Mary Emogene Hazeltine was born in
Jamestown,
New York to Abner Hazeltine and Olivia Brown Hazeltine. She graduated from
Wellesley College, Massachusetts with her bachelor's degree in 1891 and served as the librarian for the
James Prendergast Library in Jamestown, New York from 1893 to 1906. She was president of the
New York Library Association in 1902 and was an active leader of the
Wisconsin Library Association and the
American Library Association. Hazeltine retired from the Library School at Madison in 1938 and returned to her family home in Jamestown, New York. In 1951 she was one of 40 of the United States' most significant library leaders selected by the
Library Journal for inclusion in a "
Library Hall of Fame". Hazeltine was inducted into the Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame in 2008. ==Publications==