Edith Margaret Robertson Ditmas (1896 –28 February 1986) was an English archivist,historian and writer.
Ditmas was born in Weston-super-Mare in 1896. She studied English Language and Literature at Lady Margaret Hall,Oxford,and received a Second Class Honours degree [1] and also a master of arts degree from the University of Oxford. [2]
She was an influential official of the British Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux,whose journal she edited. As general secretary of what became the Association for Information Management (ASLIB) in 1946–1950,she called strongly at the Empire Scientific Conference for "a combination of government encouragement and private initiative" in developing specialized information services. This approach was to prevail. [3] She also took over the editorship of the Journal of Documentation from 1947 until 1962. [4]
In retirement,Ditmas turned to writing guidebooks. For a long period,she was a resident of Benson,Oxfordshire,and completed a thorough history of it in 1918. This circulated in typescript and was published posthumously in 2009,with addenda of information on subsequent archaeological research and of early maps. [5] The one surviving picture of Ditmas was taken on a Women's Institute outing,the WI being one of her abiding interests. [6]
Edith Ditmas died on 28 February 1986.
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