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Rene Paul Chambellan
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Rene Paul Chambellan was an American sculptor who specialized in architectural sculpture. He was also one of the foremost practitioners of what was called the French Modern Style and has subsequently been labeled Zig-Zag Moderne. He also frequently designed in the Greco Deco style, Chambellan was born in Union City, New Jersey. He studied at New York University from 1912 to 1914, in Paris at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design from 1914 to 1917, during the First World War, he was a sergeant in France with the U. S. Army. Chambellan was a resident of Cliffside Park, New Jersey. H, rockefeller Center – Architecture as Theater, New York, McGraw-Hill,1978 ISBN 0-07-003480-X Kvaran, Einar Einarsson Kvaran. Architectural Sculpture of the United States, unpublished manuscript Stern, Robert A. M. Gilmartin, Gregory F. and Mellins, New York 1930 New York, Rizzoli Press,1987 Rene Paul Chambellan - One of Art Decos Greatest Sculptors
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Hendrik Willem van Loon
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Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and award-winning childrens book author. He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and he went to the United States in 1902 to study at Cornell University, receiving his degree in 1905. In 1906 he married Eliza Ingersoll Bowditch, daughter of a Harvard professor, the newlyweds moved to Germany, where van Loon received his Ph. D. from the University of Munich in 1911 with a dissertation that became his first book, The Fall of the Dutch Republic. He was a correspondent for the Associated Press during the Russian Revolution of 1905 and he lectured at Cornell University from 1915 to 1917, in 1919 he became an American citizen. From the 1910s until his death, Van Loon wrote many books, most widely known among these is The Story of Mankind, a history of the world especially for children, which won the first Newbery Medal in 1922. The book was updated by Van Loon and has continued to be updated, first by his son. However, he wrote many other very popular books aimed at young adults. As a writer he was known for emphasizing crucial historical events and giving a picture of individual characters. He also had an informal and thought-provoking style which, particularly in The Story of Mankind, as an illustrator of his own books, he was known for his lively black-and-white drawings and his chronological diagrams. After having revisited Germany many times in the 1920s, he was banned from the country when the Nazis came to power, the titles and subtitles of his books are notable for being lengthy. A list of works by van Loon, with first publication dates, the Fall of the Dutch Republic,1913, Houghton Mifflin Co. The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom,1915, Doubleday Page & Co, Van Loon, Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant. The story of Hendrik Willem van Loon, erasmus with a short life of the author by Gerard Willem Van Loon. For the Classic Club, by Walter J. Black of New York, the Italian songwriter Francesco Guccini has composed a song, dedicated to the memory of his father, who was a lover of van Loons works when he was young. The song is titled Van Loon, and appears in the album Signora Bovary, the journalist Charlie Pierce publishes a quote from van Loon every Wednesday on his politics blog for Esquire in a post titled, Your Weekly van Loon
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The Trumpeter of Krakow
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The Trumpeter of Krakow, a young adult historical novel by Eric P. Kelly, won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American childrens literature in 1929. After seeing a spy lurking around his house in Ukraine, Andrew Charnetski hastily removes his family to a safe location, however, upon his arrival he finds that Tenczynski has been murdered and that his estate is under the control of Elizabeth of Austria, the queen of Poland. Destitute, Charnetski camps his family in the middle of the city for the day, Joseph ends up saving an alchemist named Nicholas Kreutz and his niece, Elżbietka, from a wolfdog. Kreutz offers Joseph and his family an apartment just below his on the unsavory Street of the Pigeons, meanwhile, Andrew Charnetski and his wife have been found by Peter of the Button Face, who has pursued them from Ukraine. Surrounded by bandits and a crowd, Andrew, his wife, and Joseph are only saved by the appearance of Jan Kanty. Kanty offers Andrew the position of night trumpeter in the Church of Our Lady St. Mary, delighted at the prospect of a job and home on such short notice, Andrew accepts both offers. The following night Andrew takes Joseph with him to the tower of the Church of Our Lady St. Mary, leaving his wife behind with Elżbietka. In the tower Andrew explains to his son the story of the trumpeter of Kraków — a trumpeter who, accordingly, the song has always been abruptly cut short. Nicholas Kreutz, meanwhile, teaches