Nora Beust
Nora Ernestine Beust (1888 – July 3, 1973) was an American librarian, educator, and writer. She taught library science courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and worked in the United States Office of Education, as a specialist in school libraries and children's literature. Early life and education Nora Beust was born in New Albany, Indiana, the daughter of Max Beust and Dora Segelke Beust. Her father operated a drugstore in New Albany. She earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1923, and a graduate degree in library science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). At UNC she was a co-founder and first president of the North Carolina chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma. Career Beust was a college reference librarian in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the 1920s, served on the executive committee of the Wisconsin Library Association, and was active in a sewing club in La Crosse. After graduate school, she stayed in North Carolina and taught at UNC from 1927 to 1937. She was elected president of the North Carolina Library Association in 1935. Beust moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937, when she was appointed to work at the