Enid Evans

Enid Annie Evans (8 October 1914 – 23 May 2011) was one of New Zealand's first women chief librarians. She was the chief librarian of the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library from 1946 to 1970.

Biography

Early life Evans was born in Gore, New Zealand, on 8 October 1914 to Robert Edward Evans and Annie Evans (née Shaw). Her father was a Presbyterian minister and in 1916 the family moved to Dunedin, as he had been transferred to North East Valley. Evans attended North East Valley School until 1926 when the family moved again, to Hāwera, Taranaki. She then attended Hawera Main School and Hawera High School. In 1932 Evans' father was appointed minister at Mount Albert Presbyterian Church in Auckland, and the family moved one more time.

Evans worked to enable easier access to the library collection for researchers by manually indexing early colonial newspapers and letters and manuscripts of early missionaries and other settlers. and in the 1989 New Year Honours, Evans was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.

Evans died in 2011, aged 96.