Dr. Lawrence Sidney Thompson (1916–1986) worked at the

University of Kentucky The University of Kentucky (UK, UKY, or U of K) is a public land-grant research university in Lexington, Kentucky. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, the university is one of the state ...

as the Director of Libraries and as a faculty member in the classics department. He wrote extensively on the processes of

printing Printing is a process for mass reproducing text and images using a master form or template. The earliest non-paper products involving printing include cylinder seals and objects such as the Cyrus Cylinder and the Cylinders of Nabonidus. The ...

and

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. Dr. Thompson also researched processes for cataloging materials, frequently corresponding with European colleagues. He was director of the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky from 1948 to 1963. He was the author o
Human Skin
a paper on

Anthropodermic bibliopegy Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. , The Anthropodermic Book Project has examined 31 out of 50 books in public institutions supposed to have anthropodermic bindings, of which 18 have been confirmed as human ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Lawrence S. University of Kentucky faculty 1916 births 1986 deaths American librarians Place of birth missing