a German student named Johann Tring chemistry in the loft above his apartment every evening, all Tring can glean from Kreutzs trances, however, is that the chrysopoeia is at hand. When unhypnotized, Kreutz reasons that there cannot be one stone that automatically changes brass into gold and he believes that all things are subject to change, and wishes to change the bad things in the world to good things through the use of alchemy. An example he gives is the landladys deformed son, Stas, in the meantime, Peter of the Button Face hears Stas, the landladys son, discussing the Charnetskis and pays him a fortune to learn of their whereabouts. He leads a burglary on the Charnetskis apartment while Andrew is up in the church tower and he and his men are surprised, however, by the appearance of Nicholas Kreutz, clad in clothes covered in phosphorus and burning resin, and take him for a demon. The bandits flee and are caught by the watchmen. When Kreutz asks the mercenary why he has come, Peter realized the alchemist is not a demon and he directs Kreutzs attention to the Crystal, then trips the alchemist and grabs the gem, heading for the door. Kreutz throws some explosive powder at Peter, who drops the Crystal in agony, tempted by the realization that the Crystal is the chrysopoeia he and Tring have been ardently seeking, Kreutz steals the Tarnov Crystal before anyone figures what has happened. When he tries to use the Crystal, however, Kreutz realized that it makes him think of his own desires. Andrew teaches Joseph the Heynał, realizing that he may be attacked by seekers of the Crystal, while in the tower one evening, Andrew and Joseph are attacked and held captive by Peter and his band. Peter demands to be led to the location of the Crystal, thinking quickly, Joseph plays the Hejnał the entire way through, not stopping at the broken note
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Teachers College, Columbia University
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Teachers College, Columbia University is the graduate school of education, health and psychology in New York City at Columbia University. Founded in 1887, it has been a Faculty of Columbia University since its affiliation in 1898, Teachers College is also an academic department of the university and its Ph. D degrees are conferred by the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Consistently achieving top rankings, Teachers College alumni and faculty have held prominent positions in academia, government, music, non-profit, healthcare, in general, Teachers College has over 90,000 alumni in more than 30 countries. Forkner, E. Gordon Gee, and Chester Earl Merrow, Teachers College is the oldest and largest graduate school of education in the United States. Less than one-third of students are preparing to become teachers, although admnistratively independent, Teachers College is represented in Columbias governance structure and appoints two senators to the Columbia University Senate. In 2018, Teachers College was ranked #7 among all schools of education by U. S. News & World Report. However, Teachers College has achieved the #1 ranking in the past, Teachers College was founded in 1880 by the philanthropist Grace Hoadley Dodge and philosopher Nicholas Murray Butler to provide schooling for the teachers of the poor children of New York City. The curriculum combined a humanitarian concern to others with a scientific approach to human development. Unlike normal schools, after 1893 Teachers College required all students to have a school diploma. Its professional teacher education was considered the equivalent of the junior and senior years of college, many early students who lacked preparation for the advanced coursework first took introductory liberal arts classes, often at Barnard College. The founders early recognized that professional teachers need reliable knowledge about the conditions under which children learn most effectively, as a result, the Colleges program from the start included such fundamental subjects as educational psychology and educational sociology. As the number of children increased during the twentieth century. The college took on the challenge and instituted programs of study in areas of administration, economics, the area of developmental psychology has specially received numerous accolades. Teachers College was also associated with philosopher John Dewey who taught at the facility, from 1932 to 1939, Teachers College was home to the experimental New College for the Education of Teachers, a progressive undergraduate college. The college was closed due to a combination of growing financial deficits, Teachers College has played a role in curriculum reform efforts, such as during the New Math movement of the 1960s with its Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum Improvement Study program. Teachers College also houses a range of applied psychology degrees. It also houses the programs in Anthropology and it was foundational in the development of the field of Anthropology and Education. By the 1930s, Teachers College had begun to offer courses in anthropology as part of the foundations of education, by 1948 Margaret Mead started what would be a long association with Teachers College where she taught until the early 1970s
