List of librarians
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[edit] List of people known for contributions to the library profession
[edit] A-E
- Ada Adler
- Mary Eileen Ahern (died 1938)
- Henriette Avram (MARC standards developer)
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- John J. Beckley (First Librarian of Congress, also noted as politician)
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- Sanford Berman
- James H. Billington (13th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
- Bob Berring (notable law librarian)
- Thomas Bodley (Founder of the Bodleian Library and English diplomat; 1545 -1613)
- Arna Bontemps (author, bibliographer, and Fisk University librarian)
- Daniel J. Boorstin (12th Librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
- Virginia Boucher (longtime leader in both the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations; author of library science books; mother of Jello Biafra)
- Wallace Breem (noted novelist and law librarian)
- Lee Pierce Butler
- Charles Ammi Cutter (1837 - 1903)
- Mayme Agnew Clayton (1924 - 2006)
- Marjorie Cotton (1913 - 2003; first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia)
- John Cotton Dana (1856 - 1931)
- Lorcan Dempsey
- Melvil Dewey
- Scott Douglas Note: Scott Douglas does not redirect to the person, editing required (chronicled his life as a librarian for McSweeney’s and, according to his agents website (http://www.harveyklinger.com/bio.cfm?agent=5), is currently writing a memoir on public librarianship for Carroll & Graf)
- Luther H. Evans (10th Librarian of Congress)
[edit] F-M
- Johann Albert Fabricius (bibliographer)
- Mary Cutler Fairchild (pioneer library educator, 1855 - 1921)
- Elizabeth Futas (1944 - 1995; Director of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies (GSLIS)
- Helen Thornton Geer ALA Headquarters Librarian, Author, Consultant, and Professor
- Johann Matthias Gesner (bibliographer)
- Jan Gruter (scholar)
- Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. (Canadian librarian)
- Michael Gorman
- Wolgang Herrmann (librarian - member of Nazi’s Purification Committee [1])
- Susan H. Hildreth (California State Librarian; [2])
- Ted Hines
- Judith Hoffberg (art librarian)
- Thomas James
- Charles Coffin Jewett
- E.J. Josey
- M S Khan - "Father of the Library and Information Science of Bangladesh" ([3])
- Mohammad Khatami former President of Iran, previously Head of National Library of Iran
- Frederick Kilgour
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (wife of Lenin)
- Philip Larkin (and famous UK poet)
- Margaret Leiteritz (painter, who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian)
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Archibald MacLeish (9th Librarian of Congress, and Pulitzer Prize poet)
- Kathleen de la Peña McCook (US library educator & author)
- Patrick Magruder (2nd Librarian of Congress & politician)
- John Silva Meehan (4th Librarian of Congress)
- August Molinier (French historian)
- Eric Moon (editor of Library Journal)
- L. Quincy Mumford (11th Librarian of Congress)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori (Italian librarian, archivist, & historian)
[edit] N-Z
- Gerhard Brandt Naeseth - (Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library. Madison, Wisconsin)
- Gabriel Naudé
- Bonnie Nardi (information science)
- Paul Otlet
- John Henry Pyle Pafford (1900 - 1996)
- Antonio Panizzi (Chief Librarian of the British Museum library) 19th c.
- Nancy Pearl (librarian & author)
- Herbert Putnam (8th Librarian of Congress)
- S. R. Ranganathan
- Fremont Rider
- Jesse Shera
- Regina Smith (Jenkins Law Library)
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford (6th Librarian of Congress; 1825 - 1908)
- John G. Stephenson (5th Librarian of Congress)
- Suetonius (Roman historian & archivist)
- Peggy Sullivan
- Friedrich Sylburg (16th c. German scholar)
- Gottfried van Swieten (Austrian Imperial librarian 1777-1803, introduced first card catalog)
- Louis Timothee (first American librarian)
- Arnulfo Trejo (US Hispano-American librarian)
- Eva Verona
- J. K. Vijayakumar
- George Watterston (3rd Librarian of Congress)
- Jessamyn West
- Patrick Wilson
- Justin Winsor (Harvard University librarian)
- Lawrence C. Wroth, at the John Carter Brown Library
- Ella Gaines Yates
- John Russell Young (7th Librarian of Congress, also notable as a journalist)
- Zenodotus - First superintendent of Library of Alexandria; noted scholar of the 3rd century B.C.
[edit] One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments
- Mohammad Khatami (Iranian president and scholar)
- Reinaldo Arenas (Cuban author)
- Georges Bataille (French writer)
- Ludwig Bechstein (German author)
- Hector Berlioz (French composer) (Librarian, Paris Conservatoire)
- Thomas Berger (US novelist)
- Arna Bontemps (French artist)
- Jorge Luis Borges (novelist)
- John Braine (British novelist)
- Laura Bush
- Callimachus (poet)
- Lewis Carroll (author)
- Giacomo Casanova
- Isaac Casaubon
- Cassiodorus
- Beverly Cleary (the novelist)
- Joanna Cole (children's book author & librarian)
- Ina Coolbrith (poet & librarian)
- Frank Coombs (US politician; also State Librarian of California 1898-1899)
- Gratia Countryman (Minneapolis librarian)
- Pierre François le Courayer (18th century theologian)
- John Dee (Renaissance magician)
- Hal Draper
- Marcel Duchamp
- Will Durant (historian)
- Eratosthenes
- Benjamin Franklin
- Edmund Gosse
- Ed Greenwood (author)
- Francis Hayman (English artist)
- Walter A. O'Brien (US politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A.")
- Edward Singleton Holden (US astronomer)
- David Hume (philosopher)
- Hypatia
- Annette Curtis Klause, author of children's books
- Stanley Kunitz (former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943)
- Madeleine L'Engle (20th century novelist)
- Lao Tsu
- Wilhelm Lexis (German economist)
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (philosopher)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German playwright & poet)
- Li Dazhao (Chinese revolutionary politician)
- Audre Lorde (20th century US poet & activist)
- Archibald MacLeish (author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944)
- Mao Zedong (Chinese revolutionary politician)
- Alan Noel Latimer Munby (English author)
- Andre Norton (Science-fiction author)
- Christopher Okigbo (Nigerian poet)
- Major Owens (U.S. House of Representatives/D-NY)
- Charles V. Park (Librarian at CMU)
- Coventry Patmore (19th century UK poet)
- Kit Pearson (Canadian writer; winner of the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 1997)
- Benjamin Peirce (logician)
- Per Petterson (Norwegian author)
- Charles Pickering (naturalist)
- Marcel Proust (French author)
- Philip Pullman (fantasy novelist)
- Sima Qian (Chinese historian)
- Greg Dean Schmitz (Online film journalist)
- Lynne Stewart (American lawyer)
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
- Anne Tyler (novelist)
- Angus Wilson (novelist)
