Phineas Lawrence Windsor

Phineas Lawrence Windsor (also Phineas L. Windsor ; born February 21, 1871 in Chenoa , McLean County , Illinois ; † September 2, 1965 in Urbana , Champaign County , Illinois) was an American librarian .

Life

Family and education

Phineas Lawrence Windsor, the son of the Minister of the Methodist Church Reverend John Alexander Windsor (1828-1912) and his first wife Amy Arnold Windsor (1840-1871), graduated in 1895 with a Bachelor of Philosophy from Northwestern University in Evanston . As a result, he completed his education in Albany from 1897 to 1899 at the New York State Library School and from 1899 to 1900 at the Albany Law School.

Phineas Lawrence Windsor married on January 1, 1902, of Lockport in the state of New York -born entomologist Margaret Fursman Boynton (1872-1944). This connection resulted in the daughters Margaret, Mary Francis and Elizabeth Arnold. Windsor, who held memberships in the Delta Tau Delta College Fraternity, the Methodist Church and the University Club of Urbana, died in Urbana in late summer 1965 at the age of 94.

Professional background

Phineas Lawrence Windsor took up his first position as an assistant at the New York State Library in 1899, in 1900 he moved to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. In 1903 Windsor followed a call as a librarian at the University of Texas in Austin . In 1909 he moved to Urbana in the same capacity at the University of Illinois , where he was also appointed director of the Library School . In addition, the 1940 emeritus lecturer from 1924 as Professor of Library Science .

Phineas Lawrence Windsor also held the position of Director of the Commercial Building & Loan Association from 1924 to 1949 , that of Director of the Free Public Library from 1936 to 1949 and that of Treasurer of the Wesley Foundation from 1940 to 1949 . From 1934 to 1949 he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Illinois State Library in Springfield .

Phineas Lawrence Windsor, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Columbia in 1939 , a member of the American Library Association , the Association of College and Reference Libraries , the American Association of School Librarians , the Illinois Library Association , the Bibliographical Society of America, and the American Historical Association , was one of the leading librarians in the United States of his time.

Publications

• Some American university libraries we should know, in: American libraries, 5th, Madison, 1916
• The Association of American Library Schools, in: Bulletin of the American Library Association, Volume 11, American Library Association, Chicago, July 1917, pp. 160-162.
• together with Frank Keller Walter: Summary of recommendations for a new library building at Iowa state college, Ames, Iowa, Minneapolis, 1922
• A central Illinois Methodist minister, 1857-1891. Read before a women's study group of Trinity Methodist Church of Urbana, Illinois, March, 1944, Urbana, 1959
• with Julia Bedford Ideson, Texas Library Association: Handbook of Texas libraries, Austin, Texas, 1904-1935
• University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus). Library School Association: Phineas L. Windsor lectures in librarianship, University of Illinois Press, Urbana
• Papers, 1890-1965, Archival Material: English

literature

• University of Texas: The University of Texas record, volume V, The University, Austin, Tex., 1904, p. 280.
• James Herbert Kelley: The alumni record of the University of Illinois, including historical sketch and annals of the university, and biographical data regarding members of the faculties and the boards of trustees, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1913, p. 771.
• Frank W. Scott, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus): The semi-centennial alumni record of the University of Illinois, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1918, p. 965.
• Who was who in America. : volume V, 1969-1973 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 790.
• Robert Bingham Downs, Illinois State Library: Guide to Illinois library resources, Published in cooperation with the Illinois State Library Association by the American Library Association, Chicago, 1974, p. 448.
• Elizabeth R. Cardman: Interior landscapes: personal perspectives on professional lives: the first generation of librarians at the Illinois Library School, 1893-1907, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, 1996, p. 228.
• Lillian Hoddeson : No boundaries: University of Illinois vignettes, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2004, pp. 21-27.

Web links

• Phineas Lawrence Windsor on Handbook of Texas Online
• Literature by and about Phineas Lawrence Windsor in the WorldCat bibliographic database