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St. John's University (New York City)
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St. Johns University is a private, Roman Catholic, research university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1870, the school was located in the neighborhood of Bedford–Stuyvesant in the borough of Brooklyn. Beginning in the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current location to Utopia Parkway in Hillcrest, St. Johns also has campuses in Staten Island and Manhattan in New York City, overseas in Rome, Italy, and a graduate center in Oakdale, New York. A campus in Paris opened in the Spring of 2009, the school is named after Saint John the Baptist. St. Johns is organized into five schools and six graduate schools. As of 2011, the university has a total of 15,720 undergraduate students and 5,634 graduate students, St. Johns offers more than 100 bachelors, masters, and doctoral degree programs. St. St. Johns Vincentian values stem from the ideals and works of St Vincent de Paul, following the Vincentian tradition, the university seeks to provide an education that encourages greater involvement in social justice, charity and service. St. Johns University was founded as the College of St. John the Baptist at 75 Lewis Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the foundations of the first building were laid in the summer of 1868, and the building was opened for educational purposes September 5,1871. Beginning with the law school in 1925, St. Johns started founding other schools, in 1954, St. Johns broke ground on a new campus in Jamaica, Queens, on the former site of the Hillcrest Golf Club. The following year, the school of the university, St. Johns College. The high school, now St. Johns Prep, took over its former buildings, the last of the schools to relocate to Queens would move there in 1972, bringing an end to the Downtown Brooklyn campus of the university. The university received praise from Time Magazine in 1962 for being a Catholic university that accepted Jews with low household income, later St. Johns was the defendant in a lawsuit by Donald Scheiber for discrimination after being removed because he was Jewish. The court ruled against St. Johns University in this lawsuit, Time also ranked St. Johns as good−small on a list of the nations Catholic universities in 1962. The St. Johns University strike of 1966-1967 was a protest by faculty at the university began on January 4,1966. The strike began after 31 faculty members were dismissed in the fall of 1965 without due process, the tension of that year was noted in Time Magazine stating, cademically, has never ranked high among Catholic schools, in troubles, it outdoes them all. The strike ended without any reinstatements, but led to the unionization of public college faculty in the New York City area. In 1970 arbitrators ruled that the university had not acted improperly, classes began in the fall of 1971, combining the original Notre Dame College with the former Brooklyn campus of St. Johns, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, business and education. In 1990 the tuition and fees at St. Johns was less than half of that at schools like NYU, St. Thy Children here today, galore, Old St. Johns
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Association for Library Service to Children
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The Association for Library Service to Children is a division of the American Library Association, and it is the worlds largest organization dedicated to library service to children. Its members are concerned with creating a future for children through libraries. ALSC sets a standard for service to children through the regular updating of Competencies for Librarians Serving Children in Public Libraries. El día de los niños/El día de los libros, commonly known as Día or Diversity in Action, is a celebration of children, families. Día was created by author/illustrator Pat Mora in collaboration with REFORMA, posters are available to print for free in both English and Spanish. Every Child Ready to Read® @ your library®, commonly abbreviated as ECRR, is a parent education program designed by ALSC, the initiative focuses on the development of early literacy skills in children ages 0–5. Many storytimes and other early childhood programs in libraries across the world incorporate research, the ECRR toolkit is designed to help librarians teach parents that early literacy begins at home and is taught by parents. The toolkit was revised in 2011, in 2015, the ALSC Board accepted a white paper titled Media Mentorship in Libraries Serving Youth. This paper outlines the roll of librarians and other staff who serve youth and families with particular regard to materials. The division also partners with other agencies that serve children to spread the word about the power of reading, early literacy, ALSC announces the awards listed below every January at a Monday morning press conference