Sydney B. Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian librarian
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Sydney B. Mitchell
- Sydney Bancroft Mitchell (June 24, 1878 – September 22, 1951) was a Canadian librarian, teacher and gardener, though he spent most of his career in the United States.
- He was named one of the one hundred most important leaders in Library Science by the American Libraries journal in 1999.Sydney Mitchell was much more than a librarian and more than the founder of one of the first Masters in Library Science degree programs in the early part of the twentieth century.
- His love of his hobby, gardening, motivated him to advocate the importance of not focusing only on one’s career.
- He is remembered in the field of horticulture just as much as in the profession of librarianship.
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