Professor Bill Tyler who held the first Chair of
Librarianship in the UK at Strathclyde University (Irwin's was a personal
professorship) has died at the age of 90. He became Head of the Scottish School
of Librarianship at the Scottish College of Commerce in Glasgow moving with it
when it became part of the newly formed University of Strathclyde in 1964. He
was President of the Scottish Library Association in 1970.
An obituary appeared in The Herald on
28 July 2011.
Toni Bunch
