Mayden, Priscilla M., M.L.S.

Priscilla Maltby Mayden was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts in 1918. Ms Mayden received her B.S. from Simmons College in 1941 and her M.S. in Library Science from Columbia University in 1967. She was Hospital Librarian in the Women's Army Corps, USAF Redistribution Center, Santa Ana, California from 1944-1946. Ms Mayden was Chief Librarian at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts from 1946-1952. Ms Mayden was Chief Librarian at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1952-1966. Ms Mayden came to the University as the Medical Sciences Librarian and Director of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library 1966-1984. Ms. Mayden was a member of the Medical Library Association Board of Directors, 1975-1978 and became a Fellow in the Association in 1983. Ms Mayden was Chair of the Utah Academic Library Consortium, 1972-1973 and President of the Utah Library Association, 1961-1962. Ms Mayden died in 2011. The portrait of Ms Mayden was painted by Paul Howard Davis in 1995 and is located on the west wall on the upper level of the Eccles Health Sciences Library.