![]() “Freedom, Communication, and the Classical Roots of the American Librarian” What an Environmental Scan Tells Us about the Future of Libraries and Library Education ![]() “Rogues, Scoundrels, Gunslingers, and Librarians: What Books and Libraries did for Boom-town Knoxville” “Staff Training and Learning: Essential Ingredients for Quality Library Service” “Future of Reading and Libraries in an Age of Hyperlinks” “Preparing Future Information Professionals: Developments at UT and in LIS Education in General” ![]() “Are We Having Fun Yet? Changes in Resource Sharing in Tennessee” Abel, Ed Best, Jr., Margaret Dickson, Barbara Dyer, Mildred Erwin, Elizabeth Hotchkiss, Helen Kuhns, Reese Ripatti “Byting the Dust: Do Alex Haley’s Papers Mark the End of a Long Tradition?” “Finding Harriette Arnow: The Writer As Researcher and Detective” “The Importance of Ghost Stories to Modern American Cultures” “Librarianship Whither? A Curmudgeon Looks at the Profession” “40 Years of Service & Obscurity: A Story of One Special Library” “Needed: Libraries for Local and Regional Development” “Optical Innovations: Laser-Based Storage Techniques” Politics: Librarians Lobbying Legislators? What Have We Got to Lose?” Tom Cannon, Jo Ann Garrett, Marjorie Pike “The Book Sciences Revisited: The Role of Books and Reading in Contemporary New York” “Tools of the Trade in an Electronic Society” Rothrock and the Development of Historical Librarianship” “Powdermilk Biscuits: Communication, Courage, and Clout for Librarians” “The Role of Automation for Tennessee Libraries: A Practical Approach” “School Libraries–Fact, Fiction and Some Half-Truths” “Development of Library Systems and Relationships Among Libraries in Information Networks” ![]() Lecture honoring Miss Rothrock with personal recollections of her life “Facts and Fallacies about Those Other Professionals in Libraries” “Southeastern States Cooperative Library Survey” The Southeastern Library Association has additional information about the award,Īs well as a biography of Mary Utopia Rothrock. In addition to other local and state offices, she served as President of the American Library Association in 1946-47. Miss Rothrock was a Library Specialist with the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the author of two textbooks. From 1916 to 1934 she served as Director of the Knoxville Public Library, and later organized the Knoxville-Knox County Public Library System. She helped organize the first regional library system in the Southeast. Mary Utopia Rothrock (1890-1976) was an important figure in libraries locally and nationally. Named the Mary Utopia Rothrock Lectures in honor of Miss Rothrock, the purpose of the lectures is to “enable local librarians the benefit from ‘new information, direction, and philosophy’ within various areas of the profession.” In 1972 the East Tennessee Library Association inaugurated a series of annual lectures in librarianship. ![]()
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