17 Facts About Nina Browne

Nina Eliza Browne was an American librarian and archivist.

Nina Browne invented a charging system, known as the Browne Issue System, for libraries by 1895.

Nina Browne was a member, secretary, and publishing board member of the American Library Association, and was a member of the Massachusetts Library Association.

Nina Eliza Browne or Nina Elizabeth, was born in Erving, Massachusetts on October 6,1860.

Nina Browne's parents were Charles Theodore Browne and Nancy S Chapman Browne.

Nina Browne had a brief career as a teacher, between her graduation from Smith and her studies at Columbia.

Nina Browne was an assistant librarian at Columbia University's Library in 1888 to 1889.

Nina Browne worked at the Library Bureau in Boston until 1896.

Nina Browne was a speaker in late March 1901 at the Bi-State Meeting of the Pennsylvania Library Club and the New Jersey Library Association.

Nina Browne created a Catalog of Officers, Graduates, and Nongraduates of Smith College.

Nina Browne was an assistant librarian at Harvard University, beginning in 1911, and at the Boston Athenaeum.

Nina Browne had been active in the Alumna Association, and material from her time as a student formed the basis of the early collection.

Nina Browne became partially blind, which set her retirement in motion in 1937.

Nina Browne remained a strong advocate for the archive, asserting its importance and the need for a physical space for the collection.

Nina Browne had been living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts at the Trinity Church Home, when she died in 1954, at the age of 94.

Nina Browne was a member of the Massachusetts Library Club, now the Massachusetts Library Association, and encouraged other librarians to perform outreach to the communities to determine their interests.

Nina Browne was assistant secretary and then secretary of the American Library Association for many years, beginning in 1889, and was on its publishing board, for a term that was to expire in 1914.