美国儿童图书馆的创始人、图书馆学专业的教育家和作家埃菲·路易丝·鲍尔(Powcr,Effie Louise)1873年2月12日生于美国宾夕法尼亚州的康尼奥特维尔附近。13岁时,她家迁至克利夫兰,她毕业于那儿的中央中学。鲍尔的的邻居威廉·霍华德·布雷特请她参加克利夫兰公共图书馆的入馆考试,这样,鲍尔于1895年秋季开始了她的图书馆生涯。鲍尔到母校当为期约三个月的学校图书馆员后,回到克利夫兰公共图书馆,在布雷特的指导下,她负责管理一个小阅览室,并于1898年把它改建为儿童阅览室,鲍尔便成了克利夫兰图书馆系统中第一位儿童图书馆员。她的首要贡献之一是改变对适合于儿童的非小说书籍的管 Powcr Effie Louise, founder of the American Children’s Library and a library science educator and author, was born on February 12, 1873 near Connexiot, Pennsylvania. When she was 13, her family moved to Cleveland, where she graduated from the Central High School. Powell’s neighbor, William Howard Brett, asked her to take a seat at the Cleveland Public Library, where Bauer began her library career in the fall of 1895. Bauer went to his alma mater as a school librarian for about three months and returned to the Cleveland Public Library where, under Brett’s direction, she managed a small reading room and converted it into a children’s reading room in 1898 Bauer became the first child librarian in the Cleveland Library System. One of her primary contributions is changing the tube for non-fiction books suitable for children