AUSTIN,+Ethel+Winifred

AUSTIN, Ethel Winifred (1873-1918) CL Incorporated National Lending Library for the Blind, later National Library for the Blind 1906-1918 She built up what was in 1906 a small and un-influential library in London into the NLB, acquiring better premises and, with much CUKT help, better funding. Many smaller libraries for the blind were taken over and a Northern Branch established in Manchester.

Biog.: W A Munford 'Portrait of a woman librarian' //(LW,// LIX, //pp//166-170).

K. A. Manley, ‘ Austin, (Ethel) Winifred (1873–1918) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 24 Nov 2008 (Ethel) Winifred Austin (1873–1918): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72371