Centennial Celebration - 100 List (L)
100 Librarians that Have Shaped the Profession
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- John Cotton Dana
- Melvil Dewey
- S. R. Ranganathan
- Henriette Avram
- Sanford Berman
- Lawrence Clark Powell
- Seymour Lubetzky
- Charles Ammi Cutter - 1837 - 1903
- Thomas Bodley - Founder of the Bodleian Library and English diplomat; 1545 -1613
- Frances Clarke Sayers
- Minnie Earl Sears
- Arnulfo Trejo
- Mary Eileen Ahern
- Jesse Shera
- Nancy Pearl
- Batgirl - a.k.a. Barbara Gordon
- Michael Gorman
- Genie Tyburski
- Jessamyn West
- Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Librarian of Congress, 1864 - 1897
- Genie Tyburski
- Rupert Giles
- Demetrius of Phaleron - Great Library of Alexandria, founded 290 to 282 B.C.E.
- Guy St Clair
- Sabrina I. Pacifici
- Martha Rhine
- Michael Buckland
- Marian the Librarian
- Fred W. Roper
- Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan - Librarian from, The Mummy (1999 film). Actress: Rachel Weisz
- Rose L. Vormelker
- Flynn Carsen - Noah Wyle's character from "The Librarian" movie franchise
- Jane Dysart - Organized the Computers in Libraries, Internet Librarian and KM World conferences for over 10 years. These events are the "go to" places for librarians who need to stay current with the latest technology trends and their application to librarianship.
- Diane Ridgell - My childhood media specialist at North City Elementary School
- Lucien, of the Dreaming - created by Neil Gaiman in "The Sandman" to care for all the books "that have never been written"
- Roy Tennant
- Daniel Chudnov
- Donna Scheeder - With in-depth experience in the political arena (Congressional Research Service and Law Library Services at the Library of Congress as well as Democratic National Party & DC municipal agencies), Donna has shared strategies for getting things done/success in the global information world.
- Stephen Abram - Shares his extensive and forward-focused information industry knowledge of trends, technology, and library practices through blogs, magazine articles, and hundred of lectures and talks around the world.
- Hope Tillman - Early internet pioneer who mentored, taught, and pushed thousands of librarians into a new information age.
- Frederick Kilgore - Original director for OCLC when it was known as the Ohio College Library Center, a library consortia of some 34 Ohio libraries.
- Winifred Sewell - Former SLA President, and more notably the architect of the MeSH language. She was the guru for many of us who followed and used the Medical Subject Headings for the NLM database files. Frank B. Rogers was the Director of the National Library of Medicine at the time.
- Katherine Heburn - she represented the "typical special librarian" in the movie "Desk Set" with Spencer Tracey (1957).
- Michael Segur - The Social Library integrates top-down vetted information (or content) with bottom-up social input and captures the collective "wisdom of the community".
- Roger K Summit - Founder and chairman of one of the very first online commercial database services, Dialog, with file 1, ERIC, the Education Resource and Information Center database as the beginning of a new information retrieval era.
- Gertrude Lamb - As the director of the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT, she started the whole movement to install "circuit rider" librarians to go on rounds with physicians and recommend to the attending physicians, literature to support or change direction in terms of medical treatment.
- Herman H. Henkle - SLA President 1945/46, SLA Hall of Fame, director of the John Crerar Library 21 years, founder of SLA's Translations Center, advocate of cooperation among all kinds of libraries shepherded early years of UNC-SILS/EPA internship program sending hundreds of students into special libraries.
- Ross Atkinson - Developed the first state-wide computer library network (Illinois).
- Rebecca Browning Rankin - New York City's municipal reference librarian from 1920 to 1952 and created the Municipal Archives of the City of New York. In these pre-television days radio was the paramount communication medium. Rankin placed specialized librarians on talk shows of the era and was even successful in getting special librarians into amateur theatrical activities, bringing attention to the special libraries dimension of the profession in some of the era's popular entertainment activities.
- Frederick W. Lancaster - Known for his work on online retrieval including evaluation studies of the MEDLARS-system. He also has an unusual broad and comprehensive authorship in Library and Information Science (LIS). Wrote "Toward Paperless Information Systems" in 1978 and a classic on library evaluation with second edition in 1993. Very forward thinking.
- Louise Rountree
- Virginia Lacey Jones - Director of the Atlanta University School of Library Science and mentor for many librarians
- Praveen Kumar Jain - 2008 SLA Professional Award Winner
- Eugene Garfield - Retired Founder of Current Contents & Science Citation Index, and developer of Impact Factors, tools that enabled special librarians in science & medicine to track the interdependencies of scientists and journals on one another, and work out a system of rankings that helps us prioritize journals even now.
- Catherine "Kitty" Scott - Kitty Scott, SLA past-president, has been an active SLA member for many years. She has been recognized over the years for her contributions with several pretigious SLA awards. Prioring to retiring, her last position was Chief Librarian and Director of the National Air and Space Museum Library. She has mentored many members who have gone on to become leaders at the association level. Kitty has been instrumental in identifying members who are contributing on a unit level and nominating them for association awards and/or recommending them for association board positions. Never "retiring", Kitty is a founder of the Retired Member caucus.
- Sanjay K Bihani - Active in IFLA activities as a member of standing committee for Government Librareis and Asia and Oceania Sections. A true professional with more than 20 years dedicated service to the profession.
- Marcia J. Bates - Written extensively in information-seeking behavior, search strategies, and user-centered design of information retrieval systems.
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