{{short description|American librarian}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Elizabeth W. Stone |image=ElizabethWStone.png | office = President of the American Library Association | term_start = 1981 | term_end = 1982 | predecessor = Peggy Sullivan | successor = Carol A. Nemeyer | birth_date = {{Birth date|1918|06|21}} | birth_place = Dayton, Ohio, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|03|06|1918|06|21}} | death_place = Washington, D.C., US | occupation = Librarian | alma_mater = American University }}
'''Elizabeth W. Stone''' (June 21, 1918 – March 6, 2002)<ref>Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. </ref> was an American librarian and educator and president of the American Library Association from 1981 to 1982.<ref>{{cite web|title=ALA's Past Presidents|url=http://www.ala.org/aboutala/history/past|website=American Library Association|date=20 November 2007|access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> In 1986 she was honored with the Joseph W. Lippincott Award.In 1988 she was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership.<ref>American Library Association. [http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/awards/176/all_years Honorary Membership].</ref> In 1998 she was honored with the Beta Phi Mu Award for distinguished service to education for librarianship.
== Education == Stone received her master's degree in library science in 1961 from the Catholic University of America. She joined the faculty of the Catholic University of America that same year. She went on to get her doctorate in public administration from the American University in 1968 and was named chair of Catholic University's Department of Library Science in 1972. The department became a School of Library and Information Science in 1981 and she retired in 1983.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture Series|url=http://lis.cua.edu/people/stonelecture.cfm|website=CUA Department of Library and Information Science|access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=In Memorium|url=http://www.dcla.org/InMemoriam|website=District of Columbia Library Association|access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref> The Dr. Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture series was established in 1991 for her service to the school and the library profession.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://lis.catholic.edu/news-events/stone-lecture/index.html | title = Dr. Elizabeth W. Stone Lecture Series | website = Department of Information Sciences | publisher = The Catholic University of America | access-date = February 15, 2026 }}</ref>
== Career == Stone developed a plan for continuing library and information science education for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.<ref>Stone, Elizabeth Wm, Ruth J Patrick, Barbara Conroy, and United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. 1974. ''Continuing Library and Information Science Education Project : Final Report to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.'' Washington: Graduate Dept. of Library Science Catholic University of America.</ref> She proposed establishment of a Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange (CLENE). This was incorporated in 1975.<ref>Vaillancourt, Pauline M., and P. M. Vaillancourt. “Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange.” ''Special Libraries'' 67 (April 2, 1976): 208–16.</ref> In 1982 a proposal to move CLENE to the American Library Association was presented and deferred.<ref>Nelson, Milo G. 1982. “Making a Clean Getaway.” ''Wilson Library Bulletin'' 57 (September): 7.</ref> Within the American Library Association a Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table (CLENERT) was established in 1984.<ref>[https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ala/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=7607 Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Archives], 1975-94, 1997-2004. The American Library Association Archives.</ref> In 1985, Stone sponsored the first World Conference on Continuing Professional Education for the Library and Information Professions immediately before the Chicago Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). As a result of this meeting, the Continuing Professional Education Round Table (CPERT) of IFLA was established.<ref> Varlejs, Jana, Blanche Woolls, and Brooke Sheldon. 2003. “In Appreciation of Betty Stone, Continuing Education Advocate.” ''Journal of Education for Library & Information Science'' 44 (1): 69–71.</ref> ==Later life== After retirement, Stone continued to be an advocate for continuing education of librarians.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Stone|first1=Elizabeth W.|title=The Growth of Continuing Education|journal=Library Trends|date=Winter 1986|pages=489–513|url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/7439/librarytrendsv34i3i_opt.pdf?sequence=1|access-date=15 March 2016}}</ref>
She served as the librarian and archivist of the National Presbyterian Church where her husband had been a minister for 25 years.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former Catholic University SLIS Dean Elizabeth Stone Dies|url=http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/former-catholic-university-slis-dean-elizabeth-stone-dies/|website=American Libraries|access-date=15 March 2016|date=March 11, 2002|archive-date=17 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317112213/http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/former-catholic-university-slis-dean-elizabeth-stone-dies/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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