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Susan Grey Akers came to UNC's new School of Library Science in 1931, became acting director and the university's first woman full professor in 1932, director in 1935, and dean in 1942, the first woman dean at UNC-Chapel Hill. She retired from the deanship in 1954 and stayed active at the school until her death in 1984.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: 225 years of Tar Heels: Susan Grey Akers (October 31, 2018)
1889–1984 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Susan Grey Akers (1889-1984) prepared this typescript for a talk at the Epsilon Beta Chi Omega Fraternity annual banquet in Chapel Hill on 28 March 1966. It concerns the travels and career of a faculty member of the University of North Carolina School of Library Science. The text sits in UNC's North Carolina Collection.
Biographical sketch of Susan Grey Akers, who taught in the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina, detached from the UNC library news sheet, volume 14, number 2, of summer 1954. A bibliography of Akers's writings is included. She lived from 1889 to 1984.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Akers, Susan Grey, 1889-1984.
Susan Grey Akers, a teacher in the School of Library Science at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, is the subject of this profile in a series on librarian authors. It was detached from the November 15, 1932 issue of Library journal and published in New York by R.R. Bowker. Topics include library science teachers in Chapel Hill and the school's faculty.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Akers, Susan Grey, 1889-1984.
Departmental records of the School of Information and Library Science at Chapel Hill, 1924 to 2010, roughly 18,800 items in 24 linear feet, in the University Archives at UNC, collection 40044. The records concern library education in North Carolina and the School of Library Science, with Susan Grey Akers, Edward G. Holley, Evelyn H. Daniel, Barbara B. Moran and Louis Round Wilson named.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Akers, Susan Grey, 1889-1984.
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Picture: Susan Grey Akers, 1922. Public domain. Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) 30 Apr 1922, Sun • Page 18 www.newspapers.com; via Wikimedia Commons
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