Beverly P. Lynch

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in English and music from North Dakota State University, an Masters of Science degree in library sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

She was the University Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1977 to 1989. She later became dean of the University of California Los Angeles's (UCLA) School of Library and Information Science.

She served as President of the American Library Association from 1985 to 1986.

In 1987, she was honored as a distinguished alumna by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received a similar honor in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

She was awarded the Melvil Dewey Medal from the American Library Association in 2012.