Paul North Rice
| Paul North Rice | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 9, 1888 Lowell, Massachusetts |
| Died |
April 16, 1967 (aged 79) Middletown, Connecticut |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
| Occupation | Librarian |
Paul North Rice (February 9, 1888 – April 16, 1967) was an American librarian who served as Chief of the Reference Department of the New York Public Library, Executive Secretary of the Association of Research Libraries and President of the American Library Association.
He was born in 1888 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Charles Francis Rice and Miriam Owen Jacobs. His father was a minister, and his grandfather William Rice had been a minister and a librarian. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1910, where he was a member of the Eclectic Society and Phi Beta Kappa. He then studied at the New York State Library School in Albany, NY. In 1935, he received an honorary Master of Arts from Wesleyan.
Rice was a reference assistant in the Ohio State University Library from 1911-1913. He worked as a reference assistant at the New York Public Library from 1914-1917 where he was treasurer of the New York Library Association from 1916-1917. He served from Private to Second Lieutenant the United States Army, from 1917-1919. He was a lecturer in the New York Library School from 1919-1920, before becoming Chief of the NYPL Accessions Division in 1920. He served as Chief of the NYPL Preparation Division from 1920-1927.
He was president of the Dayton Public Library from 1927-1936, and President of the Ohio Library Association from 1930-31. While in Dayton, he corresponded with W. E. B. Dubois about his magazine, The Crisis. Rice served as Director of New York University Libraries from 1936-1938.
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