The Mary Elizabeth Poole Papers contain the manuscript for Documents Office Classification, compiled by Mary Elizabeth Poole, Documents Librarian, D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University. Mary Elizabeth Poole (1914-2017) received an A.B. in history from Duke University in 1935, and a B.S. in library science from the ...
MoreThe Mary Elizabeth Poole Papers contain the manuscript for Documents Office Classification, compiled by Mary Elizabeth Poole, Documents Librarian, D.H. Hill Library, North Carolina State University. Mary Elizabeth Poole (1914-2017) received an A.B. in history from Duke University in 1935, and a B.S. in library science from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1936. From 1936 to 1943 she was the documents librarian at Duke University. Poole began working at D.H. Hill Library at North Carolina State College (later, University) in 1945. She contributed to the field of documents librarianship through her publications Documents Office Classification and The “Classes Added” Reprint Edition of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1924. In 1978 Poole received the James B. Childs Award, the highest honor the American Library Association can bestow on a documents librarian. She also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the UNC School of Information and Library Science in 1981 and the Watauga Medal in 1982.Mary Poole passed away August 30, 2017 at the age of 102.
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