Kenneth Garside [SEP] conflict
Kenneth Garside
Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth Garside (1913–1983) was a librarian, information theorist and World War II British Intelligence Corps officer.
Born in Bradford in 1913, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Leeds University. He became an Assistant Librarian at Leeds University in 1937, before going to war in 1939. He was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1941, and served in the Headquarters, 21 Army Group, in 1945, where he was instrumental in establishing The Intelligence Library of the Control Commission for Germany in
of London between 1974 and 1978. He served on many public bodies connected with library, university and cultural work.
Garside devised the library classification systems still in use at Leeds University library and at UCL.
Publications.
Books, a selection:
- 1981. Library co-operation at a time of financial constraints / by Kenneth Garside London : LRCC,1981
- 1983. "Guide to the library resources of the University of London" / compiled by Kenneth Garside. [London] : University of London,