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Chairmen from 1895 - 1908 and Presidents from 1908 onwards.
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Past Presidents
2011 - 2020
2011 Honorary President Viki Lagus (South Tyneside Council)
2011 Past President & Acting Chair
2001 - 2010
2010 Jon Scown
2009 Maria Cotera (UCL)
2008 Amanda Quick
2007 Rowena Macrae-Gibson
2006 Isabel Hood (Semple Fraser)
2005 Tom Relph (South Tyneside Libraries)
2004 Joanna Ball (Cambridge)
2003 Ayub Khan (Birmingham)
2002 Tracy Long
2001 Anne Partridge (Cranfield University)
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1991 – 2000
2000 Liz Jolly (South Bank University)
1999 Jean Bennett (Engineering Employers Fed)
1998 Andrew Fripp (Gloucestershire)
1997 Pete Loewenstein (Nottingham Probation Service)
1996 Patsy Heap (Birmingham)
1995 Christine Wise (Fawcett Library)
1994 Nigel Ward (Nottingham)
1993 Linda Greenwood (Belfast)
1992 Avril Johnston (SCET)
1991 Jonathan Wilson (Newcastle-upon-Tyne Poly)
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1981 – 1990
1990 Roger Penny (Kirklees)
1989 M P Stone (Cambridgeshire)
1988 Carol Campbell-Hayes (Nottinghamshire)
1987 Alan Watkin
1986 Rona Aldrich
1985 Bob McKee (Solihull College of Technology)
1984 Jean Steward (University of East Anglia)
1983 Keith Crawshaw (Sheffield)
1982 Rob N Froud (Brent)
1981 Patrick Conway
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1971 – 1980
1980 W G Williams (Clwyd)
1979 J P S Luckett (Leeds)
1978 S J Eccles (Lancashire)
1977 P G Gill (Warwickshire)
1976 J M Pluse (Bradford)
1975 M C Head (Robert Gordon Institute)
1974 D R Bartlett (Loughborough)
1973 Miss E McNeil (Royal Inst of Chart Surveyors)
1972 Alan G White
1971 Ron J Edwards
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1961 – 1970
1970 Bill Davies
1969 Michael J. Ramsden
1968 FA (Sandy) Miller
1967 Graham Crowther
1966 Jean Plaister
1965 Tom Featherstone
1964 Jon Hoyle
1963 Ron G Surridge (Hornsey)
1962 William Godfrey Thompson (Manchester)
1961 W Howard Philips
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1960 Arthur C Jones
1959 E F Ferry (Derbyshire County Library)
1958 O S Tomlinson (Finchley)
1957 Miss E J Willson
1956 W Tynemouth
1955 JS Bristow
1954 J S Pasonage (Liverpool)
1953 C W Taylor (Sheffield)
1952 FA Sharr
1951 E A Clough
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1941 – 1950
1950 Frank C Tighe (Nottingham)
1949 Wilfred Pearson (Birmingham)
1948 E Cave (Blackpool)
1947 H W Marr (Sheffield)
1944 - 1946 Jack T Gillett (Leeds: Willesden)
1941 - 1943 Frank M Gardner (Luton)
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1931 – 1940
1940 (Oct – Dec) Frank M Gardner (Luton)
1940 (Jan - Sep) T I M Clulow (Leeds)
1939 A Lloyd Carver (Portsmouth)
1938 Arthur R Hewitt (Middle Temple)
1937 E Sellick (Cardiff)
1936 F Seymour Smith (Hornsey)
1934 - 1935 W E Hurford (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1933 - 1934 Elsie M Exley (St Marylebone)
1932 - 1933 W G Fry (Manchester)
1931 - 1932 Gurner P Jones (Stepney)
1930 - 1931 L Chubb (Birmingham)
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1921 – 1930
1929 - 1930 R Cooper (Battersea)
1928 - 1929 A Webb (Brighton)
1927 - 1928 George F Vale (Bethel Green)
1926 - 1927 G W Strother (Leeds)
1925 - 1926 Henry A Sharp (Croydon)
1924 - 1925 I Briggs (Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1923 - 1924 W H Parker (Hackney)
1922 - 1923 E C Wickens (Liverpool)
1921 - 1922 James D Stewart (Islington)
1920 - 1921 H M Cashmore (Birmingham)
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1908 – 1920
1919 - 1920 R F Bullen (Poplar)
1918 - 1919 Ethel Gerard (Worthing)
1917 - 1918 John Fredrick Hogg (Battersea)
1916 - 1917 James Ross (Liverpool)
1915 - 1916 Evan G Rees (Westminster)
1914 - 1915 Norman Treliving (Leeds)
1912 - 1914 Henry T Coutts (Islington)
1909 - 1912 W C Berwick Sayers (Croydon)
1908 - 1909 William Benson Thorne (Poplar)
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Chairmen
1906 - 1908 William Benson Thorne (Poplar)
1904 - 1906 William George Chambers (Woolwich)
1900 - 1904 Evan G Rees (Westminster)
1898 (Dec) - 1900 Henry Ogle (Hampstead)
1898 (Jul-Nov) Fredrick Meaden Roberts (St George, Hanover Square)
1896 - 1898 Alfred Henry Carter (St Martins)
1895 - 1896 Robert Alec Peddie (Gladstone Library, NLC)
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