Katharine Twining Moody

Katharine Twining Moody was an American writer and compiler in the field of library science, born in 1867 and deceased in 1950. The clearest records available online identify her as the author of Index to Library Reports, published in 1913 by the American Library Association Publishing Board, a substantial reference work covering library reports from the United States and Canada.

Other works associated with her include The Library Within the Walls (1929), a collection of articles and addresses she selected and annotated, and Genealogical Material in the St. Louis Public Library. Together, these books suggest a career centered on bibliography, reference work, and the practical systems that helped libraries guide readers and researchers.

Although detailed biographical information about her life is scarce in the sources readily available online, her published work still gives a strong sense of her contribution. She belongs to the generation of librarians and reference specialists who made large bodies of information findable long before digital search, and her books remain of interest to library historians, genealogists, and readers curious about the craft of organizing knowledge.