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developing it as “a clearing-house” of information and fielding research and information requests from practitioners around the world. Kimball also pioneered organizational and housing systems for visual and graphic media such as lantern slides, photographs, plans, maps, and postcards. The techniques employed at
Harvard Graduate School of Design library were based on those used in private offices, particularly the Olmsted firm. During her tenure as librarian, she more than doubled the number of books and pamphlets in the Harvard collection.
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educational programs through her widely published and regularly updated bibliographies of landscape architecture and city planning publications. The bibliographies she published (often called check-lists and ready reference lists) were used by other universities as a basis for library acquisitions, thus forming part of the foundation upon which other educational programs were built.
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addition of the letter (B). The authors thought that this placement most precisely acknowledged the artistic component of landscape architecture, whereas placing it in subclass (S), as it is today, would suggest that it is simply another form of agriculture. Books acquired in this subject area since 1978 are now classed in (SB).
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November 1935 at the age of 48 in Milton, Massachusetts. In a Landscape Architecture obituary, the Boston Chapter of the ASLA lauded her for service to the profession but declined to cite specifics, noting that there was “In these few pages no place for a detailed account . . . many
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Kimball’s library work contributed to landscape architecture education at many schools. She participated for years in the
National Landscape Architectural Education Conference, serving on the Subcommittee on English. She also chaired the Committee on Libraries and Collections, given her influence on
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In her role as librarian, she brought a keen sense of professionalism to her work, and until 1918 when she hired her assistant
Katherine McNamara, appears to have been the only Harvard design librarian with professional library training. Kimball cultivated the library into a specialized institution,
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which for many years was considered the standard text. Through her work she achieved international recognition. As a librarian and writer she made great contributions to the advancement of the profession of landscape design by organizing the information, critiquing the work, and contributing to the
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Landscape Architecture Librarian at Harvard University, creating a "new" library by consolidating collections, held in disparate locations, in Harvard’s Robinson Hall in October 1911. Hubbard's relationship with her brother propelled her into her ultimate career
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across the United States is given special acknowledgment in the preface of the published classification scheme, for having contributed many constructive suggestions. The
Library of Congress originally assigned a place for landscape architecture as a sub-classification to architecture (NA) by the
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One of her most important works: "Municipal
Accomplishment in City Planning" a bibliography of all of the works on urbanism in the United States was published in Europe and the United States to great acclaim. She is credited with writing over 100 editorials, articles, and reviews in addition to
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In 1918 Hubbard became an associate member of the
American Society of Landscape Architects. In 1919, Hubbard became the first woman accepted as a member to the American City Planning Institute. That same year she developed the first
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in 1921. Her portrait in this article is captioned: "Bibliotecaria de la
Universidad de Harvard. Notable escritora de asuntos municipales," which translates as Librarian at Harvard University, and noted writer on the subject of city
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Landscape architecture; a comprehensive classification scheme for books, plans, photographs, notes and other collected material, with combined alphabetic topic index and list of subject headings
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preparing detailed bibliographies and reports on the fields of landscape and city planning. She collaborated with her husband on a basic textbook for landscape architecture,
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later that year, graduating in 1908. In 1917, she received a master’s degree in
Library Science from Simmons College, with a minor and thesis in English landscape gardening.
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literature, giving the field more substance, status and visibility in academic circles. In addition to published books, Hubbard contributed to such journals as
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greatly influenced Kimball’s understanding of the profession. In addition to cataloguing, Hubbard was involved in research for
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Sammarco, Anthony (2002-11-07). "A Piece of Our History: The Magnificent Kimball Siblings were nationally respected".
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where she compiled a subject index to its first sixty volumes. In 1910 she worked for a year as an assistant in the
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