# Kenneth Garside

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Lieutenant Colonel **Kenneth Garside** (1913 – 1983) was a librarian, information theorist and [World War II](/source/World_War_II) British [Intelligence Corps](/source/Intelligence_Corps_(United_Kingdom)) officer.

## Education and career

Born in [Bradford](/source/Bradford) in 1913, Garside was educated at [Bradford Grammar School](/source/Bradford_Grammar_School) and the [University of Leeds](/source/University_of_Leeds).[1] He became an Assistant Librarian at the University of Leeds in 1937, before going to war in 1939. He was commissioned into the [Intelligence Corps](/source/Intelligence_Corps_(United_Kingdom)) in 1941, and served in the Headquarters, 21 Army Group, in 1945, where he was instrumental in establishing The Intelligence Library of the [Control Commission for Germany](/source/Control_Commission_for_Germany_%E2%80%93_British_Element) in [Bad Oeynhausen](/source/Bad_Oeynhausen) (later moved to [Herford](/source/Herford)).[2]

After the war, he worked as deputy librarian at [University College London](/source/University_College_London), from 1945 to 1958; although he continued working with the British occupation in Germany, such as on the Enemy Publications (Requirements) Committee (EPCOM) - making German learned documents published during the war available to British academics. He became librarian at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London) in 1958, and remained there until 1974. He ended his professional career as [Goldsmiths](/source/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London)' librarian and director of Central Library Services in the [University of London](/source/University_of_London) between 1974 and 1978.[3] He was on many public bodies connected with library, university and cultural work.

Garside [devised the library classification systems](/source/Garside_classification) still in use at Leeds University library[4] and at [UCL](/source/Garside_classification).[5][6]

## Publications

Books, a selection:

- 1981. Library co-operation at a time of financial constraints / by Kenneth Garside London : LRCC,1981
- 1983. *Guide to the library resources of the University of London* / compiled by Kenneth Garside. [London] : University of London, Library Resources Co-ordinating Committee, 1983.

## References

1. Mutch & Kemsley, Rachel (2001). ["GARSIDE, Lt Col Kenneth (1913-1983)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120315183700/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=3093&inst_id=21&nv1=search&nv2=). *AIM25 collection description*. AIM25. Archived from [the original](http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=3093&inst_id=21&nv1=search&nv2=) on 15 March 2012. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

1. Garside, Kenneth (1948). "An intelligence library in Germany". *Journal of Documentation*. **3** (2): 99–106. [doi:10.1108/eb026112](https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026112). [ISSN 0022-0418](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0022-0418)

1. "Lieut-Col Kenneth Garside" [obituary]. *The Times*, Friday 9 December 1983, issue 61708, p.16 col.F.

1. John Salter (2008). ["Leeds University Library classification scheme"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110718164425/http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/200207/teams/413/leeds_university_library_classification_scheme). *Leeds University Library*. Archived from [the original](http://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/200207/teams/413/leeds_university_library_classification_scheme) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 8 December 2010.

1. Garside, Kenneth (1955). "The basic principles of the new library classification at University College London". *Journal of Documentation*. **10** (4): 169–192. [doi:10.1108/eb026207](https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026207). [ISSN 0022-0418](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0022-0418)

1. ["Garside classification scheme"](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/subject-support/garside/#top). *UCL Library Services*. 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2015.

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