- Laura Bush
Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States. - Jessamyn West
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter. - Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot is an American author of romantic comedies for teens and adults. She has also written under the pseudonyms Patricia Cabot and Jenny Carroll. She has written and published almost 40 books, and is best known for "The Princess Diaries", later made by Walt Disney Pictures into two feature films of the same name. Cabot has more than 15 million copies of her books — children's, young adult, and adult — in print worldwide. - Lorcan Dempsey
Lorcan Dempsey oversees the work of OCLC Research and participates in OCLC's Strategic Leadership Team. Before this he worked in the UK as, at times, Director of the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, founding Director of the Resource Discovery Network, and Director of the Joint Information Systems Committee's Distributed National Electronic Resource. Lorcan Dempsey writes and talks about libraries and networked information. - Gary Price
Gary Price is a librarian, best known for founding ResourceShelf.com and originating Price's List of Lists, "a database of ranked listings of companies, people and resources freely available on the Internet", which is now maintained by others. Currently employed by the search engine Ask.com as Director of Online Information Resources. Price also started DocuTicker a daily updated of new full text reports and documents from government, non-government organizations, … - Michael Gorman
Michael Gorman (b. 1941), grew up in London, England and gained an interest in libraries in part through his experiences at the Hendon library run by Eileen Colwell. He attended Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University) in London from 1964-1966. - Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of wisdom. He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. K. Chesterton. - Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (December 10, 1851-December 26, 1931) was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification system for library classification. Dewey was born Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey in Adams Center, New York in the United States. He attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. He graduated in 1874 with a bachelor's degree and received a master's degree from Amherst in 1877. - Nancy Pearl
Nancy Pearl (born January 12 1945) is a librarian, best-selling author, book reviewer and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. Her prolific reading and her knowledge of books and literature first made her locally famous in Seattle, Washington, where she regularly appears on public radio recommending books. She achieved broader fame with "Book Lust," her 2003 guide to good reading. - John Cotton Dana
John Cotton Dana (b. August 19 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont - d. July 21 1929 in New Jersey) was a highly influential American librarian and museum director who did much of his work in Newark, New Jersey. In 1874, he began his studies at Dartmouth College. During college Dana tutored other students in Greek and Latin. He went to Denver, Colorado where he passed the Colorado bar in 1880, and later became director of the Denver Public Library from 1889 to 1898. - Audre Lorde
Audre Geraldine Lorde (February 18, 1934 in Harlem, New York City - November 17, 1992) was a writer, poet and activist. - Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 - 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. Larkin is commonly regarded as one of the greatest English poets of the latter half of the twentieth century. In 2003 Larkin was chosen as the "nation's best-loved poet" in a survey by the Poetry Book Society. - Susan Patron
Susan Patron is an author of children's books. In 2007, she won the Newbery Award for "The Higher Power of Lucky". Patron's first children's book, "Burgoo Stew", was published in 1990. It was followed by three more picture books and the book "Maybe Yes, Maybe No, Maybe Maybe", which won the 1993 Parent’s Choice Award. Currently she is working on a sequel to "Lucky" called "Lincoln's Knot". - Charles Henry
Charles Henry (1859- ?) was a French librarian and editor. He was born at Bollwiller, Haut-Rhin, and was educated in Paris, where in 1881 he became assiatant and afterward librarian in the Sorbonne. As a specialist in the history of mathematics, he was sent to Italy to seek some manuscripts of that nature which the government wished to publish. He edited several works upon kindred subjects, as well as memoirs, letters, and other volumes, … - Daniel J. Boorstin
Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 - February 28, 2004) was a prolific American historian, professor, attorney, and writer. He served as the U.S. Librarian of Congress from 1975 until 1987. Boorstin was born in Atlanta, Georgia and died in Washington, D.C. Boorstin was of Jewish descent. Boorstin graduated with highest honors from Harvard, studied at Balliol College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and earned his PhD. at Yale University. - Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times. - Sara Ryan
Sara Ryan (born 1971) is an American writer and librarian living in Oregon. - Joanna Cole
Joanna Cole, who also writes under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet is a United States author of children’s books who teaches science. She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. - S. R. Ranganathan
Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (August 9, 1892, Sirkali, Tamil Nadu - September 27, 1972, Bangalore) was an innovative mathematician and librarian from India. His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major analytico-synthetic classification system, the Colon classification. He is considered to be the father of library science in India. - Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton of Boston, Massachusetts is the current editor of the Horn Book Magazine. - Thomas James
Thomas James (c. 1573 - August, 1629) was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He was born at Newport, Isle of Wight, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1593. In 1602, his wide knowledge of books, together with his skill in deciphering manuscripts and detecting literary forgeries, secured him the post of librarian to the library newly founded by Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford. - John Mark Ockerbloom
John Mark Ockerbloom is a pioneer in library science. He was the first person to make a substantial effort to catalog online books in a rigorous and comprehensive manner. He is the author of The Online Books Page, which lists over 25,000 books, all of which are freely available for reading online or downloading. - Sarah Thomas
