Lillian Lewis Batchelor

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'''Lillian Lewis Batchelor''' (November 17,1907 - June 28,1977) was an American [[librarian]], known for her advocacy for the creation and proper staffing of elementary school libraries.<ref name="Miller"></ref> She was president of the [[American Association of School Librarians]] and served as a councilor to the American Library Association.<ref name="Woolls"></ref>

Batchelor had worked in libraries since high school, and was a public and school librarian in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before becoming the supervisor of high school libraries for the Philadelphia School District's Board of Education.<ref name="Miller" /> She served in this position from 1948 through 1966 when she became the Assistant Director of Libraries for the district.<ref name="Miller" /> She was also an adjunct professor at [[Drexel University|Drexel University's]] School of Library Science.<ref name="Miller" /> She was formative in creating the [[American Library Association|American Library Association's]] ''Standards for School Library Programs'' in 1960.<ref name="Miller" />

Batchelor is also credited with creating 166 elementary school libraries within Philadelphia throughout the mid 1960's.<ref name="Miller" /> These libraries were created, but were difficult to staff with trained librarians; Batchelor, through her work with Drexel University, created an internship program to educate school librarians, a position partially funded by the Philadelphia School District's Board of Education.<ref name="Miller" />

Batchelor wanted librarians to look at books as "the gunpowder of the mind" to encourage and excite young people.<ref name="Miller" /> She was an early advocate of instructional materials centers, which combined traditional libraries with ways to access multimedia materials useful for teaching.<ref name="Baas"></ref> She was particularly interested in students who were motivated and/or gifted and edited and assembled a collection of papers entitled ''Reading Guidance for the Gifted'' in 1962. Designed to be useful to the non-specialist, this collection combined theory and practice to encourage schools to have enrichment activities for their gifted pupils.<ref name="Gunn Batchelor 1962 p=365"></ref>

== Early Life and education ==
Batchelor was born in [[Camden, New Jersey]] to parents Albert Kirk and Estella May Lewis. <ref name="Miller" /> Her husband was Howard I. Batchelor.<ref name="Miller" /> She earned both a bachelor of science degree from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] and a library science degree from the [[Drexel University|Drexel Institute of Technology]] in 1930.<ref name="Miller" /> She earned her masters of arts degree from [[Columbia University]] in 1946 and her doctorate in 1952 from the same university.<ref name="Miller" />

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