Background
Kerr, Willis Holmes was born on June 26, 1880 in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David Ramsey and Martha Sharon (Hill) Kerr.
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Willis Holmes Kerr
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Bachelor of Arts, Bellevue (Nebraska) College, 1900. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1902. Studied University of Edinburgh, 1907-1908.
Seminar on Far Eastern Studies, International House, University of California (Berkeley), 1934.
Career
Registrar and instructor economics, Bellevue College, 1900-1904. Professor of English and librarian, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1904-1911. Librarian. Kellogg Library Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, 1911-1925.
Librarian, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1925-1931, and librarian.
Claremont Colleges, 1927-1948. Librarian emeritus and bibliographical consultant, from 1948 instructor Graduate Library School, University of Chicago, June-August 1938.
Life member American Library Association (council, 1913-1918, Chairman of Commission on education, 1915-1918, chairman publicity committee, 1915-1917, 1920-1923, commission on library revenues, 1923-1927, commission on fiftieth anniversary of American library association, 1923-1926. Member College Library Advisory Board, 1936-1938.
Member board on resources of America libraries, 1943-1948).
Member of Kansas Library Association (president 1922), California library association (president 1931-1932), National Education, Association (president library department, 1914-1924, Chairman of Commission on normal school libraries, 1919-1925). Director Associate College and Reference Libraries, 1943-1948. Chairman City Planning Commission.
Achievements
Membership
Member Phi Beta Kappa, American Philatelic Society, California library association (commission on co-operative projects, from 1948), Bibliography Society America. Bibliography Society (London), Zamorano.
Connections
Married Mary Wylie Nicholl, June 14, 1904 (died January 30, 1936). Married second, Virginia Dearborn Mertzke, June 12, 1938.
