Graham, Patterson Toby 1969-

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GRAHAM, Patterson Toby 1969-

PERSONAL: Born July 9, 1969, in Tuscaloosa, AL; son of Patterson Tony (a university professor) and Marie (an elementary schoolteacher; maiden name, Harrington) Graham; married Suzanne Rockey (a librarian), June 3, 2000. Education: James Madison University, B.S., 1991; University of Alabama, M.A., 1993, M.L.S., 1994, Ph.D., 1998.

ADDRESSES: Home—1030 Chris Ct., Athens, GA 30606. Office—Digital Library of Georgia, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1641. E-mail—tgraham@uga.edu.

CAREER: University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, associate professor and head of special collections, 1999–2003; University of Georgia, Athens, director of Digital Library of Georgia, 2003–.

AWARDS, HONORS: Alabama Author Award for nonfiction, Alabama Library Association, 2004.

WRITINGS:

A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 2002.

Contributor to periodicals, including Library Quarterly, Journal of the Association for History and Computing, and American Archivist.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Southern History, November, 2003, Robert G. Sherer, review of A Right to Read: Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama's Public Libraries, 1900–1965, p. 956.

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