Background
Jean Weihs was born on November 12, 1930 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the family of Walter Rowland and Greta (Miller) Northgrave.
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Jean Weihs was born on November 12, 1930 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, in the family of Walter Rowland and Greta (Miller) Northgrave.
Jean received Bachelor of Arts at Queen’s University in 1951. Then she studied at University of Toronto, where she earned Bachelor of Liberal Studies in 1953, and became a Specialist in School Librarianship in 1965.
In Jean's long career, Jean Weihs has worked in university, public, school, and special libraries as a reference librarian, a bibliographer, and a school librarian. However, most of her career has been involved in cataloguing, both as a practitioner and a teacher of librarians, library technicians, and school librarians in Canada and as a visiting professor in the United States. She represented the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing for nine years on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR, five of these as JSC Chair.
Jean has held 45 positions on national and international committees. Jean Weihs has written 19 books, 5 separately-published pamphlets/ documents, 14 chapters in books edited by others, and over 150 articles and book reviews in professional journals. She has been the recipient of thirteen national and international awards. Jean Weihs was one of the two people who developed the list of general material designations that appeared in AACR2.
On September 25, 1954, Jean married John Douglas Riddle, but he died on August 15, 1964. Then on January 25, 1975 she married a consulting engineer Harry Weihs. She has a son from the first marriage, John Cameron, and two stepsons, Frederick Harry and Ronald Carl.