Milton J. Ferguson
President of the American Library Association
In office
1938–1939
Preceded byHarrison Warwick Craver
Succeeded byRalph Munn
Personal details
Born
Milton James Ferguson

(1879-04-11)April 11, 1879
Hubbardstown, West Virginia, US
DiedOctober 23, 1954(1954-10-23) (aged 75)
EducationUniversity of Oklahoma
OccupationLibrarian

Milton James Ferguson (April 11, 1879 – October 23, 1954)[1] was an American librarian. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1906, and served as librarian of the University of Oklahoma from 1902 to 1907. He helped organize and was elected the first president of the Oklahoma Library Association (1907–08).

He was California State Librarian (1917–1930)[2] and President of the California Library Association in 1919. He wrote about the development of county libraries. [3][4] In 1926 Ferguson was an honorary member of the California Society of Printmakers (né Etchers). Ferguson also worked for the Carnegie Corporation making library surveys in Africa.[5]

He was Chief librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library from 1930- 1949.[6] In 1933-34 he served as President of the New York Library Association.

In 1938–39, Ferguson was president of the American Library Association.[7]

References

  1. ^ "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US 2015". Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. 2015. ((cite web)): Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ "California State Librarians". California State Library. Archived from the original on 15 April 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  3. ^ Ferguson, Milton James. 1930. “County Libraries as California Sees Them.” Bulletin of the American Library Association 24 (January): 314–18.
  4. ^ "Cornelius James Brosnan Papers, 1917-1950". University of Idaho. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  5. ^ Ferguson, Milton James. 1929. “South Africa from the Library Angle.” Library Review 2 (January): 70–74.
  6. ^ Gray, Christopher (July 25, 2004). "Brooklyn Public Library; A Living Monument To the Power of the Word". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  7. ^ "Oklahoma Library Legends - Milton J. Ferguson". Oklahoma Library Association. Retrieved 25 January 2016.

External links

Non-profit organization positions Preceded byHarrison Warwick Craver President of the American Library Association 1938–1939 Succeeded byRalph Munn


Presidents of the American Library Association
Authority control databases
Categories