[Libs-Or] Fwd: [chapcoun] Charleston Library renamed for Cynthia Graham Hurd

[Suzanne Sager]

FYI,

Suzanne L. Sager

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From: Don Wood <dwood at ala.org>
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:36 AM
Subject: [chapcoun] Charleston Library renamed for Cynthia Graham Hurd
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 Charleston Library renamed for Cynthia Graham Hurd
    by Kirsten Reach <http://www.mhpbooks.com/author/kirsten-reach/>

[image: cynthiahurdcloseup]


 Yesterday the *Charleston City Council* voted to rename
<https://twitter.com/postandcourier/status/614105273515548672> the* St.
Andrews Library* for librarian *Cynthia Hurd*. Hurd was the longest-serving
part-time librarian in the county.


 “People will look up and see her name and remember her every day,” her
husband *Arthur Stephen Hurd* said
<http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20150625/PC16/150629591> to *Post
and Courier*. As we wrote last week
<http://www.mhpbooks.com/cynthia-hurd-one-of-the-charleston-victims-dedicated-her-life-as-a-librarian-to-helping-people-get-educated/>,
Hurd was one of nine people lost in *Mother AME Emanuel Church*.

She was the regional manager at St. Andrews, and had worked as a librarian
for 31 years. The library system closed all 16 locations to honor her.


 “She was kind and loving. She would bend over backwards to help you. And
she was very patient,” said
<http://www.mywebtimes.com/news/local/ottawa-native-worked-with-charleston-shooting-victim/article_292639ae-da0d-5b03-ab20-412a3912cd29.html>
Hurd’s fellow librarian *Alyce Houston*.


 In addition to the change in the name of the library, the board of
trustees at the *College of Charleston*, Hurd’s alma mater, voted to change
the name of its Colonial Scholarship to the *Cynthia Graham Hurd Memorial
Scholarship*. Her family is also starting
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article25395178.html> the *Cynthia
Graham Hurd Fund* for Reading and Literacy as a part of * Freedom School
Partners <http://freedomschoolpartners.org/>*.


 “The fund will ensure that children have access to books that strengthen
their literacy skills and access to the support of a community that
believes in them, which are values Cynthia Hurd held closely to her heart,”
her brother, former North Carolina Senator *Malcolm Graham*, told
<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article25395178.html> the
*Charlotte
Observer*.



-- 
Suzanne L. Sager
Oregon ALA Representative
Portland State University Library
PO Box 1151
Portland, OR  97207-1151

Phone: 503-725-8169
Fax: 503-725-5799

email: sagers at pdx.edu
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