{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Short description|Former school for librarians, 1905–1988}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} The '''Carnegie Library School of Atlanta''' was a training school for librarians in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=The Carnegie Library School of Atlanta (1905–25)|date=April 1, 1967|journal=The Library Quarterly|volume=37|issue=2|pages=149–179|doi=10.1086/619528|s2cid=147945806}}</ref> Emory University has a collection of the school's files.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/eua0012CarnegieLibSch/|title=Library School of Carnegie Library of Atlanta director's files, 1905–1971|first=Carnegie Library of Atlanta Library|last=School|date=November 1, 2011|website=findingaids.library.emory.edu}}</ref> Originally known as '''Southern Library School''', it opened at the Carnegie Library on September 20, 1905, with Anne Wallace as its director.<ref name=em>{{Cite web|url=http://afpls.org/history/166-100-years-of-library-service|title=100 Years of Library Service|website=afpls.org|access-date=August 25, 2020|archive-date=July 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712135231/http://afpls.org/history/166-100-years-of-library-service|url-status=dead}}</ref> It affiliated with Emory University in 1925 and remained the only nationally accredited library school until 1930. It closed in 1988.<ref name=em />
In 1921, the Director of the Carnegie Library School, Tommie Dora Barker, opened the Auburn Avenue Branch Library, the first branch library for blacks in Atlanta.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqpJMeDXMwUC&dq=Tommie+Dora+Barker&pg=PA11|title=Supplement to the Dictionary of American Library Biography, Volume 1|last=Carmichael, Jr.|first=James V.|editor-last=Wiegand|editor-first=Wayne A.|publisher=Libraries Unlimited|year=1990|isbn=978-0-87287-586-9|pages=5–11|chapter=Tommie Dora Barker}}</ref> A Carnegie library, it was located in the Sweet Auburn neighborhood.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South: Civil Rights and Local Activism|last1=Wiegand|first1=Wayne A.|last2=Wiegand|first2=Shirley A.|publisher=Louisiana State University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-8071-6867-7|location=Baton Rouge, Louisiana|pages=27}}</ref> The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History succeeded it.
==Alumni== *Ella May Thornton (1885–1971), Georgia State Librarian *Mary Lindsay Thornton (1891–1973), first curator of the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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