Walter Lewis Brown Explained

Walter Lewis Brown
Office:	President of the American Library Association
Term Start:	1916
Term End:	1917
Predecessor:	Mary Wright Plummer
Successor:	Thomas Lynch Montgomery
Birth Date:	4 January 1861
Nationality:	American
Occupation:	Librarian

Walter Lewis Brown (January 4, 1861 – October 16, 1931) was an American librarian. Brown served as president of the American Library Association from 1916 to 1917.^[1] Brown was instrumental in establishing a public library in Buffalo, New York, now the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library.^{[2] [3]} Brown led the American Library Association at the beginning of the first World War. In that role, Brown initiated a partnership between the American Library Association and the Library of Congress to create the ALA War Service Committee.^[4]

See also

• Buffalo and Erie County Public Library

External links

• Photograph: Walter L. Brown, President-elect of the American Library Association, 1916-17, Digital Collections, New York Public Library

Notes and References

1. Web site: ALA's Past Presidents. American Library Association. 10 February 2016.
2. Web site: Walter Lewis Brown, Buffalo Librarian. Library History Buff Blog. 10 February 2016.
3. Rooney, Paul M. (1978). "Walter Lewis Brown," pp. 65-66. In Dictionary of American Library Biography, eds. Bobinski. George S.; Jesse Hauk Shera and Bohdan S Wynar. 1978. Littleton Colo: Libraries Unlimited.
4. Book: Rosenberg. Jane Aiken. The Nation's Great Library. 1993. University of Illinois Press. 86–87.