Mary Lynette Larsgaard

Mary Lynette Larsgaard (1946-2017) was Librarian Emeritus of the UCSB Libraries, and was also formerly Assistant Head and then Head of the Map and Imagery Laboratory, Davidson Library, University of California at Santa Barbara. She published extensively in the field of cartographic resources in libraries, most notably Map Librarianship: An Introduction, now in its third edition. Her specialties were cataloging/metadata creation, and collection development and other aspects of twentieth-century and more recent topographic and geologic maps.