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Katharine Twining Moody

1867–1950

A librarian and reference specialist, she is remembered for practical guides that helped readers and researchers navigate library collections more easily. Her work ranges from a major 1913 index of library reports to writing on genealogical resources and editing historical material in St. Louis.

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Index to Library Reports

Index to Library Reports

by Katharine Twining Moody

About the author

Katharine Twining Moody (1867–1950) was an American librarian, bibliographer, and historical editor. Catalog and library records connected with her work show that she compiled Index to Library Reports in 1913, a reference book published by the American Library Association that gathered useful material from library reports in the United States and Canada.

Her interests clearly extended beyond library administration. She also wrote Genealogical Material in the St. Louis Public Library, where she is identified as a reference librarian, and later assembled The Library Within the Walls, a 1929 collection of articles and addresses. These works suggest a writer deeply interested in helping ordinary readers, scholars, and family historians find their way through complicated sources.

Moody also appears in Missouri historical records as the editor and historian for the Register of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Missouri, published in Saint Louis in 1932, with a 1940 supplement noting her as historian. I couldn't confirm a reliable portrait from the sources I found, so no profile image is included.