that takes place during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting. The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery and it is awarded annually to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott and it is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children. The Arbuthnot Award was named in honor of twentieth-century American educator May Hill Arbuthnot and it is awarded annually to honor an author, critic, librarian, historian, or teacher of childrens literature, of any country, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site. The Batchelder Award was named in honor of twetieth-century American librarian Mildred L. Batchelder, the Batchelder Award is unusual in that it is given to a publisher, yet explicitly references a given work, its translator and author. The Belpré Medal was named in honor of twentieth-century Puerto Rican librarian Pura Belpré and it has been given every other year since 1996. Beginning with the 2009 award, it will be given annually, the Carnegie Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It honors the producer of the most outstanding video production for children, the Geisel Award was named in honor of twentieth-century American author Theodor Seuss Geisel. It is given annually to the author and illustrator of the most distinguished American book for beginning readers published in English in the United States during the preceding year
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Padraic Colum
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Padraic Colum was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, childrens author and collector of folklore. He was one of the figures of the Irish Literary Revival. Colum was born Patrick Columb in a County Longford workhouse, where his father worked and he was the first of eight children born to Patrick and Susan Columb. When the father lost his job in 1889, he moved to the United States to participate in the Colorado gold rush, Padraic and his mother and siblings remained in Ireland. When the father returned in 1892, the moved to Glasthule, near Dublin. His son attended the national school. When Susan Columb died in 1897, the family was split up. Padraic and one remained in Dublin, while their father. Colum finished school the year and at the age of seventeen. He stayed in this job until 1903, during this period, Colum started to write and met a number of the leading Irish writers of the time, including W. B. He also joined the Gaelic League and was a member of the first board of the Abbey Theatre and he became a regular user of the National Library of Ireland, where he met James Joyce and the two became lifelong friends. During the riots caused by the Abbey Theatres production of The Playboy of the Western World, Padraic Colums father, Padraic himself was not engaged in the protests, although he did pay his fathers fine afterwards. He collected Irish folk songs, and sometimes rewrote them almost in their entirety, Colum based his poem on one surviving line, while his collaborator, the musicologist Herbert Hughes noted the tune. He was awarded a scholarship by a wealthy American benefactor. He used it to read, study and write and he did not attend University College Dublin, or any other University as a student. He was awarded a prize by Cumann na nGaedheal for his anti-enlistment play, through his plays he became involved with the National Theatre Society and became involved in the founding of the Abbey Theatre, writing several of its early productions. His first play, Broken Soil was performed by W. G. Fays Irish National Dramatic Company, the Land, was one of that theatres first great public successes. He wrote another important play for the Abbey named Thomas Muskerry and his earliest published poems appeared in The United Irishman, a paper edited by Arthur Griffith
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Cornelia Meigs
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Cornelia Lynde Meigs was an American writer of fiction and biography for children, teacher of English and writing, historian and critic of childrens literature. She won the Newbery Medal for her 1933 biography of Louisa May Alcott and she also wrote three Newbery Honor Books. Cornelia Meigs was born December 6,1884, to civil engineer Montgomery C, Meigs, Jr. and Grace Lynde Meigs in Rock Island, Illinois, the fifth of six daughters. The family moved to Keokuk, Iowa when she was one month old, after graduating from Keokuk High School in 1901 she attended Bryn Mawr College, receiving an A. B. degree in 1907. Meigs began writing childrens books while an English teacher at St. Katherines School in Davenport and her first book, The Kingdom of the Winding Road, was published by Macmillan US in 1915. In 1922 she was one runner-up for the inaugural Newbery Medal from the professional librarians, members of the American Library Association were asked to nominate a book and The Windy Hill by Meigs was the last of six that received at least two votes subsequently designated runners-up. She was one of the again in 1929 and 1933. Runner-up works are now called Newbery Honor