Ernest Albert Savage (1877–1966) was Principal
Librarian
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of
Edinburgh
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Public Libraries from 1922 to 1942, President of the Scottish Library Association from 1929 to 1931, and President of the Library Association (now
CILIP
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It was established in 20 ...
) in 1936.
He wrote extensively on libraries and
library science
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. Savage had a career-long concern with the training and professional status of librarians.
Works
* ''The Bodleian Library''. Ernest Albert Savage. (1902)
* ''Manual of Descriptive Annotation for Library Catalogs''. Ernest Albert Baker and Ernest Albert Savage. (1906)
''The story of libraries and book collecting'' Ernest Albert Savage. (1909)
''Old English Libraries; the Making, Collection, and Use of Books During the Middle Ages'' Ernest Albert Savage. (1912)
* ''Notes on the early monastic libraries of Scotland; With an account of the Registrum librorum Angliæ and the Catalogus scriptorum ecclesiæ of John Boston of the abbey of Bury St. Edmunds''. (1928)
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* The libraries of Bermuda, the Bahamas, the British West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, Puerto Rico, and the American Virgin Islands; A report to the Carnegie corporation of New York (1934)
* ''One way to form a music library''. (1935)
* ''A Librarian Looks at Readers; Observation for Book Selection and Personal Service''. Ernest Albert Savage. 2nd Ed. 266 pages. Library Association. (1950)
* ''A Librarian’s Memories''. Ernest A. Savage, LL.D. Grafton & Co. 179 pages. (1952), memoir
References
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External links
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at Project Gutenberg
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1877 births
1966 deaths
20th-century Scottish historians
20th-century Scottish memoirists
Scottish librarians
British medievalists