Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries

In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded...
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Author: Florence M. Jumonville
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Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries by Jumonville, Florence M.

Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries

¥16,771

Spreading the Gospel of Books: Essae M. Culver and the Genesis of Louisiana Parish Libraries

¥16,771
Author: Florence M. Jumonville
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In 1925, Essae Martha Culver, a California librarian, arrived in Louisiana to direct a three-year project funded by the Carnegie Corporation that aimed to introduce public libraries to rural populations. Culver purchased a round-trip ticket, but she never used the second half. Instead, she stayed in Louisiana the rest of her life, working tirelessly to see libraries established in every parish by 1969.

In Spreading the Gospel of Books, Florence M. Jumonville chronicles the impressive, colorful history of Louisiana parish libraries and the State Library of Louisiana. She draws upon Culver's journals and library reports, in addition to correspondence, scrapbooks, and State Library internal documents, and includes photos from five decades, many never before published. The campaign to persuade individual parishes to financially support a library of their own was a long, uphill pull through poverty and politics, flood and famine, discouragement and depression, war and bureaucracy, ignorance and prejudice. Culver credited success to the citizens, whose thirst for books and embrace of the idea of a library inspired perseverance.

In time, Culver's Louisiana plan served as an exemplar of library development elsewhere in the United States as well as abroad. Culver touched the lives of generations of Louisianians who have never heard her name. Spreading the Gospel of Books is her story, along with that of colleagues and supporters, of making the dream of library service come true for all.

Author: Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 11/06/2019
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780807170199

About the Author
Florence M. Jumonville, a native New Orleanian, is the archivist at Touro Infirmary. There and in previous positions at The Historic New Orleans Collection and the University of New Orleans Library, she has worked with Louisiana materials and special collections for over forty-five years and has written extensively on Louisiana history.

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