Books, so latterday editions are authorized to display a seal on the cover. Meigs won a Little, Brown and Co. prize competition with The Trade Wind, Little, Brown published that book in 1927 and subsequently a few more of her works including the childrens biographies of Louisa May Alcott and Jane Addams. Meigs is best known for the Alcott biography, Invincible Louisa, The Story of the Author of Little Women and it follows Alcott from childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston through writing the classic novel Little Women. Kirkus Reviews called Meigs one of the authors of fiction for boys and girls, observed that Little Women is virtually autobiographical. In 1932, Meigs became a professor of English at Bryn Mawr, during World War II she took a year of absence for three years to work for the War Department. After leaving Bryn Mawr, Meigs taught writing at the New School of Social Research in New York City. She was the editor and one writer of A Critical History of Childrens Literature, published by Macmillan in 1953. It was revised under Meigs leadership and re-issued in 1969, in her lifetime Meigs wrote over 30 fiction books for children, as well as two plays, two biographies, and several books and articles for adults. Meigs lived at Sion Hill, Havre de Grace, Maryland and she died at Havre de Grace, Maryland, on September 10,1973. Most of her papers are in the Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College, others are in the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Dear Albert, Your nice birthday letter should have had a long before this
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Anne Parrish
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Anne Parrish was an American novelist and writer of childrens books. She was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal three times from 1925 to 1951, Parrish was born November 12,1888 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish, who came from a Philadelphia family and her mother, Anne, had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a portrait painter and a friend of Mary Cassatt in Paris. Anne Parrish was the sister of the illustrator-writer Dillwyn Parrish and a cousin of the artist Maxfield Parrish. Thomas Parrish was in the Colorado mining business, dying when he was relatively young, Anne Lodge-Parrish then moved the family back to her hometown of Claymont, Delaware. In 1915, Parrish married industrialist Charles Albert Corliss, as a young woman, Parrish trained at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and studied under Thomas Eakins. She chose a career in literature, with her first romantic novel Pocketful of Poses appearing in 1923 and their collaboration titled Knee-High to a Grasshopper was followed by another book for children in 1924, Lustres. In 1925 she was a runner-up for the Newbery Medal for The Dream Coach and that same year, her novel The Perennial Bachelor was the eighth best-selling book for the entire year according to the New York Times and won the Harper Prize from her publisher, Harper & Brothers. An author of stories that featured female protagonists, in 1927. She repeated on the bestsellers list again in 1928 with All Kneeling. Two years later, she married the poet and novelist Josiah Titzell and they made their home in Redding, Connecticut. After he died in 1943, she continued to live there for the rest of her life. Parrish died of a hemorrhage in Danbury. She endowed the Anne Parrish Titzell Professor of Neurology chair at Cornell University, originally for research, Pocketful of Poses Knee-High to a Grasshopper, illustrated by Dillwyn Parrish Lustres, illus. Dillwyn Parrish The Dream Coach, illus
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji
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Dhan Gopal Mukerji was the first successful Indian man of letters in the United States and winner of Newbery Medal 1928. Dhan Gopal Mukerji was born to the Brahmin caste on 6 July 1890, Dhan Gopal describes his childhood and adolescence in the first part of his autobiography Caste and Outcast. Caste details Dhan Gopals induction into the Brahminical tradition of his ancestors, however, disillusioned with the traditional role and impatient of the backward-looking element in strict Hindu society, he left the ascetic life to study at the University of Calcutta. Here, in the circle of his brother Jadugopal Mukherjees friends, Jadu Gopal was subsequently jailed without trial from 1923 to 1927. Dhan Gopal later wrote a memoir about Jadu Gopal, titled My Brothers Face, in 1910, hoping to save the younger brother from police action, Dhan Gopals family sent him to Japan to study industrial machinery. After a short stay in Japan, he boarded a ship for San Francisco, Dhan Gopal took his ideology with him to America where he fell in with a number of dirt-poor anarchists like himself. His experiences among them, in San Francisco and New York, are detailed in Outcast, in San Francisco he looked about for a way to support himself and pay for his college education, and soon lit upon writing. At this time, he was a student at the University