Edwin Truman Coman Jr.

Background

Edwin Truman Coman was born on 18th May 1903, in Colfax, Washington, United States.

Career

Coman Jr. was the director of the Claremont College Library, and an assistant professor of business history at Stanford University. Later on, he would become the first university librarian at the University of California which is a position he would hold for fourteen years. He resigned from this job in 1965 and moved to San Diego and became a consultant to the Fine Arts Society Library, and to the Ruben E. Fleet Theater and Space Center.

He wrote four books on business and Libary science.

Achievements

• During his fourteen-Years at UCR Coman created a collection of 300,000 volumes of research

Works

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  • Time, Tide, and Timber;: A Century of Pope & Talbot 1978
  • A study of China's principal agricultural exports 1934
  • Library service to business, science and industry: A report 1966
  • The status of business history at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1946
  • Sources of business information, (University of California bibliographic guides) 1964

Membership

Being active in professional organizations he served as president of the California Library Association and on the executive board of the American Library Association.

• California Library Association

• American Library Association