About: Nettie Barcroft Taylor

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- Rule:
- Inverse Functional Properties:
- "Same As":

About: Nettie Barcroft Taylor Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:Person, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon

http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FNettie_Barcroft_Taylor

Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016) was the Maryland State Librarian for several decades (1960-1988). Taylor was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, where she was the 1932 valedictorian of Haywood High School. She graduated from Florida State College for Women and began her career as a librarian at the County high school in Taylor County, Florida. In 1942, Taylor earned a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, and she joined the Women's Army Corps, becoming the Command Librarian for the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany.

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	Thing foaf:Person person dul:NaturalPerson Eukaryote Person Human Animal animal eukaryote species schema:Person
rdfs:label	Nettie Barcroft Taylor (en)
rdfs:comment	Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016) was the Maryland State Librarian for several decades (1960-1988). Taylor was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, where she was the 1932 valedictorian of Haywood High School. She graduated from Florida State College for Women and began her career as a librarian at the County high school in Taylor County, Florida. In 1942, Taylor earned a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, and she joined the Women's Army Corps, becoming the Command Librarian for the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany. (en)
foaf:name	Nettie Barcroft Taylor (en)
name	Nettie Barcroft Taylor (en)
birth place	Brownsville, Tennessee
death place	Gwynn Oak, Maryland
death place	Gwynn Oak, Maryland
death date	2016-10-21 (xsd:date)
birth place	Brownsville, Tennessee
dcterms:subject	21st-century American women People from Brownsville, Tennessee 1914 births American centenarians American librarians American women librarians Florida State University alumni University of North Carolina alumni 2016 deaths Women centenarians
Wikipage page ID	60347291 (xsd:integer)
Wikipage revision ID	1076905323 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	University of North Carolina 21st-century American women Maryland State Department of Education People from Brownsville, Tennessee Library Services Act 1914 births American centenarians American librarians American women librarians Florida State University alumni Brownsville, Tennessee University of North Carolina alumni U.S. Army American Library Association 2016 deaths Haywood High School Women centenarians Taylor County, Florida Maryland Women's Hall of Fame Women's Army Corps Gwynn Oak, Maryland Florida State College for Women Joseph W. Lippincott Heidelberg, Germany
sameAs	Nettie Barcroft Taylor Nettie Barcroft Taylor
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Maryland_Women's_Hall_of_Fame dbt:Authority_control dbt:Infobox_person dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description
birth date	1914 (xsd:integer)
death date	2016-10-21 (xsd:date)
occupation	Librarian (en)
has abstract	Nettie Barcroft Taylor (1914–2016) was the Maryland State Librarian for several decades (1960-1988). Taylor was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, where she was the 1932 valedictorian of Haywood High School. She graduated from Florida State College for Women and began her career as a librarian at the County high school in Taylor County, Florida. In 1942, Taylor earned a master's degree in library science from the University of North Carolina, and she joined the Women's Army Corps, becoming the Command Librarian for the U.S. Army in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1948, Taylor was hired by the Maryland State Department of Education as supervisor for county and institutional libraries. In 1960, she was promoted to Assistant State Superintendent for Libraries and Chief, Division of Library Development and Services for the Maryland State Department of Education, a.k.a. the Maryland State Librarian. She served in that role until her retirement in 1988. Taylor was active in the American Library Association and lobbied for the passage of the Library Services Act in 1956. She served as president of the Maryland Library Association, she was a founding member of the Chief Officers Of State Library Agencies, and she served as president of the Association for Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies. Taylor received the Maryland Library Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1979, the American Library Association's Joseph W. Lippincott Award in 1984, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments Library Council Outstanding Service Award in 1986. She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2005, the American Library Association recognized her with an Honorary Membership Award. In October 2016, Taylor died of respiratory failure at her home in Gwynn Oak, Maryland. In November 2016 the Maryland Library Association renamed its Leadership Institute the Nettie B. Taylor Maryland Library Leadership Institute. (en)
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Nettie_Barcroft_Taylor?oldid=1076905323&ns=0
page length (characters) of wiki page	3896 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
birth year	1914-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
death year	2016-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
occupation	dbr:Nettie_Barcroft_Taylor__PersonFunction__1
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Nettie_Barcroft_Taylor
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Nettie (name)
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Nettie_Barcroft_Taylor

Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 50 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software