biography
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Power, Effie Louise
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| female
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| lived:
| (1873–1969)
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| biography:
| Children's librarian and writer, born in Conneautville, Pennsylvania, USA. Beginning her career as an assistant in the Cleveland (Ohio) Public Library, she opened the first children's room there in 1898. She also served in the children's department of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh (1909–11, 1914–20) and in St Louis Public Library (1911–14), returning to the Cleveland Library as director of work with children (1920–37). Also in Cleveland, she introduced the ‘Book Caravan’ (1926), a forerunner of the mobile library. She lectured on children and libraries throughout the country, and became a storyteller and instructor in storytelling. During the 1930s she published several collections of stories for children. |
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