page_title: Edith Allen Phelps
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Edith Allen Phelps / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Carnegie Library, part of the Oklahoma Territorial Museum (Photo by R. L. Robinette, taken on August 23, 2006)
context_page_description: Edith Allen Phelps was twice president of the Oklahoma Library Association, the first professional in the Library Science field in the Oklahoma City system.
context_section_description: Phelps was the librarian at Paso Robles Public Library. For four years she was connected with the Library of the University of Missouri; for 12 years (from 1904 to 1916) she was the librarian at the Carnegie Library in Guthrie, Oklahoma and here taught Library Science course for the University of Oklahoma. For two years she was the librarian at Tyler, Texas, and in 1919 she was the Public Library Cataloguer in Kansas City Public Library. 
  Phelps was twice president of the Oklahoma Library Association. In 1905 she started at Carnegie Library as Head Librarian, the first professional in the Library Science field in the Oklahoma City system. Among many innovations, she is recognized for having introduced the Dewey classification.
  She was a charter member of the Special Libraries Association. 
  She was a member of Paso Robles Woman's Club, American Library Association, California Library Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, P.E.O. Sisterhood, Colonial Dames of America.
caption: Carnegie Library (Guthrie, Oklahoma)
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