List of presidents of the Bibliographical Society of America explained

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) fosters the study of books and manuscripts. It was established in 1904.

The first president was William Coolidge Lane. The first woman president was Ruth Mortimer in 1988.

NameTermOther accomplishments
William Coolidge Lane[1] 1904-1909Librarian Harvard University, 1898–1928, President American Library Association, 1898–1899.
Azariah Smith Root[2] 1909-1910Director, Oberlin College Library, 1890–1927. President, American Library Association, 1921–1922.
William Dawson Johnston.[3] 1910-1912Historian of the Library of Congress,[4] Director, Columbia University Libraries, 1909–1913.
Charles Henry Gould[5] 1912-1913University librarian at McGill University, president of the American Library Association, 1908–1909.
Andrew Keogh[6] 1909-1914Director, Yale University Library, 1916–1938, president of the American Library Association, 1929–1930.
Carl B. Roden[7] 1914-1916Director, Chicago Public Library, 1918–1950, President, American Library Association, 1927–1928.
George Watson Cole[8] 1916-1921Director of the Huntington Library
William Warner Bishop[9] 1921-1923President, American Library Association, 1918–1919, President, International Federation of Library Associations[10]
Azariah Smith Root1923-1926Also served as BSA president, 1909–1910.
Herman H. B. Meyer[11] 1926-1929Library of Congress in several positions including Chief Bibliographer, President, American Library Association, 1924–1925.
Harry M. Lydenberg[12] 1929-1931Director New York Public Library, 1934–1941,[13] President, American Library Association, 1932–1933.
Lawrence C. Wroth[14] 1931-1933Director, John Carter Brown Library,1924-1957, author of The Colonial Printer.[15]
Augustus Hunt Shearer[16] [17] 1933-1936Director of the Grosvenor Library in Buffalo, NY, 1917–1941.[18] [19]
Leonard Leopold Mackall [20] [21] 1936-1937President, Georgia Historical Society.[22]
Earl Gregg Swem[23] 1937-1938Librarian, College of William & Mary, Earl Gregg Swem Library named for him. Bibliographer of Virginia history.[24]
Victor Hugo Paltsits.[25] 1938-1939Keeper of Manuscripts, New York Public Library
Randolph Greenfield Adams[26] 1940-1941Director, William L. Clements Library,University of Michigan[27]
1942-1943. Book collector, philanthropist, chairman, Friends Dartmouth College Library, Associate John Carter Brown Library, Council of Fellows, Pierpont Morgan Library; director, Friends Huntington Library; visiting committees Yale, Princeton, and Harvard, McGregor Library; fellow,California Historical Society; council, Grolier Club, trustee New York Historical Society, and president, American Antiquarian Society.[28]
Robert W. G. Vail [29] 1944-1945Librarian, American Antiquarian Society, 1930–1939; Director, New York Historical Society, 1944–1960. Editor, Bibliotheca Americana. [30]
William A. Jackson [31] [32] 1946-1947Director Harvard University, Houghton Library of Rare Books and Manuscripts,1942-1964;[33] Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society, 1965.[34] [35]
LeRoy E. Kimball[36] 1948- 1949New York University,comptroller; President of the Modern Language Association of America; President, New York Historical Society.[37]
James T. Babb [38] 1950-1952Director, Yale University Library; Selected books for the White House at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy[39]
Curt F. Bühler[40] [41] 1953 -1954
Lawrence Clark Powell1955University Librarian, UCLA Library, 1944- 1961, head librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1944–1966, author.[42]
John D. Gordan[43] 1956-1957
Donald F. Hyde[44] [45] 1958-1959 Bibliophile, attorney, President, Grolier Club.
Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr.[46] 1960-1961Director, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1948 - 1969; president, Grolier Club.
C. Waller Barrett[47] 1962-1963Bibliophile, shipping magnate, founder of the Barrett Library of American Literature at the University of Virginia, President American Antiquarian Society.[48]
Herman W. Liebert [49] 1964 -1965Librarian of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.Chairman of the Yale Edition, Works of Samuel Johnson, President of the Grolier Club.
Edwin Wolf II[50] 1966-1967Librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia,[51] author.[52]
Frederick R. Goff[53] 1968 -1969Chief of the Rare Book Division, Library of Congress, author [54] [55]
Robert H. Taylor[56] 1970- 1971Bibliophile,[57] Robert H. Taylor Collection, president, Grolier Club, the Keats-Shelley Association of America.
James J. Heslin [58] 1972-1973Director New York Historical Society,[59] author.[60] [61]
William H. Bond [62] 1974- 1975Librarian, Houghton Library Harvard University[63]
Stuart B. Schimmel* [64] 1976- 1977Book collector--"one of the great American collectors of the latter decades of the twentieth century".[65] The Stuart B. Schimmel Collection of the Book Arts[66] [67]
Thomas R. Adams[68] 1978-1980Librarian of John Carter Brown Library, curator Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania, author,[69] [70]
Marcus Allen McCorison [71] 1980-1984.Librarian, director and president American Antiquarian Society; Chief Rare Book Librarian, Dartmouth College;author [72] [73] [74]
G. Thomas Tanselle[75] 1985-1988.Professor University of Wisconsin; vice president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, scholar, bibliographer, and book collector.[76] [77]
Ruth Mortimer 1988-1992Curator Smith College rare books collection, named the Mortimer Rare Book Collection in her honor; curator Harvard University; author,[80] [81]
William P. Barlow Jr.[82] 1992-1996 Certified public accountant and partner at Barlow & Hughan, San Francisco, Master of the Press at the Roxburghe Club, faculty of the Rare Book School.[83] [84]
Roger E. Stoddard [85] 1996-2000Houghton Library, Harvard University curator of rare books[86] [87]
Hope Mayo, president during centenary of the BSA[88] 2004-2008Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, Harvard University.[89] [90] [91]
John Bidwell2004-2008Astor Curator and Department Head of Printed Books and Bindings, Morgan Library & Museum; Curator Graphic Arts Division, Princeton University Library; Librarian, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.[92] [93] [94]
John Neal Hoover [95] 2008-2011Head of Special Collections and Rare Book Librarian St. Louis Mercantile Library Association; author.[96] [97]
Claudia Funke2012-2014Avery Chief Curator, Huntington Library, Curator Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.[98]
Martin Antonetti 2015-2017Director Charles Deering Memorial Library of Special Collections and University Archives at Northwestern University Library; Curator of Rare Books, Smith College; Librarian and Director of the Grolier Club.[99] [100]
Barbara A Shailor 2018-2021Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University,author.[101]
Caroline Duroselle-Melish [102] 2022Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints Folger Shakespeare Library; Assistant Curator Houghton, Harvard University, author.[103] [104]
Kinohi Nishikawa, Princeton University 2024-Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University Professor of English and African American Studies, author[105] [106]

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