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Carma Leigh (Carma Alice Russell) was born on 15 November, 1904 in McLoud, Oklahoma Territory. Discover Carma Leigh's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 105 years old?

Popular As Carma Alice Russell
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Age 105 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 15 November 1904
Birthday 15 November
Birthplace McLoud, Oklahoma Territory
Date of death (2009-09-25) La Mesa, California
Died Place La Mesa, California
Nationality United States

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1973

On the occasion of her retirement, a resolution commending her work was read in the state senate. In 1973, she was named to the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Alumni Hall of Fame. In 1995, the California Library Association honored her as its longest-active member. She was honored in 1996 by the American Library Association as a "Legislative and Grass Roots Champion". She also held an honorary doctorate from the University of the Pacific.

1956

She was president of the California Library Association and the Pacific Northwest Library Association, and a member of the executive board of the American Library Association. Beyond the state level, Leigh lobbied and testified for the federal Library Services Act, passed by Congress in 1956, and its successor the Library Services and Construction Act, passed in 1964. In the early 1950s, she went to West Germany as part of the American Library Association's efforts to assist post-war rebuilding, and she was a member of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.

1945

Leigh was editor of the Washington State Library News Bulletin from 1945 to 1951, and had her own newsletter, From the California State Librarian, from 1951 to 1972. In 1966 she presented a paper, "The Role of the American Library Association in Federal Legislation for Libraries", at the Allerton Park Institute, conducted by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science.

1938

Carma Russell was married twice. She divorced her first husband, Ernest Zimmerman, in 1938. Her second husband was political scientist, former Bennington College president and dean of the Columbia University Library School, Robert Devore Leigh. They married in 1960; he died in 1961. She had a daughter, Rita Zimmerman Collier. Carma Leigh died in 2009, aged 104 years, in LaMesa, California. Her papers are archived in the California State Library.

1932

Leigh began her career as a junior assistant at the Berkeley Public Library. From 1932 to 1938, she was the city library director in Watsonville, California, where she knew John Steinbeck's sister Esther, and heard her apologize over some scenes in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath. She served as county library director in Orange County from 1938 to 1942, and in San Bernardino County from 1942 to 1945. In 1945, she left California to become Washington State Librarian. In 1951, governor Earl Warren appointed Leigh to the position of State Librarian of California, a position she held through three more governors' terms, until her retirement in 1972. During her term as State Librarian, the California Library Commission was established, and the Public Library Development Act passed into law in 1963, establishing state funding for a network of regional library systems. "Without strongly organized county, regional, or inter-county libraries", asked Leigh, "can there be a system of cooperative library services which will achieve many of the same advantages?" In 1970 she lobbied to preserve book and library postal rates, a particular concern for librarians in larger Western states. When Leigh started as State Librarian of California in 1951, there was little coordination between different library locations and library systems within the state of California. However, by the time she retired in 1972, twenty-one cooperative library systems had been successfully implemented.

1925

Carma Alice Russell was born near McLoud in Oklahoma Territory, the daughter of William Luther Russell and Ida Jenkins Russell, white homesteaders. She earned a bachelor's degree in history from the Oklahoma College for Women in 1925. She earned a master's degree in history and graduated from the School of Librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley in 1930.

1904

Carma Leigh (November 15, 1904—September 25, 2009), born Carma Russell, was an American librarian. She was the State Librarian of California from 1951 to 1972.