Lawrence Sidney Thompson (1916–1986) worked at the University of Kentucky as the Director of Libraries and as a faculty member in the classics department. He wrote extensively on the processes of printing and publication. Thompson also researched processes for cataloging materials, frequently corresponding with European colleagues.
He was director of the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky from 1948 to 1963.
He was the author of Human Skin, a paper on Anthropodermic bibliopegy.
References
- Seltzer, Greg. "Lawrence S. Thompson papers, 1914-1961". University of Kentucky Special Collections.
- Lawrence Thompson, ex-director of UK libraries, dies at age of 69. Herald-Leader. April 21, 1986. p. A-13 col. 3–5. Archived from the original on 2014-06-07.
- Thompson, Lawrence (April 1946). "Human Skin". Bulletin of the Medical Library Association. v.34(2) (2): 93–102. PMC 194573. PMID 16016722.
External links
- Lawrence S. Thompson at the Database of Classical Scholars