John Bruce Howell (June 17, 1941 – February 28, 1997)[1] was an American librarian and bibliographer.
He was Africana and International Studies Bibliographer at the University of Iowa Libraries, a profilfic bibliographic author, and "a national leader in Africana librarianship".
in library science from the University of Michigan the following year.
Between 1969 and 1980 he held various positions at the Library of Congress.
In 1984 he completed a PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and he joined the University of Iowa in 1985.