Sarah E. Thomas is an internationally-known university librarian. She has held the office of Bodley's Librarian and Director of University Library Services at the University of Oxford since February 2007. In this position, she is responsible for the operation of the largest university library in the United Kingdom, and one of the major research libraries in the world. Dr Thomas was raised in Haydenville, Massachusetts and studied at Smith College. - Eleanor Estes
Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 - July 15, 1988) was an American children's author. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut as Eleanor Ruth Rosenfield. Originally a librarian, Estes' writing career began following a case of tuberculosis. Bedridden while recovering, Estes began writing down some of her childhood memories, which would later turn into full-length children's books. Estes's book "Ginger Pye" (1951) won the Newbery Medal, … - Kathleen de la Peña McCook
Kathleen de la Peña McCook is Distinguished University Professor at the University of South Florida. She has also been on the faculties of the School of Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University and of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned her MA at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, … - Elizabeth Jennings
Elizabeth Jennings was an English poet, noted for her clarity of style and simplicity of literary approach. Her Roman Catholicism coloured much of her work. Jennings was born in Lincolnshire, but her family moved to Oxford when she was six. There she later attended St Anne's College. After graduation, she became a librarian. She is not generally regarded as an innovator. Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, … - Mark Miller
Mark Miller is an American civil rights lawyer and a librarian. In 1992, Mr. Miller was an independent candidate for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 13th district. A critic of what he called the "anti-democratic role of money in politics," Mr. Miller spent very little money (about $250 total) on the campaign and, as a matter of principle, accepted no campaign contributions of money. - Sanford Berman
Sanford Berman (b. October 6, 1933) is an outspoken, radical librarian (cataloger) known for promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship and acting as a pro-active information conduit to other librarians around the world, mostly via public speaking, voluminous correspondence, and unsolicited "care packages" delivered via the U.S. Postal Service. - Annette Curtis Klause
Annette Curtis Klause (b. 1953) is an American author and librarian, specializing in young adult fiction. Annette is currently the head of children's services at the Aspen Hill Community Library in Montgomery County, Maryland. Born in Bristol, England, she now lives in Hyattsville, Maryland with her husband Mark and their cats. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and a Master of Library Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park. - Keith Michael Fiels
Keith Michael Fiels (born 1949) is an American librarian. He was appointed Executive Director of the American Library Association in July 2002. Keith Fiels earned a B.A. and an MLS from the State University of New York, Buffalo and did advanced studies at the University of Denver. Prior to coming to ALA, Fiels served as Director of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners. Fiels has served as President of the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), … - Pura Belpré
Pura Belpré, was the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City, and also a writer, collector of folktales, and puppeteer. There is a discrepancy in her date of birth which is variously cited as February 2, 1899, December 2, 1901, or February 2, 1903 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American non-fiction writer, short story writer, novelist, commercial artist, lecturer, and social reformer. She is mainly known today for her short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," based on her own bout with mental illness and misguided medical treatment. - Fred Kilgour
Frederick Gridley Kilgour (January 6 1914-July 31 2006) was an American librarian and educator known as the founding director of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), an international computer library network and database that changed the way people use libraries. He was its president and executive director from 1967 to 1980. - Judith Krug
Judith Fingeret Krug is a United States librarian. She has been the Director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967. She has held the post of Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation since 1969. She received her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied political theory. In 1964, she earned her M.A. at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago. - Roch Carrier
Roch Carrier, OC, (born 13 May 1937) is a celebrated Canadian novelist and author of "contes" (a very brief form of the short story). He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada. He was born in Sainte-Justine, Quebec and studied at the Collège St-Louis in New Brunswick, the Université de Montréal in Quebec, and at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France, where he received a doctorate in literature. From 1994 to 1997, he served as head of the Canada Council. - Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson was a noted librarian, information scientist and philosopher who served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies there. He is the author of three books: *"Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Biographical Control" (University of California Press, 1968) *"Public Knowledge, … - Peter Lyman
G. Peter Lyman (September 13 1940, San Francisco – July 2 2007, Berkeley, California) was an American professor of information science who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and was well known in U.S. academia for his research on online information and his leadership in remaking university library systems for the digital era. - Ken Roberts
Ken Roberts (born 1946) is a Canadian children's writer who lives in Brantford, Ontario. - Margaret Herrick
Margaret Herrick, (September 27, 1902-June 21, 1976) was the librarian and director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Herrick is generally credited with naming the Academy Award an "Oscar", declaring the statuettes "looked just like my Uncle Oscar." However, others, including Academy President Bette Davis, have claimed they invented the name. She was born in Spokane, Washington, United States. Her maiden name was Margaret Buck. - E. J. Josey
E. J. Josey is an American activist and librarian.
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