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Flexner's reader's advisory, is the cooperation with a library's surrounding educational institutions. By keeping in contact with such institutions, libraries can equip themselves with either appropriate materials or a well-planned advisory list for students and participants to lectures and classes. Flexner ends her article with the following:
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She went to local public school and graduated from
Commercial High School in Louisville at the age of 17. After graduating high school, she went to work for her uncle as a secretary. After that, she worked for The Louisville Herald. It was not until a conversation with her mother and a family friend,
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What is important about
Flexner's article is that the readers’ advisory services can directly relate to a library's usage. Patrons are more likely to return when they have been met with success regarding queries in selecting materials pertinent to their desired tastes. Another important component to
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Flexner was also known as a key innovator for libraries and their role and utilization of adult education, primarily for immigrants, minorities, and refugees during the troubling time of the
Depression and World War II. She chaired a committee that selected books for the Armed Services and advised
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Flexner and Rosa Maas. Both her parents were of deep German-Jewish ancestry. She was the oldest of five children, with one brother and three sisters. Flexner and her siblings experienced a family life full of generous scholarly encouragements and educational backing. Her family was
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Flexner was also a strong advocate for the training and knowledge of the individuals working inside the library. In
Louisville, she was an advocate of service to the black community and the training of black and white librarians. During her time as the circulation head at her hometown library in
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published the article titled “Readers and Books” written by Jennie M. Flexner. In this article she discusses what reader's advisory is and how this service provides readers with the opportunity and confidence to use the library. Here are some quotes from the above-mentioned article:
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Louisville and as a result of her involvement in the professional education of librarians through expanding criteria and developing appropriate materials she wrote a book, "Circulation Work in Public
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Flexner was a strong advocate and leading authority of the newly developing library concept of a reader-centered philosophy, as opposed to the traditional book centered library and she soon became the forefront of writing and discussion for this topic.
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Flexner was encouraged to try for a position at the new library in Louisville, which was funded by Andrew Carnegie. At this pivotal point in her life, Jennie Maas Flexner was introduced to a deep-rooted career in librarianship.
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the council on books in wartime, and when the
European refugees came to New York in the 1930s, she actively played a role in the library by helping people find new resources for their professional and intellectual lives.
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As a child, Flexner attended the local public school, however she did not finish college and did not attain a paying job until the age of twenty-four. At this time she began her career as a secretary at the
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of Louisville in 1903. She took a short leave of absence from the Louisville library in 1908, where she was able to study at the School of Library Service at the
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Campbell, D. Bringing Books and People Together: Jennie Maas Flexner, First Readers' Advisory Librarian at the New York Public Library. Retrieved from
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at the New York City Public Library and author of several books on the library and librarians. In 1926, she served on the curriculum staff of the
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