Later in her career, she would become the first African-American to head a public library in New York City. There, Regina flourished in her new social circles as Regina and her flatmates hosted salons for influential writers and thinkers from the African-American community in the city. Some notable people include Zora Neal Hurston, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois and as a result, the library at 135th Street flourished as well. The library not only hosted workspace for the community but also boosted “its collection of books and artifacts relating to the study of black culture, a collection that would provide a lasting connection between a people and their history” (Anderson, …show more content…
She later applied and was hired for the Office of Information Systems Specialist. She was tasked to “analyze cataloging data for computer processing which eventually resulted in the design of the MARC format” (Pattie, 1998). MARC stands for Machine Readable Cataloging Format and is digital format for cataloging records using specific sets of tags, indicators, and subfields. While there has been 21 different updates to the MARC Format, Avram has been there all the way to ensure it’s complex success. She worked with the ALA to see that it was not only a national standard, but also an international standard so that libraries around the globe would be able to communicate on a formatting level. Regardless of her degrees earned, Avram achieved becoming a “towering figure in library automation and bibliographic control” (Rather & Wiggins,