John Edmands

John Edmands

John Edmands (1 February 1820 - 1915) was an American librarian who was responsible for innovations in filing methodologies and inspired Poole's guide to periodical literature.

He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, graduated from Yale College in 1847, and taught at Rocky Mount, North Carolina for a year before resuming study at Yale Divinity School from 1848 to 1851. He was librarian for the Yale Debating Society, Brothers in Unity from 1846 to 1847 and was assistant in the Yale College library from 1851 to 1856. He was followed in that position by William Frederick Poole, who developed Edmands's "Subjects for Debates with Reference to Authorities" into "Poole's Index to Periodical Literature".

In 1856 Edmands became chief librarian of the Mercantile Library at Philadelphia.


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