{"id":6846,"date":"2016-04-14T15:21:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2016-04-14T15:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T20:26:53","slug":"the-life-of-a-librarian-imagine-the-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2016\/04\/14\/the-life-of-a-librarian-imagine-the-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life of a Librarian…Imagine the Possibilities!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of National Library Week<\/a>, we\u00a0searched the archives of the Davenport Public Library to find\u00a0this image of\u00a0the library booth at Davenport High School’s Career Day on May 6, 1949. Librarian Myrtle Dunlap discusses\u00a0career opportunities\u00a0at public, school, and special libraries with these three students:<\/p>\n

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Library booth at Davenport High School’s Career Day [06 May 1949] Myrtle Dunlap, Davenport High School Librarian<\/p><\/div>Myrtle Nellie Dunlap was born October 1st, 1903 in Cornland, Illinois. She worked as a librarian at Davenport Public Library in the 1930’s, then as a school librarian at Sudlow, Monroe, and\u00a0Davenport High School from the late 1930’s through the mid 1950’s. During World War II, she was a lieutenant\u00a0in the U.S. Navy\u00a0and worked at the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts in Washington, DC. Ms. Dunlap died on January 22nd, 1982 and is buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois.<\/p>\n

(posted by Cristina)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Polk’s Davenport (Iowa) City Directories, 1931-1957.<\/em><\/p>\n

National Cemetery Administration. U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca. 1775-2006<\/em> [database on-line]. Prove, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original Data: National Cemetery Administration. Nationwide Gravesite Locator<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ancestry.com. Iowa, World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954<\/em> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.\u00a0Original data: WWII Bonus Case Files. State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines, Iowa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In honor of National Library Week, we\u00a0searched the archives of the Davenport Public Library to find\u00a0this image of\u00a0the library booth at Davenport High School’s Career Day on May 6, 1949. Librarian Myrtle Dunlap discusses\u00a0career opportunities\u00a0at public, school, and special libraries … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[130,14,1336,1337,1547,371],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","category-local-history","tag-davenport-high-school","tag-davenport-public-library","tag-librarians","tag-libraries","tag-myrtle-dunlap","tag-national-library-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1Mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}