LYSTER,+Thomas+William

LYSTER, Thomas William (1855-1922) National Library of Ireland 1878-1920 (CL 1895) A friendly, bookish librarian but with keen interest in close classification and adequate cataloguing, he is likely to be remembered in particular for having suggested in 1913 a British subject index to periodicals. The first subject lists were published, under LA auspices, in the //Athenaeum// two years later, thus beginning the //Subject index to periodicals,// forerunner of //British humanities// and //British technology indexes//.

Patricia Donlon, ‘ Lyster, Thomas William (1855–1922) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Nov 2009