Buehner, Kristin
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Photocopy only; repository does not hold original item. Contact the Iowa Women's Archives at the University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/forms/iwa/ Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 300-600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format. '"0%-'f^ W'M Esther Walls serves as as¬ sociate director of libraries, State University of New York. Walls: A career based on books By Kristin Buehner Staff Writer Associate director of libraries for tlie State University of New York in Stony Brook, Mason City native Esther Walls was educat¬ ed at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and Columbia University in New , York, where she earned a master'^ degree in library science. ; Her libraiy career began at the New York Public Library, where she worked from 1950 to 1965. Among her various duties was her vyork as director of the North Manhattan Li- , br^ry Project, where Walls super* vised a pilot prqject to test the effecti¬ veness of enriched library service in a disadvantaged community.. She later worked as program officer for Franklin Book Programs, Inc., a • non-profit organization dedicated to stimulating book and library pro- . grams in developing countries. In 1972, Walls was appointed direc? tor of U.S. Secretar
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