Background
Kilgour, Frederick Gridley was born on January 6, 1914 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Francis and Lillian Bess (Piper) Kilgour.
(1960 Yale University Press. 8vo., 74pp., hardcover. Signe...)
1960 Yale University Press. 8vo., 74pp., hardcover. Signed presentation copy from Kilgour. Good, light soiling on cover, no DJ.
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Kilgour, Frederick Gridley was born on January 6, 1914 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Edward Francis and Lillian Bess (Piper) Kilgour.
AB, Harvard University, 1935. Student, Columbia School Library Service, 1941. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Marietta College, 1980.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), College of Wooster, 1981. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ohio State University, 1980. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Denison University, 1983.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Missouri, Kansas City, 1989.
Staff, Harvard College Library, 1935-1942; Staff, Office of Strategic Services, 1942-1945; deputy director office of intelligence collection and dissemination, unites states department State, 1946-1948; librarian, Yale Medical Library, 1948-1965; associate librarian for research and development, Yale University Library, 1965-1967; managing editor, Yale Journal Biology and Medicine, 1949-1965; lecturer in history of science, Yale University, 1950-1959; lecturer history of technical, Yale University, 1961-1967; fellow, Davenport College, 1950-1967; president, executive director Online Computer Library Center,, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1967-1980; vice chairman of the board of trustees Online Computer Library Center,, Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1981-1983; founder trustee, Online Computer Library. Center, since 1984; Distinguished research professor, U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1990.
(1960 Yale University Press. 8vo., 74pp., hardcover. Signe...)
Served as Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1945, overseas duty. Member American Library Association, American Society Information Science (Merit award 1979), Society for History ofTech.
Married Eleanor Margaret Beach, September 3, 1940. Children: Christopher Beach, Martha, Alison, Meredith.