Biographies of American Library People

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Biographies of Library People of the World

The stamp in the upper right corner of this First Day Cover honors three former directors of the Philippine National Library.

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Compilations

Professional Achievements Register for Chartered Institute for Library
& Information Professionals (CILIP) of Great Britain
(Note: This is a project to collect biographical information on library professionals in Great Britain)

Women in Canadian Librarianship
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/002026-250-e.html

Dictionary of Italian librarians edited by S. Butto'
http://www.aib.it/aib/editoria/dbbi20/dbbi20.htm

Sources for the history of Italian librarians compiled by Alberto Petrucciani
http://www.aib.it/aib/stor/stor.htm

World Library People on Postage Stamps
http://www.libraryhistorybuff.org/bibliophilately-people-world.htm

Individuals

Thomas Bray
http://satucket.com/lectionary/Thomas_Bray.htm

Andrew Carnegie
http://www.carnegie.org/sub/about/biography.html
http://andrewcarnegie.tripod.com/
http://www.scotcities.com/carnegie/

Anthony Panizzi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Panizzi

Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan
http://w3.uniroma1.it/vrd/mathematics/i-ranganathan.html
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/ranganathan_for_ias

Margaret Windeyer, 1866-1939 (Australian librarian)
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120744b.htm

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