of California at Berkeley for three years, financial constraints and his political radicalism made him move on to Stanford University, from where he earned a graduate degree in metaphysics in 1914. He socialised with leftists, anarchists and freethinkers and became aware of the plight of the underclass and he married Ethel Ray Dugan, an American artist and painter, in 1918, and they had a son, also called Dhan Gopal. His son popularly known as Dan Mukerji became one of the top officials of Pan American Airlines, in the 1920s, Mukerji moved to New York and began his most prolific period of writing, published mainly by E. P. Of his many books, Kari the Elephant was the first to see publication, in 1922, followed by Hari. Gay was the most successful, Mukerji won the 1928 Newbery Medal from the American Library Association recognising it as the years best American childrens book, one theme is man and winged animals as brothers. Mukerjis other childrens books include Ghond, the Hunter, The Chief of the Herd, Hindu Fables for Little Children, Rama, the Hero of India, The Master Monkey, and Fierce-Face, the Story of a Tiger. All these childrens books were published by Dutton with professional illustrations, many of his works were reworkings of stories he had heard as a child. Others were inspired by his own experiences in India as a child among the jungles of Bengal, among Mukerjis writings for adults are A Son of Mother India Answers, Devotional Passages from the Hindu Bible and Visit India with Me, Disillusioned India and My Brothers Face. The Face of Silence is about the saint and visionary Ramakrishna Paramhansa and is said to have deeply influenced Romain Rolland. The details of his life are hazy, but there is some evidence to believe that relations with his wife entered a difficult phase at the end of his life. Finally, in 1936, he hanged himself on 14 July, shortly after his forty-sixth birthday, desani and Mulk Raj Anand by some ten or twenty years
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American Library Association
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The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, founded by Justin Winsor, Charles Ammi Cutter, Samuel S. Green, James L. Whitney, Melvil Dewey, Fred B. Perkins, Charles Evans, and Thomas W. Bicknell in 1876 in Philadelphia, in attendance were 90 men and 13 women, among them Justin Winsor, William Frederick Poole, Charles Ammi Cutter, Melvil Dewey, and Richard Rogers Bowker. Attendees came from as far west as Chicago and from England, the aim of the Association, in that resolution, was to enable librarians to do their present work more easily and at less expense. The Association has worked throughout its history to define, extend, protect, during this period, the first Library Bill of Rights was drafted by Forrest Spaulding to set a standard against censorship and was adopted by the ALA in 1939. This has been recognized as the moment defining modern librarianship as a committed to intellectual freedom. The ALA formed the Staff Organizations Round Table in 1936 and the Library Unions Round Table in 1940, the ALA appointed a committee to study censorship and recommend policy after the banning of The Grapes of Wrath and the implementation of the LBR. The committee reported in 1940 that intellectual freedom and professionalism were linked and recommended a permanent committee – Committee on Intellectual Freedom, in 1961, the ALA took a stand regarding service to African Americans and others, advocating for equal library service for all. An amendment was passed to the LBR in 1961 that made clear that an individuals library use should not be denied or abridged because of race, religion, national origin, some communities decided to close their doors rather than desegregate. In 1963, the ALA commissioned a study, Access to Public Libraries, in 1967 some librarians protested against a pro-Vietnam War speech given by General Maxwell D. This group called themselves the Organizing Committee for the ALA Round Table on Social Responsibilities of Libraries and this group drew in many other under-represented groups in the ALA who lacked power, including the Congress for Change in 1969. This formation of the committee was approved in 1969 and would change its name to the Social Responsibilities Round Table in 1971). After its inception, the Round Table of Social Responsibilities began to press ALA leadership to address such as library unions, working conditions, wages. The Freedom to Read Foundation was created by ALAs Executive Board in 1969, the Black Caucus of the ALA and the Office for Literacy and Outreach were set up in 1970. His comments were inappropriate and fell far short of the commitment to diversity. Handlers remarks come at a time when the world has little diversity. Works from authors and illustrators of color make up less than 8 percent of children’s titles produced in 2013, the ALA hopes this regrettable incident will be used to open a dialogue on the need for diversity in the publishing industry, particularly in regards to books for young people. The ALA Archives, including documents, non-current records
