Carolina chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.[7][8]

Career

Beust was a college reference librarian[9] in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the 1920s,[10][11][12] served on the executive committee of the Wisconsin Library Association,[13] and was active in a sewing club in La Crosse.[14] After graduate school, she stayed in North Carolina and taught at UNC from 1927 to 1937.[2][7][15] She was elected president of the North Carolina Library Association in 1935.[16]

Beust moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937,[17] when she was appointed to work at the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school and children's libraries.[4][5] She produced materials for and about school libraries and children's books, spoke at professional meetings of school librarians,[18] and worked in Korea from 1954 to 1955, on promoting and distributing children's literature.[14][19] She retired from the Office of Education in 1957.[2] She testified before a 1962 House hearing on children's literature in the Library of Congress.[20]

Beust was also active in Altrusa International, and represented the Durham chapter at a national peace conference in 1938.[21] She was later president of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Altrusa.[2]

Publications

  • "New Books for Christmas" (1931)[22]
  • Professional Library Education: Introducing the Library (1938)[23]
  • 500 Books for Children (1940)[24]
  • Know your school library (1940)[25]
  • School Library Administration (1941, with Eunice L. Hoffman)[26]
  • Our neighbor republics; a selected list of readable books for young people (1942, with Emilie Dew Sandsten Lassalle and Jean Gardiner Smith)[27]
  • School Library Standards (1954)[28]
  • Through Golden Windows (1958)[29] a 10-volume story anthology set for young readers co-edited with Jeanne Hale, including:
    • Mostly Magic[30]
    • Fun and Fantasy[31]
    • Wonderful Things Happen[32]
    • Adventures Here and There[33]
    • Good Times Together[34]
    • Children Everywhere[35]
    • Stories of Early America[36]
    • American Backgrounds[37]
    • Wide Wonderful World[38]
    • Man and His World[39]

Personal life

Beust moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina in 1964. She died in 1973, at a nursing home in Black Mountain.[2]

References

  1. ^ Kennon, Mary Frances (October 1953). "Who's Who Among Conference Speakers". North Carolina Libraries. 12: 9 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Nora Beust Dies; Leader in Education". Asheville Citizen-Times. July 4, 1973. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Max Beust Drugstore Building". New Albany Historic Preservation Commission. Retrieved March 11, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "N. C. Librarian Gets U. S. Post". The Charlotte Observer. November 27, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Traveling Librarian Observes Libraries of Local Schools". The News and Observer. September 22, 1952. p. 11. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Librarians to Meet at Chapel Hill High School on Saturday". The Herald-Sun. September 15, 1952. p. 9. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b Green, Charlotte Hilton (December 26, 1954). "Out of Doors in Carolina". The News and Observer. p. 46. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Eta State North Carolina". The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin. 2: 14. June 1936 – via Internet Archive.
  9. ^ "Nora Beust, Formerly Librarian at Local College, Named Specialist". The La Crosse Tribune. December 1, 1937. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Closing Time for Book Week Contest is Extended; Children Asked to Find Hidden Titles". The La Crosse Tribune. November 7, 1926. p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Book Week Will be Profitable to LaCrosse". The La Crosse Tribune. November 7, 1926. p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "To Travel in Europe During Coming Months". The La Crosse Tribune. June 28, 1925. p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Seek Local Rooms for Delegates to Library Meeting". Kenosha News. September 8, 1926. p. 6. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ a b "Phoenix Gathering Marks Local Sewing Club's 50th Anniversary". The La Crosse Tribune. April 26, 1959. p. 19. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Nora Beust and Lucile Kelling Represent U.N.C." The Daily Tar Heel. November 23, 1932. p. 4. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "N.C. Library Group Elects". The Charlotte Observer. October 13, 1935. p. 26. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Teacher Granted Leave Permission". The Daily Tar Heel. May 20, 1937. p. 2. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ "N. C. Librarians to Meet". The News and Observer. September 14, 1952. p. 12. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. ^ "Over the Editor's Desk". Childhood Education. 32 (3): 152. November 1, 1955. doi:10.1080/00094056.1955.10727599. ISSN 0009-4056.
  20. ^ United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations (1962). Military Construction Appropriations for 1963: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session. U.S. Government Printing Office. pp. 358–363.
  21. ^ "Miss Nora Beust Elected Delegate". The Durham Sun. February 3, 1938. p. 5. Retrieved March 10, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ Beust, Nora (December 1931). "New Books for Christmas". School Life: 69.
  23. ^ Beust, Nora E; United States; Office of Education; Library Division (1938). Professional library education: introducing the library. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. OCLC 3903682.
  24. ^ Beust, Nora E (1940). 500 books for children. Washington: U.S. Government Print. Off. OCLC 2619693.
  25. ^ Beust, Nora E; United States; Office of Education (1940). Know your school library. Washington, D.C.: Federal Security Agency, U.S. Office of Education : U.S. G.P.O. OCLC 18524448.
  26. ^ Beust, Nora E; Hoffman, Eunice L (1941). School library administration;. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off. OCLC 3903774.
  27. ^ Beust, Nora E; Lassalle, Emilie Dew Sandsten; Smith, Jean Gardiner; United States; Office of Inter-American Affairs (1942). Our neighbor republics; a selected list of readable books for young people. Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off. OCLC 11909025.
  28. ^ Beust, Nora E; United States; Office of Education (1954). School library standards, 1954. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education. OCLC 1635852.
  29. ^ Hale, Jeanne; Beust, Nora E (1958). Through golden windows. Eau Claire, Wis.: E.M. Hale. OCLC 1406666.
  30. ^ Reust, Nora Eruestine; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Through Golden Windows: Mostly magic. E.M. Hale.
  31. ^ Hale, Jeanne; Beust, Nora E (1958). Fun and fantasy. Eau Claire, Wis.: Hale. OCLC 14402911.
  32. ^ Hale, Jeanne; Beust, Nora Ernestine (1958). Through Golden Windows: Wonderful things happen. Grolier Incorporated.
  33. ^ Reust, Nora Eruestine; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Through Golden Windows: Adventures here and there. E.M. Hale.
  34. ^ Reust, Nora Eruestine; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Through Golden Windows: Good times together. E.M. Hale.
  35. ^ Hale, Jeanne; Beust, Nora E (1958). Children everywhere. New York: Grolier. OCLC 6598671.
  36. ^ Beust, Nora E; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Stories of early America. Eau Claire, Wis.: E.M. Hale. OCLC 4081252.
  37. ^ Beust, Nora E; Hale, Jeanne; Johnstone, Muriel; Fenner, Phyllis R; Leary, Bernice E; Reely, Mary Katharine; Smith, Dora V (1958). American backgrounds. Eau Claire, Wisconsin: E.M. Hale and Company. OCLC 1646583.
  38. ^ Reust, Nora Eruestine; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Through Golden Windows: Wide, wonderful world. E.M. Hale.
  39. ^ Reust, Nora Eruestine; Hale, Jeanne (1958). Through Golden Windows: Men and his world. E.M. Hale.