Nancy Jane Day was born May 1, 1905 in Pendleton, SC. She
graduated with a B.A. in History from Greenville Women's College
(Furman University) in 1925. She went on to receive her B.S. from
Columbia University in Library Science in 1933 and her M.A. from the
University of Michigan in Library Science in 1943. She was a teacher
for North Carolina public schools, a school librarian, a public
librarian, an academic librarian at Florida State University and Furman
University and was a college instructor of Library Science for Winthrop
College and Emory University. She was a supervisor of library services
for the South Carolina Department of Education from 1946-1970. She also
was a Fulbright lecturer at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand from
1953-1954. She has been involved in several organizations such as the
Council of the ALA, Board of Education for Librarianship, and SC
Council for the Common Good. She served as both Vice President and
President for AASL, SELA, and SCLA. She was part of the up-grade in the
training of school librarians and establishing the graduate program in
Library Science at the University of South Carolina. Ms. Day died while
living at the Martha Franks Home in Laurens, SC, Jan. 30, 1995.