Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies.
Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians [1] and intellectual freedom in the United States.[2] [3] Her best-known work is The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library.[4] winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Book Award from the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. She was honored with the Willa Literary Award for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West.
Before moving to Madison, Wisconsin, Robbins was a long-time resident of Ada, Oklahoma, where she became the first female city council person and then the first female mayor.[5]
Robbins was named Wisconsin Librarian of the Year in 2001 by the Wisconsin Library Association.[5]
On the occasion of the Oklahoma Library Association Centennial in 2007, she was named one of the state's 100 Library Legends (living or dead).[6]
References
edit- ^ Pawley Christine and Louise S Robbins. 2013. Libraries and the Reading Public in Twentieth-Century America. Madison Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press.
- ^ Robbins Louise S. 1996. Censorship and the American Library: The American Library Association’s Response to Threats to Intellectual Freedom 1939-1969. Westport Conn: Greenwood Press.
- ^ Robbins Louise S. 2001. “The Overseas Libraries Controversy and the Freedom to Read: U.S. Librarians and Publishers Confront Joseph Mccarthy.” Libraries & Culture 27–39.
- ^ Robbins Louise S. 2000. The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown : Civil Rights Censorship and the American Library. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
- ^ a b "Louise S. Robbins". Oklahoma Library Association. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
- ^ Oklahoma's 100 Library Legends Archived 2013-07-07 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved April 3, 2011.
External links
edit- Oklahoma Library Association Awards
- University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies.
- Wisconsin Library Association Awards
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