Beverly P. Lynch

Beverly P. Lynch is an American scholar, professor, librarian, and administrator. She was president of the American Library Association from 1985 to 1986. She is currently Professor Emerita at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.

Education Lynch earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, a Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career Lynch was executive director of the Association of College and Research Libraries from 1972 to 1977. She was the university librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1977 to 1989.

From 2000 to 2001 she took leave from UCLA to lead the Center for Research Libraries.

Returning to UCLA she became the first director of UCLA's California Rare Book School.

She served as president of the American Library Association from 1985 to 1986.

Awards and legacy Lynch was known for developing and publishing long-term strategies for librarian education, as well as writing about change management in academic libraries and libraries as organizations.

In 1987, she was honored as a distinguished alumna by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received a similar honor in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Selected publications