Jean Whyte AM (1923–2003) was the foundation professor of the Graduate School of Librarianship at Monash University.
[6] Her parents were Ernest Primrose (Prim) Whyte and Kitty Macully and she spent the first ten years of her life on a sheep station north of Port Augusta, South Australia.
Despite parental opposition who "did not believe in higher education for girls",[5] she stayed in Adelaide at the end of her high school studies and began working in the Public Library of South Australia (now known as the State Library of South Australia) while studying part time at the University of Adelaide.
[1] During the years 1959-1972 she worked in Sydney University's Fisher Library, where in 1966 she was appointed as the Associate Librarian (Reader Services).
[1] In 1988 she retired from Monash as a Professor Emeritus[2] and in the years 1981-1987 she served as a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia.