Beverly P. Lynch is an American scholar, professor, librarian, and administrator. She was president of the American Library Association from 1985-1986.[1]

Beverly P. Lynch
President of the American Library Association
In office
1985–1986
Preceded byE. J. Josey
Succeeded byRegina Minudri
Personal details
Born (1936-12-27) December 27, 1936
NationalityAmerican
Education
OccupationLibrarian

Education

Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, a Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1][2]

Career

Lynch was executive director of the Association of College and Research Libraries from 1972-1977. She was the university librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1977 to 1989.[1]

In 1989 she was appointed dean of the University of California Los Angeles UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.[1] She was far-thinking about education for librarians.[3] She was also Director of the UCLA Senior Fellows Program[4]

From 2000-2001 she took leave to lead the Center for Research Libraries. [5]

Returning to UCLA she became the first director of UCLA's California Rare Book School.[6]

She served as president of the American Library Association from 1985 to 1986.[1] Her papers are held at the American Library Association Archives. [7]

Awards

In 1987, she was honored as a distinguished alumna by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received a similar honor in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.[2]

Lynch won the highest honors from the American Library Association. She was awarded the Joseph W. Lippincott Award in 2009, the Melvil Dewey Medal in 2012[2] and the Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship education in 2015.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lynch, Beverly P. (1936-) - The American Library Association Archives". archives.library.illinois.edu.
  2. 1 2 3 "Beverly Lynch Awarded Melvil Dewey Medal by the American Library Association - UCLA GSE&IS Ampersand". ampersand.gseis.ucla.edu.
  3. ↑ Lynch, Beverly P.(2008) "Library Education: Its Past, Its Present, Its Future," Library Trends 56, no. 4 : 931–53.
  4. ↑ Lynch, Beverly P. 1994. “Taking on the Issues in a Changing Environment: The Senior Fellows Program.” Journal of Library Administration 20 (2): 5–15.
  5. ↑ Building Bridges: Annual Report 2000-2001. Center for Research Libraries. 2001.
  6. ↑ Albanese, Andrew. 2006. “UCLA To Launch Rare Book School.” Library Journal 131 (3): 18–20.
  7. ↑ Beverly P. Lynch Papers, 1973-2011. American Library Association Archives.
  8. ↑ Dr. Beverly Lynch wins Beta Phi Mu Award. American Library Association, 2015.
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