Margaret Egan

Margaret Egan (1905-1959) was an American scholar and librarian.

Contributions

The concept of social epistemology was developed in a paper co-authored by Margaret Egan and Jesse Shera. Shera, who is widely associated with social epistemology, explicitly attributed both the term and the concept to Egan (Shera (1978, 159).

Further reading

• Shera, J. H. "Egan, Margaret Elizabeth (1905-1959)" Dictionary of American library biography, ed. by Bohdan S. Wynar. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1978, pp 158-159.
• Furner, Jonathan. "'A brilliant mind': Margaret Egan and social epistemology." Library Trends 52, no 4 (Spring 2004): 792-809. [1]