1932, inclusive

Personal name, Meyer, Elizabeth S. Thies

Elizabeth Thies Meyer
Elizabeth S. Thies was trained at the Enoch Pratt Library in 1890. She was hired in 1893 as the first Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine librarian to care for books housed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Thies resigned her position in 1899 to work as a private librarian for Johns Hopkins gynecologist Howard Kelly. From 1908 to 1917, she worked along with her sister Frieda Thies at the Johns Hopkins University's library. She was hired as the first librarian and served as a library committee member of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health from 1918 until 1928. When the new William H. Welch Medical Library opened in 1928, she was appointed chief cataloger and classifier. Thies remained in that position until her retirement June 30, 1941. She was a charter member of the Medical Library Association at its founding in 1898 and was elected to an honorary membership in 1948. Thies married Arthur L. Meyer, assistant professor, in the School of Hygiene in 1930. , Librarian

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns hopkins Hospital, 1893-1899

private librarian to Howard Kelly, 1900-1907

Johns Hopkins University, 1908-1917

Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1918-1928

Johns Hopkins University William H. Welch Medical Library, 1928-1941

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