Kenneth Kister

Kenneth Kister

Kenneth F. Kister (born November 3, 1935) is an academic, professor of library science and authority in the field of reference and information sources.

As an academic he taught in the 1960s on "Intellectual Freedom and Censorship". As an author, he edited Kister's Best Encyclopedias and Kister's Best Dictionaries, and has written on the history of librarianship.

He is also the biographer of influential librarian and editor Eric Moon.