Obituaries

Pauline C. RamseyPentagon Librarian

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Pauline C. Ramsey, a longtime librarian who retired from the Pentagon in 1972, died Nov. 16 at Howard University Hospital. She was 91 and had inanition, or marked weakness.

Ms. Ramsey was born in Toledo. In 1935, when she was 19, she received a bachelor's degree in education from Ohio State University. She worked at the university's library from 1934 to 1940 and then received a second bachelor's degree in library science from Columbia University in 1941.

At Columbia, she worked at the Avery Architectural Library for a year and as a cataloguer at the university's library from 1941 to 1947. She was appointed associate of library science and was an instructor in library science in 1947. Her graduate work was declared "on par with master's degree" in 1949.

Later in 1947, she became the head of the catalogue department at Notre Dame University. A year later, she moved to the Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago. She was the head cataloguer and acquisitions librarian.

She moved to Washington in 1949 and was a librarian at several facilities, including the Army Medical Library the Navy's Bureau of Ships Library, the Army's Ordnance Technical Intelligence Agency Library and the Department of Commerce's Clearinghouse for Scientific and Technical Information.

She last worked at the Army Library at the Pentagon, from 1964 to 1972. She received a commendation for her superior performance from the Army Department in 1972.

She was the co-editor and translator for three volumes of "Poland in the British Parliament." She also was the co-compiler of the Library Handbook, which was prepared and printed at Notre Dame University.

She was an avid bridge player, loved to travel and was fluent in Polish, French, Spanish and Russian.

There are no immediate survivors.

-- Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb