Lotsee Patterson

Lotsee Patterson (née Smith;[1] b. 1931) is a Comanche librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association.[2] She has written numerous articles on collection development, tribal libraries and Native American Librarianship.[3] Lotsee Patterson is Native American and became interested in collecting Native American objects because her mother was a collections director. Patterson is a University of Oklahoma Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Studies.

  1. ^ Jones, Plummer Alston Jr. (2004). Still struggling for equality: American public library services with minorities. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 9781429474184. OCLC 144569890.
  2. ^ "Indigenous Librarianship: A Global Perspective." Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine American Library Association. 2002 (retrieved 1 June 2010)
  3. ^ Beaudin, J. (1998). Interview. In McCook, Kathleen de la Peña. 1998. Women of color in librarianship: an oral history. [Chicago]: American Library Association., p. 104.