Elizabeth Futas

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Nationality American Occupation librarian		Name Elizabeth Futas Role Library cataloguer
Born May 8, 1944 ( 1944-05-08 ) Cause of death Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Education Brooklyn College, University of Minnesota, Rutgers University Died 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Books Developing Public Library Collections, Policies, and Procedures: A How-to-do-it Manual for Small and Medium-sized Public Libraries

Elizabeth Dorothy Futas (May 8, 1944–February 6, 1995) was the head of the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 1986–1995. Earlier in her career, Dr. Futas worked as a cataloger for the Ford Foundation in New York and as a reference librarian at Queens College. She had also held faculty positions at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Emory University and the University of Washington in Seattle, among other institutions. Her text on Collection Development is widely regarded.

The American Library Association offers an annual award to librarians in Futas' name.

Works

Collection Development Policies and Procedures. (1995) Oryx Press, ISBN 0897747976

Developing public library collections, policies, and procedures : a how-to-do-it manual for small and medium-sized public libraries. Neal-Shuman (1991) ISBN 1555700608

Library Acquisition Policies and Procedures. (1984) Oryx Press, ISBN 0897740246

The Library Forms Illustrated Handbook. (1984) Neal-Schuman, ISBN 0918212693

Dissertation: Communication and information patterns in the emerging, interdisciplinary area of women's studies. Rutgers University (1980)

References

Elizabeth Futas Wikipedia

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