Edith Ditmas
Edith Margaret Robertson Ditmas (1896, Weston-super-Mare - 28 February 1986) was a British archivist, historian and writer. She is thought to have had an MA degree from the University of Oxford and was unmarried. Ditmas was an influential official of the British Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, whose journal she edited, and of its successor, ASLIB. As ASLIB general secretary in 1946, she called strongly at the Empire Scientific Conference for "a combination of government encouragement and private initiative" in developing specialized information services, an approach that was to prevail.
