Nora Beust Explained

Nora Beust
Birth Date:1888
Birth Place:New Albany, Indiana
Death Date:July 3, 1973
Death Place:Black Mountain, North Carolina
Occupation:Writer, librarian, college professor, federal education official

Nora Ernestine Beust (1888 – July 3, 1973) was an American librarian, educator, and writer. She taught library science courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and worked in the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school libraries and children's literature.

Early life and education

Nora Beust was born in New Albany, Indiana,[1] the daughter of Max Beust and Dora Segelke Beust.[2] Her father operated a drugstore in New Albany.[3] She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1923,[4] and a graduate degree in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC).[5] [6] At UNC she was a co-founder and first president of the North Carolina chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma.[7] [8]

Career

Beust was a college reference librarian[9] in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the 1920s,[10] [11] [12] served on the executive committee of the Wisconsin Library Association,[13] and was active in a sewing club in La Crosse.[14] After graduate school, she stayed in North Carolina and taught at UNC from 1927 to 1937.[15] She was elected president of the North Carolina Library Association in 1935.[16]

Beust moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937,[17] when she was appointed to work at the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school and children's libraries. She produced materials for and about school libraries and children's books, spoke at professional meetings of school librarians,[18] and worked in Korea from 1954 to 1955, on promoting and distributing children's literature.[19] She retired from the Office of Education in 1957. She testified before a 1962 House hearing on children's literature in the Library of Congress.[20]

Beust was also active in Altrusa International, and represented the Durham chapter at a national peace conference in 1938.[21] She was later president of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Altrusa.

Publications

Personal life

Beust moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina in 1964. She died in 1973, at a nursing home in Black Mountain.

Notes and References

  1. Kennon . Mary Frances . October 1953 . Who's Who Among Conference Speakers . North Carolina Libraries . 12 . 9 . Internet Archive.
  2. News: 1973-07-04 . Nora Beust Dies; Leader in Education . 2 . Asheville Citizen-Times . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Web site: Max Beust Drugstore Building . 2022-03-11 . New Albany Historic Preservation Commission.
  4. News: 1937-11-27 . N. C. Librarian Gets U. S. Post . 3 . The Charlotte Observer . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  5. News: 1952-09-22 . Traveling Librarian Observes Libraries of Local Schools . 11 . The News and Observer . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1952-09-15 . Librarians to Meet at Chapel Hill High School on Saturday . 9 . The Herald-Sun . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: Green . Charlotte Hilton . 1954-12-26 . Out of Doors in Carolina . 46 . The News and Observer . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  8. June 1936 . Eta State North Carolina . The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin . 2 . 14 . Internet Archive.
  9. News: 1937-12-01 . Nora Beust, Formerly Librarian at Local College, Named Specialist . 5 . The La Crosse Tribune . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  10. News: 1926-11-07 . Closing Time for Book Week Contest is Extended; Children Asked to Find Hidden Titles . 4 . The La Crosse Tribune . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  11. News: 1926-11-07 . Book Week Will be Profitable to LaCrosse . 4 . The La Crosse Tribune . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1925-06-28 . To Travel in Europe During Coming Months . 4 . The La Crosse Tribune . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1926-09-08 . Seek Local Rooms for Delegates to Library Meeting . 6 . Kenosha News . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1959-04-26 . Phoenix Gathering Marks Local Sewing Club's 50th Anniversary . 19 . The La Crosse Tribune . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: 1932-11-23 . Nora Beust and Lucile Kelling Represent U.N.C. . 4 . The Daily Tar Heel . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1935-10-13 . N.C. Library Group Elects . 26 . The Charlotte Observer . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1937-05-20 . Teacher Granted Leave Permission . 2 . The Daily Tar Heel . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1952-09-14 . N. C. Librarians to Meet . 12 . The News and Observer . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  19. 1955-11-01 . Over the Editor's Desk . Childhood Education . 32 . 3 . 152 . 10.1080/00094056.1955.10727599 . 0009-4056.
  20. Book: United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations . Military Construction Appropriations for 1963: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session . 1962 . U.S. Government Printing Office . 358–363 . en.
  21. News: 1938-02-03 . Miss Nora Beust Elected Delegate . 5 . The Durham Sun . 2022-03-10 . Newspapers.com.
  22. Beust . Nora . December 1931 . New Books for Christmas . School Life . 69.
  23. Book: Beust . Nora E . Professional library education: introducing the library . United States . Office of Education . Library Division . 1938 . United States Government Printing Office . Washington, D.C. . English . 3903682.
  24. Book: Beust, Nora E . 500 books for children. . 1940 . U.S. Government Print. Off. . Washington . English . 2619693.
  25. Book: Beust . Nora E . Know your school library . United States . Office of Education . 1940 . Federal Security Agency, U.S. Office of Education : U.S. G.P.O. . Washington, D.C. . English . 18524448.
  26. Book: Beust . Nora E . School library administration; . Hoffman . Eunice L . 1941 . U.S. Govt. Print. Off. . Washington . English . 3903774.
  27. Book: Beust . Nora E . Our neighbor republics; a selected list of readable books for young people . Lassalle . Emilie Dew Sandsten . Smith . Jean Gardiner . United States . Office of Inter-American Affairs . 1942 . U.S. Govt. Print. Off. . Washington . English . 11909025.
  28. Book: Beust . Nora E . School library standards, 1954 . United States . Office of Education . 1954 . U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education . Washington, D.C. . English . 1635852.
  29. Book: Hale . Jeanne . Through golden windows . Beust . Nora E . 1958 . E.M. Hale . Eau Claire, Wis. . English . 1406666.
  30. Book: Reust . Nora Eruestine . Through Golden Windows: Mostly magic . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . en.
  31. Book: Hale . Jeanne . Fun and fantasy . Beust . Nora E . 1958 . Hale . Eau Claire, Wis. . English . 14402911.
  32. Book: Hale . Jeanne . Through Golden Windows: Wonderful things happen . Beust . Nora Ernestine . 1958 . Grolier Incorporated . en.
  33. Book: Reust . Nora Eruestine . Through Golden Windows: Adventures here and there . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . en.
  34. Book: Reust . Nora Eruestine . Through Golden Windows: Good times together . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . en.
  35. Book: Hale . Jeanne . Children everywhere . Beust . Nora E . 1958 . Grolier . New York . English . 6598671.
  36. Book: Beust . Nora E . Stories of early America . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . Eau Claire, Wis. . English . 4081252.
  37. Book: Beust . Nora E . American backgrounds . Hale . Jeanne . Johnstone . Muriel . Fenner . Phyllis R . Leary . Bernice E . Reely . Mary Katharine . Smith . Dora V . 1958 . E.M. Hale and Company . Eau Claire, Wisconsin . English . 1646583.
  38. Book: Reust . Nora Eruestine . Through Golden Windows: Wide, wonderful world . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . en.
  39. Book: Reust . Nora Eruestine . Through Golden Windows: Men and his world . Hale . Jeanne . 1958 . E.M. Hale . en.

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