About Kenneth Toombs
Lived 1928 – 2008 (aged 79–80). Kenneth Toombs was a librarian.
Kenneth Eldridge Toombs (25 August 1928 – 4 March 2008), AKA Kenneth Toombs and Kenneth E. Toombs, was 20th-century American best known as director of the libraries of the University of South Carolina (1967-1988).
Career Toombs helped establish the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library and Law Library and co-founded the Southeastern Library Network. and who interviewed Grace Lumpkin for the archive. He also helped in establishing rights for southern chapters of the American Library Association.
Awards Rothrock Award, Southeastern Library Association (contribution to Solinet System)
Legacy Kenneth E. Toombs Fellowship Fund in Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
Works "Interview with Grace Lumpkin" (1971) "Large Academic Libraries" (1977)
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