Schomburg was a law clerk who, starting during the Harlem Renaissance, began to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora. You can read his story in Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez. Speaking of famous librarians, we need to mention Arturo Schomburg, an unheralded figure in American letters. (You can put this one down as “ Seattle, Washington” on your book map.) She spoke (and still speaks) regularly about books on NPR’s Morning Edition and KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to mention her monthly television show on the Seattle Channel, Book Lust with Nancy Pearl. Pearl, teased as “library girl” as a child by her classmates, believed in the power of the book and grew up to become the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Who loves books more than librarians? And Library Girlby Karen Henry Clark and Sheryl Murray tells the story of one America’s most famous librarians: Nancy Pearl.
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