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Stella Keenan (1933?-2024) was a British librarian.

Life

Stella Keenan started her career in Liverpool where she worked in the public and university library services, 1950-1955. She gained an MPhil at Loughborough University.

Keenan was Librarian at Zinc Development Association, London, 1955-58; Indexer at the H.W. Wilson Co., New York, 1958-1964; Information specialist at the American Institute of Physics, New York, 1964-68; Executive Director of the National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Societies (NFAIS), Philadelphia, 1968-74; Lecturer 1974-1980, then Senior Lecturer, Department of Library and information Studies, Loughborough University, UK; and Secretary General of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) 1984-89. She died on November 25, 2024 at the age of 91.

Contributions

Keenan wrote and edited numerous reports, books, and journal articles.

Edited edited the "Target 2000" column for Online and CD-ROM Review, 1993.
Editor of Focus, the journal of the International Group of the Library Association (London) from 1999-2002.
Active in the New Quorndon Shakespeare Company at its foundation in 2002 and had a continuouous association with it as an actor, producer, and manager until her death.

Honors

Keenan was a Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, Associate of the Library Association (London) and Honorary Fellow of National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS).

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 ==Life==
-Stella Keenan started her career in Liverpool where she worked in the public and university library services, 1950-1955. She gained an MPhil at Loughborough University and was a Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, Associate of the Library Association and Honorary Fellow of NFAIS.
+Stella Keenan started her career in Liverpool where she worked in the public and university library services, 1950-1955. She gained an MPhil at Loughborough University.
+Keenan was Librarian at Zinc Development Association, London, 1955-58; Indexer at the H.W. Wilson Co., New York, 1958-1964; Information specialist at the American Institute of Physics, New York, 1964-68; Executive Director of the [[National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Societies]] (NFAIS), Philadelphia, 1968-74; Lecturer 1974-1980, then Senior Lecturer, Department of Library and information Studies, Loughborough University, UK; and Secretary General of the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) 1984-89. She died on November 25, 2024 at the age of 91.
+==Contributions==
+Keenan wrote and edited numerous reports, books, and journal articles.
+*Edited edited the "Target 2000" column for ''Online'' and ''CD-ROM Review'', 1993.
+*Editor of ''Focus'', the journal of the International Group of the Library Association (London) from 1999-2002.
+*Active in the New Quorndon Shakespeare Company at its foundation in 2002 and had a continuouous association with it as an actor, producer, and manager until her death.
+==Honors==
+Keenan was a Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, Associate of the Library Association (London) and Honorary Fellow of National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS).
+==Further Reading==
+*Stella Keenan (Author blurb). ''Concise Dictionary of Library and Information Science'' 2nd ed. München : K.G. Saur, 2000.
+*Stella Keenan. Life after ''Focus.'' ''Focus on International Library and Information Work'' 48, No. 1, 2017, p 4. [https://www.cilip.org.uk/media/bqon2msd/focus_481_march_2017.pdf]