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Linda Anne Eastman was born in 1867 in Oberlin, Ohio. She attended, and
later taught, in the Cleveland Public Schools before becoming a library
assistant in 1892. As an assistant librarian and cataloguer for the Dayton
Public Library, she worked for two years. In 1896 she became the
vice-librarian of Cleveland Public. She has taught classes in the Library
School of Western Reserve University and was one of the founding members
of the Ohio Library Association, acting as its president for a year in
1903. She is known best for her writing on the principles of children's
librarianship and on the qualifications of children's librarians, as
described in her 1898 article The Children's Room and the Children's
Librarian, where she stressed a love for children and knowledge
of children's books as essential qualities. Linda Eastman died in 1963.
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