Fremont Rider

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Fremont Rider (May 25, 1885 - October 26, 1962), born in Trenton, New Jersey, was a noted editor, publisher, writer, genealogist, librarian and inventor. In the early 1900s he wrote in several genres including plays, poetry, short stories, and non-fiction. In the 1920s he was editor for Library Journal and Publishers Weekly and edited numerous travel guides. In the 1940s and 1950s, Rider was director of the Olin Library at Wesleyan University and founded the Godfrey Memorial Library. During this time he wrote his seminal book, The scholar and the future of the research library, which detailed the increasing shortage of space in research libraries and described how his invention of the microcard, an opaque microform, would help to solve this problem. He is also credited with the invention of book trucks and stack shelving.

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