WILKS,+John+Alexander

WILKS, John Alexander (1889-1968) University College London 1910-1954 (CL 1926) His substantial contribution to the success of his library's vast expansion included notable attention to its special collections. His evacuation of the library in 1939 and its successful return, as an entity, to the college's war-damaged building was a model for such exercises. A German scholar he was responsible for the chapter on Germany in the LA's 1938 //Survey of libraries//.