Jean Hagger

Jean Hagger (11 October 1917 – 16 July 2008) was an Australian librarian, professional educator in librarianship and indexer. She was the foundation Head of the Department of Librarianship at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Melbourne and the first female Head of Department in the same institution. She has been referred to as "a pioneer of education for librarianship in Australia".

Back in Australia she joined a committee set by the Victorian Branch of the Library Association of Australia to protest the State Library of Victoria's reduction of librarianship classes. The committee argued that, on the contrary, there should be an increase in the professional education of librarians in Australia. 1998: Life membership of Australian Society of Indexers due to her "contribution to the Society and to the profession of indexing" Librarianship For To-morrow's World, Melbourne: Ormond. Consolidated Index to the Checklists of Royal Commissions, Select Committees of Parliament and Boards of Inquiry, held in the Commonwealth of Australia Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, 1856-1960, Melbourne: Borchardt Library, La Trobe University, 1980 (Library Publications, 19). Joint authors: Tina Montanelli and D. H. Borchardt. AACOBS Documents Index, 1956-1981, Canberra, Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services (AACOBS), 1982. Taiwan: A Comprehensive Bibliography of English-Language Publications, Melbourne: Borchardt Library, La Trobe University, and New York: East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1984. Joint authors: J. Bruce Jacobs and Anne Sedgley. Online copy at Wayback Machine. Library Services for Australia : The Work of AACOBS. Index, Years 1956-70 to 1981-82, Canberra: Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services, 1985.

Indexes Indexes to each of the following books: "The Library Training School of the State Library of Victoria 1948-1962", Australian Academic and Research Libraries, 13, December 1982, 242. "Librarianship Courses and Australian Studies", Australian Historical Bibliography, July 1986, 42. "Filing is not as simple as ABC", Australian Society of Indexers Newsletter, 12, December 1988, 27.