King, David E. | The American Library Association Archives

Name: King, David E.

Historical Note: David E. King (d. 1998) was a Chicago area librarian. He served with the Peace Corp in the Philippines in the 1960s before coming to Chicago in 1964, working for the library at R.R. Donnelley & Sons in Chicago. Then he spent 27 years as a librarian for Standard Educational Corp. He represented Illinois as a delegate to the first White House Conference on Libraries and Information Sciences in 1979. He became the president of the Illinois chapter of the Special Libraries Association and was named a fellow of SLA in 1987. King died in 1998.

Sources: Meg McSherry Breslin, "DAVID E. KING; CO-AUTHORED GRAD SCHOOL LIBRARY TEXTBOOK," Chicago Tribune (September 2, 1998), https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-09-02-9809020100-story.html.

Note Author: Cara Bertram

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