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Mary Foy Mary Emily Foy (July 13, 1862 - February 21, 1962) was the first woman head librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, appointed to the job in 1880 at the age of 18. She had graduated the year before from Los Angeles High School.〔http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/LAHighSchool.htm〕 She served for only four years but left a legacy for Los Angeles librarians to remember.〔http://thepaperink.com/1994/94tt0211.htm〕 She died February 21, 1962, at the age of 99.〔http://thepaperink.com/1994/94tt0128.htm〕 ==Predecessors==
Women played a subsidiary role in Los Angeles Public Library affairs for many years. On the library's founding in 1872, women were excluded from even using it. ::However, this situation quickly changed. Within its first six months of operation, the board discussed allowing “ladys” limited membership, letting them use their male relatives’ membership cards to gain access to the library’s collections.13In 1876 the library added a “Ladies Room” to its complex. Although the new room did not contain books, it did house a number of popular magazines as well as comfortable sofas and chairs for local clubwomen to use.〔Debra Gold Hansen, Karen F. Gracy, and Sheri D. Irvin, "At the Pleasure of the Board: Women Librarians and the Los Angeles Public Library, 1880–1905", p. 314〕 John C. Littlefield, the editor of the Los Angeles ''Weekly Express,'' was appointed the city’s first librarian in 1872. He was succeeded in 1879 by an untrained partisan appointee, Patrick Connolly, who, it was suggested, was an alcoholic who missed more than his share of days at work and was discharged by the library board, which then vowed to name a "lady librarian."
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