- Title:
- The seven joys of reading
- Author:
- Plummer, Mary Wright, 1856-1916.
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PLUMMER, MARY WRIGHT: 1856-1916.
"Mary Wright Plummer (Mar. 8, 1856-Sept. 21, 1916), librarian, teacher, poet, was a native of Richmond, Ind., the daughter of Jonathan Wright and Hannah (Ballard) Plummer, and a descendant of Thomas Plummer born in Prince Georges County, Md., in 1723 … She received her education in local, private and public schools, and in her early days was described as a 'book hungry' girl. After special study at Wellesley in 1881-82, she spent the following four years with her family in Chicago, reading widely, and teaching. On Jan. 5, 1887, she entered the recently opened library school at Columbia College … In the following October she entered as student in the senior course and as a teacher for the incoming junior class. The next two years she served as cataloguer in the St. Louis Public Library under Frederick M. Crunden.
"Resigning in 1890, she spent the summer in Europe, and in the autumn went to the library of Pratt Institute established in Brooklyn in 1887. In 1894 she was made librarian and put in charge of the library school, being given a year's leave of absence, which she spent in Europe. In September 1895 she returned to finish the planning of the new library building, which was opened in 1896 … In 1900 she served as one of the United States delegates to the International Congress of Libraries in Paris. In 1904 she resigned as librarian of the Institute to give her whole time to the school. She left Pratt Institute in 1911 and became head of the new library school opened in connection with the dedication of the central building of the New YorkPublic Library, and there she spent the rest of her life … In June, 1915, [she] was chosen president of the American Library Association. Her fatal illness prevented her presiding at the next meeting in 1916 … She died at the home of her brother in Dixon, III.
Condensed from H. M. L., Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. XV.
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- Hints to Small Libraries. (Anonymous.)Brooklyn, N. Y., 1894.
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- New York: H.W. Wilson, 1915. 20 p. ; 21 cm.
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The Seven Joys of Reading
Mary Wright Plummer
This booklet is sent with best wishes for the New Year and with the hope that its reading will bring you pleasure. The H. W. Wilson Company
Christmas, 1916
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Mary Wright Plummer
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Reprinted from the Sewanee Review, October, 1910.
