The Origin of College Libraries in North Carolina: A Social History, 1890-1920

Seedbed of Professionalism in Southeastern College Libraries, 1890-1920

“…The template of library growth and transformation into information and research centers with trained librarians was established during these years, not earlier. 1 The Southeast as a region provides a wide but coherent geographic area to investigate themes such as the growth of libraries and the introduction of library services. This was not a simple time of pastoral ease but an era of commercialization and even industrialization, a deepening and institutionalization of the Jim Crow racial code, of disfranchisement, of rigid sexism, and a heritage of violence in the Southeast.…”