About Wilfred L. Saunders
Lived 1920 – 2007 (aged 86–87). Wilfred L. Saunders was a British librarian.
Professor Wilfred Leonard Saunders (18 April 1920 – 27 July 2007) was a British librarian and the founding director of what became the University of Sheffield Information School.
Saunders was born on 18 April 1920 in Birmingham and joined Birmingham Reference Library as a library assistant in 1936, influenced by his elder sister who was a librarian.
He was appointed CBE in the 1982 New Year Honours, and was awarded an honorary Litt.D. by the University of Sheffield in 1989.
Saunders died on 27 July 2007 and was survived by his wife Joan and their two sons.
Selected publications , originally published 1989 by Birmingham Public Libraries, 1989 A guide to book lists and bibliographies for the use of school librarians (1956) compiled for the School Library Association by W.L. Saunders
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