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Stanley Kamang Nganga

Stanley Kamanga Nganga born December 19, 1951 is a prominent Kenyan Librarian and former Director of the Kenya National Library Service.

Thomas Workman

Workman was, as well as being actively involved in the civic administration of Belfast, the Honorary Librarian of the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society becoming president in 1898.


1585 in poetry

Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet, and librarian

Advocates Library

Librarian Samuel Halkett began an ambitious catalogue, based on the rules of John Winter Jones for the British Museum catalogue of 1839, but with extensive biographical information on authors.

Alexandre Herculano

In 1837 he founded the Panorama in imitation of the English Penny Magazine, and there and in Illustraco he published the historical tales which were afterwards collected into Lendas e Narrativas; in the same year he became royal librarian at the Ajuda Palace, which enabled him to continue his studies of the past.

Ana Rosa Núñez

In Cuba, she was head librarian of the National Audit Office (Tribunal de Cuentas de la Republica de Cuba, 1950-1961) and a founding member and vice president (1957-1959) of the Colegio Nacional de Bibliotecarios Universitarios.

Anastasius

Anastasius Bibliothecarius (c. 810–878) – librarian of the Church of Rome, scholar and statesman, sometimes identified as an Antipope

Anne Plichota

With her fellow Strasbourg librarian Cendrine Wolf she co-authored Oksa Pollock (2007-2013), a French fantasy series, and a second more "gothic" trilogy Susan Hopper (first novel published March 2013).

Baltimore County Public Library

:Richard D. Minnich, previously director of the Easton, Pennsylvania, library, becomes first county librarian to direct the system.

Book preservation in developing countries

In August 1985, John F. Dean became Cornell University Library's first preservation and conservation librarian.

Bunny Watson

Named for Katharine Hepburn's librarian character in the movie Desk Set, the show was hosted by Bill Richardson and was produced by Jennifer Van Evra and Tod Elvidge in Vancouver.

Charles Edward Sims

He was appointed the State Librarian of Kansas by Governor Robert Docking in 1973.

Charles Sims

Charles Edward Sims (1925–1983), State Librarian of Kansas, 1973–1975

Clem Wilson

From 1910 to 1912 he was, for his first time, Vicar of Calverhall, Shropshire, then from 1912 to 1921 Rector of Eccleston, Cheshire where he was also estate chaplain and librarian to the Duke of Westminster at Eaton Hall, and from 1921 to 1925 Vicar of Sand Hutton, North Yorkshire.

David I. Masson

Except for a stint in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War from 1940-45, Masson remained a librarian for the rest of his working life.

De Situ Britanniae

In 1866 and 1867, Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward, the librarian of Windsor Castle, wrote a series of articles in the Gentleman's Magazine that challenged the validity of De Situ Britanniae.

Doug Zohrab

He was a newspaper copyholder and junior reporter on Wellington's Evening Post newspaper from 1934, then graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a masters degree in History in 1937 and became an assistant librarian at Parliament’s General Assembly Library.

Francesco Antonio Zaccaria

In 1751 he succeeded Muratori as ducal archivist and librarian of Modena, but was removed in 1768, owing to his Antifebronio, in which he strenuously defended the rights of the Holy See.

Frank Stephen Baldwin

Together they had seven children: Frank Pardee Baldwin (1873–1946) who was born in Philadelphia; Emma Virginia Baldwin (1877–1952) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as a librarian at the public library; Eugene Denniston Baldwin (1880–?) who was born in St. Louis, and worked as an insurance clerk; George Howard Baldwin (1890–1950); Lillian Isabel Baldwin (1886–1916); and Blanche Baker Baldwin (1891–1969) who was born in New Jersey, and worked as a clerk at the YMCA.

Gebelein predynastic mummies

I unpacked the first man we had taken out of his grave at Gebelên one Saturday in March 1900, in the presence of Lord Crawford and the Principal Librarian, and when it was laid on a table it was as complete as when I first saw it at Gebelên.

George N. Atiyeh

George N. Atiyeh (1923 – April 21, 2008) was a Lebanese librarian and scholar.

George Palmer Putnam

One of their sons, Herbert Putnam (1861–1955), became a noted librarian who served as the United States Librarian of Congress.

Gertrude Kayaga Mulindwa

Mulindwa returned to Uganda in 2000, where she worked as head librarian for Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi, for three years.

Goran Petrović

He works as a librarian in a city library in Žiča, very close to Žiča Monastery.

