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Belle da Costa Greene
Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), born Belle Marion Greener, was J. Pierpont Morgan's personal librarian from 1905 and the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (1924–1948); an African American who passed as white.
Ernest Cushing Richardson
Ernest Cushing Richardson (1860–1939) was an American librarian who led Princeton's library from 1890 to 1925 and wrote the first monograph on library classification theory.
Iris Weinshall
Iris Weinshall, American public administrator and wife of Senator Chuck Schumer; NYC transportation commissioner 2000-2007, CUNY facilities vice chancellor, and New York Public Library Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer.
Librarian
Librarian: information professional who helps patrons find and use information and manages library collections. Types include academic, public, school, and special librarians; US median pay $68,270 (May 2025), 3% job growth projected 2025-2035.
Melvil Dewey
Melvil Dewey (1851–1931), American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal Classification in 1876, co-founded the American Library Association, and founded the first library school; resigned as New York State Librarian in 1905 over racism and harassment.
Robert Newlen
Robert Randolph Newlen is an American librarian who joined the Library of Congress in 1975 and has served as Acting Librarian of Congress since May 2025.
S. R. Ranganathan
S. R. Ranganathan (1892–1972), Indian librarian and former mathematician, father of library science in India; creator of the Five Laws of Library Science (1931) and the faceted Colon Classification (1933).
Samuel C. Bradford
Samuel Clement Bradford (1878–1948) was a British mathematician and librarian at the Science Museum in London, known for Bradford's law of scattering, published in 1934.
Steven Pruitt
Steven Pruitt, editing as Ser Amantio di Nicolao, is English Wikipedia's most prolific editor by edit count, with over six million edits and 33,000+ articles created; a Time 2017 honoree and unpaid volunteer.