Reminiscenes of Pura Belpr'e White: oral history, 1976.

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Reminiscenes of Pura Belpr'e White: oral history, 1976.

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Childhood in Puerto Rico, Brooklyn, New York; library assistant, 135th Street branch library, New York Public Library; 135th Street Library's role in Harlem Renaissance; New York Public Library System Library School, 1926; Seward Park branch, children's department librarian, role in book-buying, 1926-1929; 115th Street branch library, Spanish foreign assistant, adult department librarian, children's librarian, 1929-1943; role of 115th Street branch in Spanish-American Renaissance; writing, publishing children's stories in English, Spanish; impact of Puerto Rican hertiage on writing; writing of Puerto Rican folklore, work on Spanish translations of works; Spanish Children's Specialist, Office of Children's Services for the Bronx and Manhattan, 1960; Coordinator of South Bronx Library. Project, South Bronx Puppet Theater.

Transcript: 85 leaves.Tape: 3 cassettes.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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White, Pura Belpr'e, 1902-

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Librarian, author. From the description of Reminiscenes of Pura Belpr'e White: oral history, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309745099 ...

Lopez, Lillian

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Lillian LoĢpez was among the first Puerto Rican librarians in the New Public Library System (NYPL) and a pioneer in her efforts to create library services and programs for Puerto Ricans and other Latinos. Born in Salinas, Puerto Rico in 1925, she moved to New York City in 1935 and settled in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem). In 1960, she joined the NYPL system where she remained for twenty-five years until her retirement in 1985. She become the first Puerto Rican to hold important administrative posit...

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...