Tommie Dora Barker (Nov. 15, 1888 – Feb. 6, 1978) was an American librarian and founding dean of Emory Library School in Atlanta, Georgia.

She attended Atlanta Girls' High School before pursuing higher education at Agnes Scott College.

[2] During these years, the library faced budget cuts, which caused a series of problems from overworked staff to lack of support from local government, and ultimately restricted expansion.

[3] A recommendation to the Board of Education for Librarianship (BEL) of the American Library Association (ALA), submitted by C.C.

[1][6] Barker became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate by Emory in 1930 for her work in securing funding for the Carnegie Library School.

She requested the Carnegie Corporation and Rosenwald Fund to each donate $50,000 ($730,137.14 comparatively, after inflation) a year as it moved into Emory and became a professional library.