Library Hall of Fame

The Library Hall of Fame was a list created in 1951 that recognized leaders of the late 19th- and early 20th-century library movement, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the American Library Association.[1]

A similar list[2] was published in 1999, honoring "100 of the most important people in 20th-century librarianship," limited to "only people who lived and died in [the 20th century]."[3]

Members

Name Both lists 1951 list 1999 list
Mary Eileen Ahern Both
Alexander P. Allain 1999
Edwin H. Anderson 1951
May Hill Arbuthnot 1999
Lester E. Asheim 1999
Sarah B. Askew 1951
Hugh Atkinson 1999
Augusta Baker 1999
William J. Barrow 1999
Mildred Leona Batchelder 1999
John Shaw Billings Both
William Warner Bishop 1999
Henry Bliss 1999
Sarah C. N. Bogle Both
Richard Rogers Bowker 1999
Arthur E. Bostwick 1951
William Howard Brett Both
Pierce Butler 1999
Andrew Carnegie 1999
Leon Carnovsky 1999
Verner Warren Clapp 1999
David Horace Clift 1999
Fred C. Cole 1999
George Watson Cole 1999
Robert B. Croneberger 1999
Frederick M. Crunden 1951
Arthur Curley 1999
Charles Ammi Cutter 1951
John Cotton Dana Both
Sadie Peterson Delaney 1999
Melvil Dewey Both
William S. Dix 1999
Robert B. Downs 1999
Paul Dunkin 1999
Wilberforce Eames 1951
Linda Eastman 1999
Margaret A. Edwards 1999
Theresa Elmendorf 1951
Charles Evans Both
Luther Evans 1999
Salome C. Fairchild 1951
William I. Fletcher 1951
Jennie Flexner 1951
Name Both lists 1951 list 1999 list
Virginia Proctor Powell Florence 1999
Henry Clay Folger 1999
William E. Foster 1951
Herman H. Fussler 1999
Loleta Fyan 1999
Mary Gaver 1999
James L. Gillis 1951
Rudolph H. Gjelsness 1999
Fred Glazer 1999
Margaret Hayes Grazier 1999
Samuel Swett Green 1951
Emerson Greenaway 1999
J. C. M. Hanson Both
Adelaide R. Hasse 1999
Mary E. Hazeltine 1951
Frances E. Henne 1999
Caroline M. Hewins Both
Judson Toll Jennings 1951
Charles C. Jewett 1951
Carleton B. Joeckel 1999
Virginia Lacy Jones 1999
Frederick Paul Keppel 1999
Alice B. Kroeger 1951
William Coolidge Lane 1951
Josephus Nelson Larned 1951
George H. Locke 1951
Harry Miller Lydenberg 1999
Stephen McCarthy 1999
Archibald MacLeish 1999
Margaret Mann 1999
Charles Martel Both
Allie Beth Martin 1999
Frederic G. Melcher 1999
Keyes D. Metcalf 1999
Carl H. Milam 1999
Sydney B. Mitchell 1999
William Andrew Moffett 1999
Foster E. Mohrhardt 1999
Anne Carroll Moore 1999
Bessie Boehm Moore 1999
Everett T. Moore 1999
Isadore Gilbert Mudge 1999
L. Quincy Mumford 1999
Name Both lists 1951 list 1999 list
Ralph Munn 1999
Margaret Norton 1999
Paul Evan Peters 1999
Mary Wright Plummer 1951
William F. Poole 1951
Effie Louise Power 1999
Herbert Putnam 1999
S.R. Ranganathan 1999
Josephine Rathbone 1951
Joseph Henry Reason 1999
Ernest C. Richardson Both
Arthur Fremont Rider 1999
Frank Bradway Rogers 1999
Charlemae Rollins 1999
Francis R. St. John 1999
Frances Clarke Sayers 1999
Marvin Scilken 1999
Margaret C. Scoggin 1999
Minnie Earl Sears 1999
Katharine Sharp 1999
Ralph Shaw 1999
Jesse H. Shera 1999
Louis Shores 1999
Frances Lander Spain 1999
Forrest Spaulding 1999
Ainsworth Rand Spofford 1951
Lutie E. Stearns 1951
Mortimer Taube 1999
Maurice Tauber 1999
Reuben G. Thwaites 1951
Alice S. Tyler 1951
Ralph Ulveling 1999
George B. Utley Both
Robert G. Vosper 1999
Douglas Waples 1999
Joseph L. Wheeler 1999
Edward C. Williams 1999
Charles C. Williamson 1999
Halsey William Wilson 1999
Louis Round Wilson 1999
Constance M. Winchell 1999
Donald Goddard Wing 1999
Justin Winsor 1951

External links

  • 100 of the Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century: A guide to archival holdings

References

  1. ^ "A Library Hall of Fame" (1951 March 15) Library Journal, 766: 466-72.
  2. ^ "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th century" (1999 December) American Libraries, 30 (11): 38-46, 48.
  3. ^ "100 of the Most Important Leaders we had in the 20th century" (1999 December) American Libraries, 30 (11): 39.