Stella Keenan

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 Information Services (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.

Works

Keenan wrote and edited a a number of reports 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.
• Aactive 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. Concise Dictionary of Library and Information Science 2nd ed. Author blurb.