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Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild was the daughter of Artcmus Hubbard Cutler and Lydia Wakefield, and the wife of Edwin Milton Fairchild, whom she married July 1, 1897, at Troy, New York. She as born in Dalton, Massachusetts, United States.
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Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild was the daughter of Artcmus Hubbard Cutler and Lydia Wakefield, and the wife of Edwin Milton Fairchild, whom she married July 1, 1897, at Troy, New York. She as born in Dalton, Massachusetts, United States.
She seems to have sought the best education then offered to women. In 1875 she was graduated from Mount Holyoke Seminary, where she also taught until 1878.
In 1884 she began work in the Columbia College Library at the moment that plans were being developed for the first library school. The school opened January 5, 1887, and Miss Cutler, her interest challenged and her ambition stirred by the new project, was made instructor in cataloguing. In 1889, when the school was moved to the New York State Library in Albany she became its vice-director, and was not only its chief executive but its guiding spirit. For sixteen years she was truly a pioneer. In 1889 she was induced to take over the librarianship for the blind in the New York State Library and to that work she applied herself with her usual thoroughness. Her active and useful career was cut short in 1905 by an illness from which she never fully recovered. This prevented the perfection of her work, and the publication of the substantial results of it. In her retirement she lectured occasionally and indeed for four months in 1909-10 was in charge of the library school of Drexel Institute, but her work was done. She was chairman of the committee in charge of the library exhibit at the Columbian Exposition which assembled a model library of five thousand volumes with a model printed catalogue.
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From this parent school she sent out disciples trained in her own habits of accuracy, thoroughness, and broad thinking, who, filled with her ideals, carried into libraries and library schools the purposes and methods of the Albany school. In this way she did much to set the standards of a new calling, for the best years of her life were given to the new public-library movement and to training carefully chosen recruits for its service. The philosophy which her mind constantly sought for this social adjunct found expression in her “Function of the Library” (Public Libraries, November 1901). Her interest was particularly enlisted in book selection and evaluation, and in the origins, history, and development of American libraries (Library Journal, February 1908). These subjects she deemed fundamental, and to them she gave her best thought and work, developing a substance and a methodology which made them a permanent part of the equipment of the well- trained librarian.
She was chairman of the committee in charge of the library exhibit at the Columbian Exposition which assembled a model library of five thousand volumes with a model printed catalogue. Twice a vicepresident of the American Library Association, a member of its council 1892-98 and 1909-14, its delegate to the British International Conference in 1903, she abundantly fulfilled her broader professional obligations.
