List of librarians

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This is a list of notable librarians and people who have advanced libraries and librarianship. Also included are people primarily notable for other endeavors, such as politicians and writers, who have also worked as librarians.

List of people known for contributions to the library profession[]

A-E[]

Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and librarian, reads a book to children in a school library in Texas.

F-M[]

  • Johann Albert Fabricius – bibliographer
  • Mary Cutler Fairchild – pioneer library educator
  • Adele M. Fasick – historical fiction writer, library science scholar, professor.
  • David Ferriero – former M.I.T librarian and current Archivist of the United States
  • Anette Fischer (1946–1992) – librarian and human rights activist
  • Herman H. Fussler
  • Elizabeth Futas – director of the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies
  • Mary Virginia Gaver
  • Helen Thornton Geer – ALA Headquarters librarian, author, consultant, and professor
  • Johann Matthias Gesner – bibliographer
  • Kenneth MacLean Glazier Sr. – Canadian librarian
  • Eliza Atkins Gleason – first African American to receive doctorate of Library Science
  • Frederick R. Goff – incunabula scholar
  • Michael Gorman
  • Jan Gruter – scholar
  • Camilla Gryski
  • Helen E. Haines
  • Spencer Hall – librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London
  • Adelaide Hasse
  • Peter Havard-Williams – librarian educator
  • Carla Hayden – public librarian, former ALA President, 14th Librarian of Congress
  • Frances E. Henne
  • Wolfgang Herrmann – librarian; member of Nazi Purification Committee
  • Caroline Hewins
  • John Howard Hickcox Sr.
  • Ted Hines
  • Cecil Hobbs – American scholar of Southeast Asian history, head of the Southern Asia Section of the Orientalia (now Asian) Division of the Library of Congress, a major contributor to scholarship on Asia and the development of South East Asian coverage in American library collections[2]
  • Judith Hoffberg – art librarian
  • Zoia Horn – American librarian jailed for refusing to divulge information that violated her belief in intellectual freedom
  • Jean Blackwell Hutson – chief of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Thomas James
  • Anne Jarvis
  • Thomas Jefferson – sold his library to the Library of Congress[3]
  • Charles Coffin Jewett
  • Carleton B. Joeckel
  • Virginia Lacy Jones – major figure in the integration of public and academic libraries
  • E.J. Josey
  • Gene Joseph - founding librarian of the Xwi7xwa Library at the University of British Columbia and the first librarian of First Nations descent in British Columbia, Canada
  • Muhammad Siddiq Khan
  • Mohammad Khatami – former President of Iran; previously Head of National Library of Iran
  • Frederick Kilgour
  • Judith Krug – forty-year leader of the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom
  • Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya – wife of Lenin
  • Philip Larkin
  • Louise Payson Latimer
  • Margaret Leiteritz – painter who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian
  • Anne Grodzins Lipow – founder of Library Solutions Institute and Press
  • Audre Lorde – 20th-century US poet and activist
  • Eleanor Young Love - African-American librarian from Kentucky
  • Seymour Lubetzky
  • Roderick Samson Mabomba – Malawian librarian
  • Archibald MacLeish – 9th Librarian of Congress; Pulitzer Prize poet
  • Patrick Magruder – 2nd Librarian of Congress; politician
  • Margaret Mann – library educator, particularly cataloging; founding faculty member at University of Michigan library science program (1926)
  • Allie Beth Martin
  • Harry S. Martin – former Head Librarian, Harvard Law Library
  • Kathleen de la Peña McCook – library scholar, public librarian, free speech advocate, and author
  • John Silva Meehan – 4th Librarian of Congress
  • Florence Milnes – first BBC librarian
  • August Molinier – French historian
  • Eric Moon – editor of Library Journal
  • Anne Carroll Moore – pioneering children's librarian
  • Everett T. Moore – freedom of information
  • Elizabeth Homer Morton – important contributions to development of Canadian libraries[4]
  • Isadore Gilbert Mudge – edited Guide to Resource Works
  • L. Quincy Mumford – 11th Librarian of Congress
  • Ludovico Antonio Muratori – Italian librarian, archivist and historian

N-Z[]

  • Gerhard Brandt Naeseth – Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin
  • Makoto Nagao – 19th Director of National Diet Library of Japan; computer scientist specializing in digital library
  • Bonnie Nardi – information scientist
  • Gabriel Naudé
  • Howard Nixon
  • Margaret Cross Norton
  • Ekei Essien Oku - first Nigerian women chief librarian
  • Paul Otlet
  • John Henry Pyle Pafford
  • Antonio Panizzi – chief librarian of the British Museum library
  • Ingrid Parent – librarian at the University of British Columbia
  • Charles V. Park – librarian at Central Michigan University
  • Lotsee Patterson - librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association
  • Nancy Pearl – librarian and author
  • Mary Wright Plummer
  • Effie Louise Power
  • Herbert Putnam – 8th Librarian of Congress
  • S.R. Ranganathan – librarian and mathematician from India, known for his five laws of library science and the development of the colon classification
  • Fremont Rider
  • Jane, Lady Roberts
  • Charlemae Hill Rollins
  • Loriene Roy - the first Native American president of the American Library Association
  • Frances Clarke Sayers
  • Louis A. Schultheiss
  • Patricia G. Schuman
  • Marvin H. Scilken
  • Margaret Scoggin – young adult librarian
  • Marianne Scott
  • Ralph R. Shaw
  • Spencer Shaw (1916–2010) – American children's librarian and educator
  • Jesse Shera
  • Louis Shores
  • Regina Smith – librarian at Jenkins Law Library, a membership library in Philadelphia
  • Frances Lander Spain (1903-1999) – American Library Association President 1960-61
  • Ainsworth Rand Spofford – 6th Librarian of Congress
  • John G. Stephenson – 5th Librarian of Congress
  • Mari Strachan – 21st-century Welsh novelist in English
  • Suetonius – Roman historian and archivist
  • Peggy Sullivan
  • Don R. Swanson
  • Friedrich Sylburg – 16th-century German scholar
  • John Szabo – City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library and National Medal for Museum and Library Service recipient
  • Henry Richard Tedder – librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London
  • Louis Timothee – first American librarian
  • Arnulfo Trejo – U.S. Hispanic-American librarian
  • Gottfried van Swieten – Austrian Imperial librarian 1777-1803; introduced first card catalog
  • Eva Verona
  • Brian Campbell Vickery
  • Douglas Waples
  • George Watterston – 3rd Librarian of Congress
  • Jessamyn West
  • Edwina Whitney - first librarian at the University of Connecticut
  • John Wilkin – digital library management researcher
  • Ian E. Wilson
  • Louis Round Wilson
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Marianne Winder – librarian at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
  • Justin Winsor – Harvard University librarian
  • Mary Elizabeth Wood – promoted Western librarianship practices and programs in China
  • Lawrence C. Wroth – librarian at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
  • Ella Gaines Yates
  • Victor Yngve
  • John Russell Young – 7th Librarian of Congress; journalist
  • Zenodotus – first superintendent of Library of Alexandria; scholar of the 3rd century BC
  • Shen Zurong – father of library science in China

