Posts by Caryl Matute

NYPL’s Esther K. Johnston: First Woman Chief of the Branch Libraries

by Caryl Matute, Deputy Director, Branch Libraries and Education
March 1, 2021

Johnston, a strong-willed mid-Westerner who had come to New York to make a difference, broke ground for women, fighting through hurdles like having to deliver her monthly reports to a committee that frequently met at a men’s club.

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