List of librarians
List of people known for contributions to the library profession
A-E
Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States and librarian read a book to children in school library in Texas
- Ada Adler
- Mary Eileen Ahern
- Lester Asheim
- Sarah B. Askew - pioneered the establishment of county libraries in the United States
- Basil Atkinson
- Derek Austin
- Henriette Avram - MARC standards developer
- Antoine Alexandre Barbier
- John Davis Barnett - Canada
- John J. Beckley - first librarian of Congress; a politician
- Pura Belpré - librarian and author
- Sanford Berman
- Bob Berring - law librarian
- John Carlo Bertot - library educator, researcher, editor of The Library Quarterly
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius
- James H. Billington - 13th librarian of Congress; historian
- Thomas Bodley - founder of the Bodleian Library; English diplomat; 1545 -1613
- Arna Bontemps - author, bibliographer, and Fisk University librarian
- Daniel J. Boorstin - 12th Librarian of Congress; historian
- Virginia Boucher - longtime leader in both the ALA and the International Federation of Library Associations; author of library science books
- Wallace Breem - novelist and law librarian
- Suzanne Briet
- Lee Pierce Butler
- Leon Carnovsky
- Daniel J. Caron
- Mary L. Chute - New Jersey State Librarian[1]
- Ingrid Carlsson, Wife of Ingvar Carlsson
- Amalia Kahana-Carmon
- Mayme Agnew Clayton
- Morris L. Cohen - attorney, law librarian and professor of law at the University at Buffalo, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard Law School and Yale Law School
- Marjorie Cotton - first professionally qualified children's librarian in New South Wales, Australia
- Andrea Crestadoro
- Charles Ammi Cutter
- John Cotton Dana (1856-1931)
- Robert Darnton
- Joan Davis, librarian Of Elisabeth Morrow School Library, Mother of Hope Davis
- Lorcan Dempsey
- Melvil Dewey
- William S. Dix
- Miriam Dudley
- Karl Franz Otto Dziatzko
- Linda Eastman
- Margaret A. Edwards
- El Sayed Mahmoud El Sheniti - seminal figure in professional librarianship in Egypt
- Theresa Elmendorf
- Miriam Eshkol
- Luther H. Evans - 10th Librarian of Congress
- Woody Evans
- Oliver Everett
F-M
- 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
- 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
- Peter Havard-Williams - librarian educator
- Frances E. Henne
- Wolfgang Herrmann - librarian; member of Nazi Purification Committee
- Caroline Hewins
- Susan Hildreth - former California State librarian[2]
- Ted Hines
- 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
- 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
- Anne Grodzins Lipow - founder of Library Solutions Institute and Press
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Roderick Samson Mabomba - Malawian librarian
- Archibald MacLeish - 9th Librarian of Congress; Pulitzer Prize poet
- Patrick Magruder - 2nd Librarian of Congress; politician
- Allie Beth Martin
- Harry S. Martin - former Head Librarian, Harvard Law Library
- John Silva Meehan - 4th Librarian of Congress
- August Molinier - French historian
- Eric Moon - editor of Library Journal
- Anne Carroll Moore - pioneering children's librarian
- Everett T. Moore - freedom of information
- 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 science
- Gabriel Naudé
- Howard Nixon
- Margaret Cross Norton
- Paul Otlet
- John Henry Pyle Pafford
- Antonio Panizzi - chief librarian of the British Museum library
- Ingrid Parent - librarian at the University of British Columbia
- 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
- Frances Clarke Sayers
- Louis A. Schultheiss
- Marvin H. Scilken
- Margaret Scoggin - young adult librarianship
- Marianne Scott
- Ralph R. Shaw
- Jesse Shera
- Louis Shores
- Regina Smith - Jenkins Law Library
- Frances Lander Spain (1903-1999) - ALA President 1960-61
- 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
- Louis Timothee - first American librarian
- Arnulfo Trejo - US Hispano-American librarian
- Gottfried van Swieten - Austrian Imperial librarian 1777-1803; introduced first card catalog
- Rob Vega - US Hispano-American librarian; Wikipedian
- Eva Verona
- Brian Campbell Vickery
- Douglas Waples
- George Watterston - 3rd Librarian of Congress
- Jessamyn West
- John Wilkin - digital library management researcher
- Ian E. Wilson
- Louis Round Wilson
- Patrick Wilson
- Justin Winsor - Harvard University librarian
- Mary Elizabeth Wood - Promoted Western librarianship practices and programs in China
- Lawrence C. Wroth - at the John Carter Brown Library
- 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 Zhurong - 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
- Davey Beauchamp - author, editor and voice actor
- 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
- Laura Bush[4]
- 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 - US politician; 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
- Frank Ferko - composer
- Benjamin Franklin
- Stephen Gaselee - diplomat
- Edmund Gosse
- Ed Greenwood - author
- Francis Hayman - English artist
- Elizabeth Heaps
- Edward Singleton Holden - US astronomer
- David Hume - philosopher
- Hypatia (c. AD 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 - US 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
- Charles V. Park - librarian at CMU
- 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
References
- ↑ "Chute named State Librarian". Retrieved 2015-09-09.
- ↑ Biography of Susan Hildreth
- ↑ 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
- ↑ "biography.com".
See also
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