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).

Publications

• "Foundations of a Theory of Bibliography." Library Quarterly 22, no 2 (1952): 125–137. With J. H. Shera.
• Shera, J. H. & Egan, M. E. (1953). "A review of the present state of librarianship and documentation." In S. C. Bradford, Documentation 2nd ed., London: Crosby Lockwood, pp 11–45.

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]