{"id":760,"date":"2014-01-13T09:42:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=760"},"modified":"2014-01-17T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T15:36:38","slug":"bell-robert-eugene-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"BELL, ROBERT EUGENE, 1926-1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Librarian. Born&#8211; October 13, 1926, Tarrant City. Parents&#8211;\u00a0Archer H. and Jessie Irene Adkins\u00a0Bell. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1950; Harvard University, M.A. in English, 1951; Louisiana State University, M.S. in Librarianship, 1967; University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 1974; also attended Columbia University and the University of Texas. Worked at the Birmingham Public Library, 1949-1950; Mobile Public Library, 1951-1955 and 1963-1965; Fort Worth Public Library, 1955-1960; New Orleans Public Library, 1962-1963 and 1965-1966. Executive director of the Book Club of California, 1960-1962; assistant professor of librarianship, University of South Carolina, 1971-1973; reference librarian at City College of San Francisco, 1974-1976; lecturer in the School of Library and Information Service at the University of California at Berkeley, 1974-1976; head of humanities and social science reference at the University of California at Davis after 1976. Died November 19, 1999.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Library and Information Science, 1982.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Bibliography of Mobile, Alabama. University, Ala.; University of Alabama, 1956.<\/p>\n<p>The Butterfly Tree, a Novel. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1959.<\/p>\n<p>A Dictionary of Classical Mythology; Symbols, Attributes and Association in Classical Myth. Santa Barbara, Calif.; ABC-Clio, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Place Names in Classical Mythology:\u00a0 Greece.\u00a0 Santa Barbara, CA:\u00a0 ABC-CLIO,1989.<\/p>\n<p>Women of Classical Mythology; a Biographical Guide. Santa Barbara, Calif.; ABC-CLIO, 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meet me at the Butterfly Tree:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Fairhope Memoir.\u00a0 Fairhope: Over the Transom Press, 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Librarian. Born&#8211; October 13, 1926, Tarrant City. Parents&#8211;\u00a0Archer H. and Jessie Irene Adkins\u00a0Bell. Education&#8211; Birmingham Southern College, B.A., 1950; Harvard University, M.A. in English, 1951; Louisiana State University, M.S. in Librarianship, 1967; University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D., 1974; also attended Columbia University and the University of Texas. Worked at the Birmingham Public Library, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}