Betts, Beverly Robinson

(1827–1899)

also known as Beverley Robinson Betts

clergyman and librarian

Biographical information

“stereotypical early-nineteenth-century academic librarian” at Columbia; replaced by Dewey (Wayne A. Wiegand, Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey (1996) 78; “History records few if any favorable comments on Betts as a person and his years as librarian” (Arthur Hamlin, The University Library in the United States: Its Origins and Development (1981) 33).

Gender

M

Notes

“Beverley R. Betts” and “B. R. Betts” from NQ 5.1.188 to 7.4.256

Articles

Writing as B. R. B.