Florence Ragland, Early Librarian at Western

Authors

Jonathan Jeffrey, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Comments

Article originally appeared in Kentucky Explorer, vol. 9, no. 3 (July/Aug. 1994): 51-53. Reposted here with permission.

Abstract

Florence Ragland (1861-1949) served as the first librarian for Western Kentucky State Normal School (now Western Kentucky University) from 1908 to 1923. This biographical article documents how she helped develop and reference the collection with meagre resources. She also advised librarians and teachers on collection development for rural school libraries and taught both botany and English classes as Western during her tenure.

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Library and Information Science

Recommended Repository Citation

Jeffrey, Jonathan. (1994). Florence Ragland, Early Librarian at Western. Kentucky Explorer, 9 (3), 51-53.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_fac_pub/38