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January 17, 2006: Tribute to a Charlotte, North Carolina Librarian
"In the years before libraries were equipped with computers, there was James Edward. If there were enough others like him, those unsmiling computers might not be needed today."
"James Edward Dial, who had a lifelong love affair with books, died Dec. 27 in his 71st year. He had worked 26 of those years at Charlotte libraries."
"He was hired in the mid-1940s by Allegra Westbrook, whose title was director of public library services to Negroes. That library, opened in 1905, stood at Second and Brevard streets, Allegra said."
