{{Infobox person | name = John Bruce Howell | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|06|17}} | birth_place = Greensburg, Pennsylvania | death_date = {{Death date and age|1997|02|28|1941|06|17}} | death_place = Iowa City, Iowa | other_names = | known_for = |alma_mater=University of Michigan | occupation = Librarian and bibliographer }} '''John Bruce Howell''' (June 17, 1941 &ndash; February 28, 1997)<ref>Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.</ref> was an American librarian and bibliographer. He was Africana and International Studies Bibliographer at the University of Iowa Libraries, a profilfic bibliographic author, and "a national leader in Africana librarianship".<ref name=Caruso>Joseph Caruso, [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-africa&month=9703&week=d&msg=pWXgKKTvA71ukuIkEBJcqQ&user=&pw OBITUARY: John Bruce Howell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305010102/http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-africa&month=9703&week=d&msg=pWXgKKTvA71ukuIkEBJcqQ&user=&pw |date=2016-03-05 }}, 24 March 1997</ref>

==Life== Howell gained his B.A. from Columbia University in 1965 and an M.A. in library science from the University of Michigan the following year. Between 1969 and 1980 he held various positions at the Library of Congress. In 1984 he completed a PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and he joined the University of Iowa in 1985.<ref name=Caruso/>

==Works== * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015026924038 East African Community: subject guide to official publications]'', (Library of Congress, 1976) * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015034732449 Tanganyika African National Union: a guide to publications by and about TANU]'', (Library of Congress, 1976) * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015031770590 Kenya: subject guide to official publications]'', (Library of Congress, 1978) * ''[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015011948356 Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi Party, 1957-1977: a bibliography]'', (Library of Congress, 1978) * ''Style manuals of the English-speaking world: a guide'', 1983 {{ISBN|0897740890}} * ''A history of the Dublin Library Society, 1791-1881'', 1985 {{ISBN|077030172X}} * ''Third World/Iowa: books, journals, maps, and microforms about 138 developing countries acquired by the University of Iowa Libraries, 1980-1986'', 1987 {{ISBN|0874140544}} * ''Rural health in Kenya: a guide to the literature'', 1988 {{ISBN|0874140668}} * ''Index to the African studies review/bulletin and the ASA review of books, 1958-1990'', 1991 {{ISBN|0918456665}} * ''Guides, collections, and ancillary materials to African archival resources in the United States'', 1996 {{ISBN|0942615328}}

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