List of librarians
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List of people known for contributions to the library profession [edit]
A-E [edit]
- Ada Adler
- Mary Eileen Ahern
- Derek Austin
- Lester Asheim
- Henriette Avram (MARC standards developer)
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- Basil Atkinson
- John Davis Barnett (Canada)
- John J. Beckley (first librarian of Congress, also noted as politician)
- Sanford Berman
- Bob Berring (notable law librarian)
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- James H. Billington (13th librarian of Congress, also noted as historian)
- Jane, Lady Roberts
- 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)
- Wallace Breem (noted novelist and law librarian)
- Suzanne Briet
- Lee Pierce Butler
- Leon Carnovsky
- Andrea Crestadoro
- Charles Ammi Cutter
- Mayme Agnew Clayton
- Marjorie Cotton (first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia)
- John Cotton Dana (1856 - 1931)
- Lorcan Dempsey
- Melvil Dewey
- William S. Dix
- Margaret A. Edwards
- Linda Eastman
- Luther H. Evans (10th Librarian of Congress)
- Woody Evans
- Oliver Everett
F-M [edit]
- Johann Albert Fabricius (bibliographer)
- Mary Cutler Fairchild (pioneer library educator)
- Herman H. Fussler
- Elizabeth Futas (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)
- Kenneth MacLean Glazier, Sr. (Canadian librarian)
- Frederick R. Goff (incunabula scholar)
- Michael Gorman
- Jan Gruter (scholar)
- Camilla Gryski
- Peter Havard-Williams (librarian educator)
- Frances E. Henne
- Wolfgang Herrmann (librarian - member of Nazi’s Purification Committee [1])
- Caroline Hewins
- Susan H. Hildreth (California State librarian; [2])
- Ted Hines
- Judith Hoffberg (art librarian)
- Thomas James
- Thomas Jefferson (sold his library to the Library of Congress[1])
- Charles Coffin Jewett
- Carleton B. Joeckel
- E.J. Josey
- Muhammad Siddiq Khan
- Mohammad Khatami (former President of Iran, previously Head of National Library of Iran)
- Frederick Kilgour
- Judith Krug (forty year leader of ALA's OIF)
- Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (wife of Lenin)
- Philip Larkin
- Margaret Leiteritz (painter, who based her work of scientific items which she knew as a librarian)
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Roderick Samson Mabomba (Malawian librarian)
- Archibald MacLeish (9th Librarian of Congress and Pulitzer Prize poet)
- Patrick Magruder (2nd Librarian of Congress and politician)
- John Silva Meehan (4th Librarian of Congress)
- August Molinier (French historian)
- Eric Moon (editor of Library Journal)
- Anne Carroll Moore (pioneering children's librarian)
- 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 [edit]
- Gerhard Brandt Naeseth (Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library in Madison, Wisconsin)
- Makoto Nagao (the 19th Director of National Diet Library of Japan, and a computer scientist specializing in digital library)
- Gabriel Naudé
- Bonnie Nardi (information science)
- Howard Nixon
- Margaret Cross Norton
- Marcia Noyes
- Paul Otlet
- John Henry Pyle Pafford
- Antonio Panizzi (chief librarian of the British Museum library)
- Nancy Pearl (librarian and author)
- [Pura Belpré (librarian and author)
- Herbert Putnam (8th Librarian of Congress)
- S. R. Ranganathan (librarian and mathematician from India, best known for his five laws of library science and the development of the colon classification)
- Fremont Rider
- Sara Siebert
- Ralph R. Shaw (librarian)
- Jesse Shera
- Louis Shores
- Regina Smith (Jenkins Law Library)
- Frances Lander Spain (ALA President 1960-61; 1903-1999)
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford (6th Librarian of Congress)
- John G. Stephenson (5th Librarian of Congress)
- Suetonius (Roman historian and archivist)
- Peggy Sullivan
- Don R. Swanson
- Friedrich Sylburg (16th-century 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
- Douglas Waples
- George Watterston (3rd Librarian of Congress)
- Jessamyn West
- Louis Round Wilson
- Patrick Wilson
- Justin Winsor (Harvard University librarian)
- Lawrence C. Wroth, at the John Carter Brown Library
- Ella Gaines Yates
- Victor Yngve
- John Russell Young (7th Librarian of Congress, also notable as a journalist)
- Zenodotus (first superintendent of Library of Alexandria and noted scholar of the 3rd century BC)
One-time librarians noted for other accomplishments [edit]
- Mohammad Khatami (Iranian president and scholar)
- Reinaldo Arenas (Cuban author)
- Roland Barthes (French writer and philosopher)
- Ben Barkow
- 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 (author and poet)
- 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)
- Harinath De (linguist)
- John Dee (Renaissance magician)
- Hal Draper
- Marcel Duchamp
- Will Durant (historian)
- Eratosthenes
- Benjamin Franklin
- Stephen Gaselee
- Edmund Gosse
- Ed Greenwood (author)
- Francis Hayman (English artist)
- Elizabeth Heaps
- 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 (c. AD 350–370–March 415)
- Annette Curtis Klause (author of children's books)
- Stanley Kunitz (former United States Poet Laureate and editor of Wilson Library Bulletin, 1927-1943)
- Madeleine L'Engle (20th-century novelist)
- Lao Tsu
- Wilhelm Lexis (German economist)
- Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (mathematician and philosopher)
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (German playwright and poet)
- 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)
- 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)
- June Tabor (British singer)
- Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
- Edward J. Thomas (scholar of Buddhism)
- Anne Tyler (novelist)
- Angus Wilson (novelist)
References [edit]
- ^ Leonard Liggio, "The Life and Works of Thomas Jefferson", The Locke Luminary Vol. II, No. 1 (Summer 1999) Part 3, George Mason University, accessed 14 February 2012
