Guy St. Clair

Who is Guy St. Clair?

Guy St. Clair is an American librarian and knowledge management professional. He founded the One-Person Librarian newsletter, coining the term "one-person librarian", now referred to as solo librarianship. He is a past-president of the Special Libraries Association. He was awarded SLA’s Professional Award in 1989 and was named to SLA's Hall of Fame in 2010. He is currently the president and consulting specialist for knowledge services for SMR International.

In addition to his work with SMR, International, Guy St. Clair is a lecturer and special adviser to the M.S. in Information and Knowledge Strategy program at Columbia University in New York, NY.

His book SLA at 100: From “Putting Knowledge to Work” to Building the Knowledge Culture. traces the history of the SLA. In the last two chapters and epilogue of the book, St. Clair offers his opinions and predictions about the role of specialized librarianship for the future, emphasizing the service-delivery connections between specialized librarianship and knowledge management.