56 BCALA NEWS Volume 41, Issue 3


Summer 2014


PHOTO: AN UNDATED PHOTO OF REGINA ANDERSON ANDREWS, SEATED, WITH ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN EDNA LAW. PHOTO COURTESY PHOTOGRAPHS AND PRINTS DIVISION, SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY


Renaissance Li n


The Intersection of Librarianship and Fine Art: An Interview with R


drso d Dr. Ethelene Whitmire BY JASON ALSTON, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA


Editor’s note: The following is an interview with Dr. Ethelene Whitmire regarding her work, ‘‘Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian.” Whitmire’s work was published in 2014 and full information about the title is available at http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/ catalog/56bey4yp9780252038501.html. Dr. Whitmire is a professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and she maintains a blog at http:// ethelenewhitmire.wordpress.com/.


Jason Alston: There aren’t very many biographies about librarians, especially African-American librarians, so why did you feel the Regina Anderson Andrews story needed to be captured in a full-length biography?


egia Ane n Anrews, H earlm brarian author,


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