Dr. Matthew Griffis, Assistant Professor for the School of Library and Information Science at Southern Miss, appeared as a featured speaker at Emporia State University’s National Library Week celebrations on April 14th. Dr. Griffis’s paper, entitled “Town and Gown: Celebrating the Carnegie Libraries of Emporia, Kansas”, explored the history of the town’s two Carnegie libraries: the Anderson Memorial Library of the former College of Emporia, and the Emporia Public Carnegie Library, which served Emporia residents for almost 70 years.

Photograph by Jinxuan Ma, Assistant Professor at ESU