Background
Shaw, Charles Bunsen was born on June 5, 1894 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Hubert Grover and Elizabeth Ann (De Quedville) Shaw.
Shaw, Charles Bunsen was born on June 5, 1894 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Hubert Grover and Elizabeth Ann (De Quedville) Shaw.
Bachelor of Arts, Clark University, 1914, Master of Arts, 1915, Doctor of Humane Letters, 1947. New York State Library School, Albany, 1919-1920.
Instructor English University Maine, 1916-1917, Goucher College, 1917-1918. Associate professor English, Woman’s College of University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1918-1919. Director extension division, 1922-1924, librarian, same, 1920-1927.
Librarian Swarthmore College since 1927.
Instructor School of Library Service, Columbia, summer 1930. Department of library science.
University of Michigan, summers 1932-1938, 1940-1941, and 1946-1961, lecturer Drexel Institute, spring terms, 1937-1957. Founder of the Office-hand Press, 1958.
Consultant Carnegie Corporation.
Advisory Group on College Libraries. Survey Chinese College and university libraries in China under auspices United Board for Christian Colleges in China as adviser on university library problems, 1947-1948. President Swarthmore Public Library Board, 1943-1948.
Life member American Library Association (chairman editorial committee 1931-1933).
Member Colonel Library Advisory Board 1933-1936. Member Association Colleges Reference Libraries (vice president 1942-1943.
President 1943-1944). Member Pennsylvania library association (vice president 1937-1938), Philadelphia Metropolitan Library Council (president 1941-1942), Bibliographical Society America, North Carolina library association (ex-president), American Association University professors.
Fellow American Geographic Society.
Member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Philadelphia Graphic Arts Forum (president 1955). Compiler: Reading List of Biographies, 1922. Arm Chair Travels, 1924.
American Painters, 1927.
List of Books for College Libraries, 1931, Supplement, 1931-1938, 1940. Editor of book of America Essays for Mentor Books, 1947, 55.
Contributor to literature and professional journals.
Club: Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Married Dorothy Joslyn, June 25, 1918. Children: Robert Joslyn, Charles R., Dorothy (Mistress H. J. Lemay).