Name Edith Ditmas Role Writer | Died 1986 | |
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Edith Margaret Robertson Ditmas (1896, Weston-super-Mare – 28 February 1986) was a British archivist, historian and writer. She is thought to have had an MA degree from the University of Oxford and was unmarried.
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Information services
Ditmas was an influential official of the British Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, whose journal she edited, and of its successor, ASLIB. As ASLIB general secretary in 1946, she called strongly at the Empire Scientific Conference for "a combination of government encouragement and private initiative" in developing specialized information services. This approach was to prevail.
Local history
Ditmas turned in retirement to writing guidebooks. Latterly she was resident for a long period at Benson, Oxfordshire, and completed a thorough history of it in 1918. This circulated in typescript and was published posthumously in 2009, with addenda of information on subsequent archaeological research and of early maps. The one surviving picture of Ditmas was taken on a Women's Institute outing, the WI being one of her abiding interests.