WSamuel Austin Allibone was an American author, editor, and bibliographer.
WJohn Russell Bartlett was an American historian and linguist.
WTerry Belanger is the founding director of Rare Book School (RBS), an institute concerned with education for the history of books and printing, and with rare books and special collections librarianship. He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia (UVa), where RBS has its home base. Between 1972 and 1992, he devised and ran a master's program for the training of rare book librarians and antiquarian booksellers at the Columbia University School of Library Service. He is a 2005 MacArthur Fellow.
WCharles L. Blockson is an American historian, author, bibliophile, and collector of books, historical documents, art, and other materials related to the history and culture of African Americans, continental Africans, and the African diaspora throughout the rest of the world. He curated two university collections related to the study of African-American history and culture: the Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora at Pennsylvania State University and the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University.
WHenry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903) was an American chemist and bibliographer of science.
WAlma Dawson is an American scholar of librarianship. She retired as Russell B. Long Professor at the School of Library & Information Science, Louisiana State University in 2014 and was awarded Emeritus status in 2015. In 2019 Dr. Dawson was honored with the Essae Martha Culver Distinguished Service Award from the Louisiana Library Association which honors a librarian whose professional service and achievements, whose leadership in Louisiana association work, and whose lifetime accomplishments in a field of librarianship within the state merit recognition of particular value to Louisiana librarianship.
WWilberforce Eames was an American bibliographer and librarian, known as the 'Dean of American bibliographers'.
WCharles Evans was an American librarian and bibliographer.
WOliver Lanard Fassig was an American meteorologist and climatologist who worked for the United States Weather Bureau initially as part of the Signal Corps of the United States War Department and later affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture.
WWilliam Isaac Fletcher was an American librarian, bibliographer, and indexer who served as the head librarian of Amherst College from 1883 to 1911 and the President of the American Library Association in 1891-92. In 1951, he was named by Library Journal to the Library Hall of Fame.
WFrederick Richmond Goff was an American rare book librarian and specialist in incunabula.
WFanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was an American librarian, bibliographer, and editor who founded Jewish Book Week. As head of the West End branch of the Boston Public Library (BPL), she was the first Jew to direct a public library branch in Massachusetts. During her tenure Goldstein made a point of recognizing the literature of the various ethnic communities of Boston, and curated a unique collection of Judaica. She also published literary articles and bibliographies and gave lectures on Jewish literature. After retiring in 1958 she became the literary editor of the Jewish Advocate.
WJames Christian Meinich Hanson was a Norwegian born, American librarian.
WFrederick Leypoldt was a German-American bibliographer, the founder of Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Index Medicus and other publications.
WJan Longone is Curator of American Culinary History at Special Collections, Hatcher Library, University of Michigan. Julia Child, James Beard, and New York Times food editor Craig Claiborne were all early fans of Longone’s out-of-print cookbook collection. Their enthusiasm prompted her to create The Wine and Food Library in 1972, which offers books by mail order or private appointment and remains one of the most important antiquarian culinary resources in the world.
WLoy McAfee was an American surgeon, bibliographer, editor.
WJoseph Amasa Munk was a Los Angeles, California physician who had an interest in a Willcox, Cochise County, Arizona ranch, who became greatly interested in the history and lore of Arizona. He accumulated a large and important collection of books about Arizona, which he donated to the University of Arizona in Tucson. He also wrote a copiously illustrated guide, Arizona Sketches, to some of the more important landmarks in the state.
WDaniel Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925) was an American bibliographer, author, politician, and historian. He also worked as an assistant librarian at the Library of Congress.
WCharles Alexander Nelson was a United States librarian and bibliographer.
WDoris Niles was an American dancer.
WFrederic Beecher Perkins was an American editor, writer, and librarian. He was a member of the Beecher family, a prominent 19th Century American religious family.
WWilliam Frederick Poole was an American bibliographer and librarian.
WDavid Anton Randall was an American book dealer, librarian and bibliographic scholar. He was head of Scribner's rare book department from 1935 to 1956, librarian of the Lilly Library and Professor of Bibliography at Indiana University. Randall was responsible for the sale of two copies of the Gutenberg Bible. As a practitioner of bibliology with a bibliophiliac addiction, a raconteur of history of books, and an avid collector, he developed a keen appreciation for books as physical objects—including the tasks of collecting, cataloging, finding and preserving them.
WWill Ransom was an American graphic designer, letterer, typeface designer, and the foremost bibliographer of private presses.
WMiloslav Rechcigl, Jr., or Mila Rechcigl, is a trained biochemist, nutritionist and cancer researcher, writer, editor, historian, bibliographer and genealogist. He was one of the founders and past President for many years of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences.
WBenjamin Franklin Stevens, was a bibliographer and for about thirty years before his death was the US despatch agent at London.
WHenry Stevens was a renowned American bibliographer.
WFrederic Vinton was a bibliographer who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 9 October 1817. He was graduated at Amherst in 1837, and studied theology at Andover and New Haven, but was never ordained.
WHenry Raup Wagner was an American book collector, bibliographer, cartographer, historian, and business executive. He was the author of over 170 publications, including books and scholarly essays, mainly about the histories of the American frontier and the Spanish exploration and colonization of Mexico. He also assembled tens of thousands of books and manuscripts and formed several collections from them.
WHalsey William Wilson was the creator of the Readers' Guide, the Cumulative Book Index, and the Book Review Digest and founder of the H. W. Wilson Company, a publisher. In 1999, American Libraries named him one of the "100 Most Important Leaders We Had in the 20th Century".
WMonroe Nathan Work was an African-American sociologist who founded the Department of Records and Research at the Tuskegee Institute in 1908. His published works include the Negro Year Book and A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America, a bibliography of approximately seventeen thousand references to African Americans.