Anna Cogswell Tyler

Anna Cogswell Tyler was an American librarian, storyteller, and author remembered for her role in early children's library work. Sources about her describe her as part of the movement that brought organized storytelling into public libraries, and note that she studied at the Carnegie Library Training School in Pittsburgh and the School of Library Science at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.

She is especially associated with storytelling for children and with training other librarians in that craft. Her published work includes Twenty-Four Unusual Stories for Boys and Girls, a collection that reflects the same love of imaginative, spoken storytelling that shaped her library career.

Although she is not as widely known today as some of her contemporaries, Tyler stands out as one of the early figures who helped make story hours and children's services an important part of public libraries in the United States.