Ian E. Wilson

With Roch Carrier, the then National Librarian, he developed and led the process to link the National Archive and National Library as a unified institution.

Ian Wilson

Ian E. Wilson (born 1943), chief Librarian and Archivist of Canada

Ilona Hubay

In 1960, she left Hungary for Germany, where she worked first as a librarian in the provincial library (Landesbibliothek) in Coburg, and then from 1962 to 1976 as a curator of the collection of incunabula in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin

In 1789, Augustinian Carlo Amoretti, Italian Encyclopedist and librarian of Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan, discovered the authentic Italian manuscript of Antonio Pigafetta among the scattered holdings of the library.

James Danky

He served as the Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian for the Wisconsin Historical Society from 1976-2007.

Johan Nicolai Madvig

In 1828 he became reader, and in 1829 professor of Latin language and literature at Copenhagen, and in 1832 was appointed university librarian.

John Howard Hickcox, Sr.

From 1858 to 1864, he was the Assistant Librarian at the New York State Library.

John Vance Cheney

In 1887 he assumed the position of librarian of the Free Public Library of San Francisco, where he oversaw the openings of the system's first branch libraries and hosted the first west coast conference of the American Library Association in 1891.

John William Wallace

While librarian to the Law Association of Philadelphia, he compiled three volumes of decisions of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which sat in that city.

Josephine Phelan

Josephine Phelan (1905-1979), Canadian writer and librarian, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1951 for The Ardent Exile, a biography of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

Judith Crist

Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and Solomon Klein, a manufacturing jeweler.

Jules Sandeau

Sandeau had been made conservateur of the Mazarin library in 1853, elected to the Académie française in 1858, and appointed librarian of St Cloud in 1859.

Leo Allatius

Allatius was "passed over" for the position of Vatican librarian and instead became librarian to Cardinal Lelio Biscia who had an extensive private library.

Maggie Thompson

Thompson graduated in 1964 from Oberlin College as an English major, then worked as an assistant children's librarian in the Cleveland Public Library system through the summer of 1966, when she quit to have children (Valerie and Stephen).

Nadler

Judith Nadler, Jewish Romanian-American librarian and director of the University of Chicago Library

National Digital Newspaper Program

On March 31, 2004, Bruce Cole, the directory of the NEH, and James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, signed an agreement creating the National Digital Newspaper Program.

Predatory open-access publishing

The term "predatory open access" was conceived by University of Colorado Denver librarian and researcher Jeffrey Beall.

Publication of Domesday Book

In March 1767 Charles Morton (1716–1799), a librarian at the British Museum, was put in charge of the scheme; a fact which caused resentment towards him from Abraham Farley, a deputy chamberlain of the Exchequer who for many years had controlled access to Domesday Book in its repository at the Chapter House, Westminster, and furthermore had been involved in the recent Parliament Rolls printing operation.

Roslyn Gentle

Roslyn Gentle is an Australian actress, best known for her role in the television series Prisoner as librarian/prostitute Laura Gardiner/Brandy Carter – an inmate who suffers from multiple personality disorder – in 1983.

Siegfried Lipiner

Siegfried Salomo Lipiner (24 October 1856 – 30 December 1911) was an Austrian writer and poet whose works made an impression on Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche, but who published nothing after 1880 and lived out his life as Librarian of Parliament in Vienna.

The Burroughs

Eileen Colwell, the pioneer children’s librarian worked at Hendon in the 1930s.

Turgut Berkes

He worked as a radio programmer, librarian, journalist and translator until 1989 when he founded with his partner Fuat Güner (of the famous Turkish pop trio Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan (MFÖ)) FT Recording Studios in Istanbul, which was at the time the most advanced in Turkey.

William Bellenden

One of the few that survived was placed in the university library at Cambridge, and freely drawn upon by Conyers Middleton, the librarian, in his History of the Life of Cicero.

William Hamilton Drummond

He was soon elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy, contributed frequently to its Transactions, held for many years the office of its librarian, and took a scholarly interest in Celtic literature.

William Kaye Lamb

From 1948 to 1968 he was the Dominion Archivist of Canada, and from 1953 to 1968 he was the first National Librarian of Canada.

Xiaoxiang poetry

Besides the Han Dynasty writers and editors, such as Wang Yi, who contributed to the Chuci, another important Han era poet in the Xiaoxiang tradition was Jia Yi, who was exiled by Han Wendi to Changsha.

Yvonne Craig

Most famously, in Batman, she had the role of Batgirl (and her alter ego, librarian Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon's daughter).


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