One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments[]

  • Reinaldo Arenas – Cuban author
  • Ben Barkow
  • Roland Barthes – French writer and philosopher
  • Georges Bataille – French writer
  • Ludwig Bechstein – German author
  • Thomas Berger – American novelist
  • Hector Berlioz – French composer; librarian, Paris Conservatoire
  • Arna Bontemps – French artist
  • Jorge Luis Borges – author and poet
  • John Braine – British novelist
  • Callimachus – poet
  • Roch Carrier – novelist
  • Lewis Carroll – author
  • Giacomo Casanova
  • Isaac Casaubon
  • Cassiodorus
  • Beverly Cleary – novelist
  • Joanna Cole – children's book author and librarian
  • Ina Coolbrith – poet and librarian
  • Frank Coombs – U.S. politician; State Librarian of California, 1898-1899
  • Gratia Countryman – Minneapolis librarian
  • Pierre François le Courayer – 18th-century theologian
  • Evelyn Crowell - librarian, author, speaker, activist, and community organizer
  • Harinath De – linguist
  • John Dee – Renaissance magician
  • A. Brian Deer - librarian from Kahnawake who developed a library classification system that gave rise to the Brian Deer Classification System
  • Hal Draper
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Will Durant – historian
  • Eratosthenes
  • Frank Ferko – composer
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Stephen Gaselee – diplomat
  • Edmund Gosse
  • Ed Greenwood – author
  • Francis Hayman – English artist
  • Elizabeth Heaps
  • Edward Singleton Holden – U.S. astronomer
  • J. Edgar Hoover – first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • David Hume – philosopher
  • Hypatia (c. 350–370 – March 415)
  • Mohammad Khatami – Iranian president and scholar
  • Annette Curtis Klause – author of children's books
  • Stanley Kunitz – former United States Poet Laureate; editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943
  • Lao Tsu
  • Madeleine L'Engle – 20th-century novelist
  • Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz – mathematician and philosopher
  • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing – German playwright and poet
  • Wilhelm Lexis – German economist
  • Li Dazhao – Chinese revolutionary politician
  • Audre Lorde – 20th-century US poet and activist
  • Archibald MacLeish – author; Librarian of Congress, 1939-1944
  • Mao Zedong – Chinese revolutionary politician
  • Alan Noel Latimer Munby – English author
  • Vaunda Micheaux Nelson – author and librarian
  • Andre Norton – science-fiction author
  • Walter A. O'Brien – U.S. politician; commissioned original version of the song "Charlie on the M.T.A."
  • Christopher Okigbo – Nigerian poet
  • Major Owens – U.S. House of Representatives (D-NY)
  • Andrew K. Pace – author
  • Coventry Patmore – 19th-century UK poet
  • Kit Pearson – Canadian writer; winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for English language children's literature
  • Benjamin Peirce – logician
  • Per Petterson – Norwegian author
  • Charles Pickering
  • Marcel Proust – French author
  • Philip Pullman – fantasy novelist
  • Ken Roberts author
  • Greg Dean Schmitz – online film journalist
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves – granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Sima Qian – Chinese historian
  • Lynne Stewart – American lawyer
  • June Tabor – British singer
  • Elizabeth Taylor
  • Edward J. Thomas – scholar of Buddhism
  • Anne Tyler – novelist
  • Angus Wilson – novelist

Librarians noted as spouses of national leaders[]

  • Laura Bush – served as First Lady of the United States[5]
  • Ingrid Carlsson – wife of Ingvar Carlsson
  • Miriam Eshkol

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Audi, Tamara (20 November 1999). "Marjorie Bradfield: Put black history into library". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  2. ^ Tsuneishi, Warren (May 1992). "Obituary: Cecil Hobbs (1907-1991)". Journal of Asian Studies. 51 (2): 472–473. doi:10.1017/s0021911800041607.
  3. ^ Leonard Liggio, "The Life and Works of Thomas Jefferson" Archived 2012-05-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Locke Luminary Vol. II, No. 1 (Summer 1999) Part 3, George Mason University, accessed 14 February 2012
  4. ^ World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. American Library Association. 1993. pp. 586-87. ISBN 0838906095.
  5. ^ "biography.com".
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