Mark Carl Rom’s latest installment to Profiles from America’s Public Libraries: Finding the Women Who Make Them. is ready below! You can find all of Rom’s submissions to News & Notes at: https://lhrt.news/profiles-from-americas-libraries-finding-the-women-who-make-them/
Frances (“Fannie”) Maria Brainerd O’Linn and the Chadron, Nebraska, Carnegie Library
“The Chadron Public Library sits in a quiet residential neighborhood in this town of some
five thousand Cornhuskers. In 1899, Dr. J.S. Romine, Frances (“Fannie”) Maria
Brainerd O’Linn and Mary Hayward-Smith met to discuss forming a library for the
town. Then, they formed it, with Fannie serving as its secretary…”