John Duncan Cowley FLA (1897–20 August 1944[1]) was Director of the School of Librarianship of the University of London from 1934 to 1944 and was the Goldsmiths' Librarian in 1944.
Cowley is the author of A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digests, Dictionaries, and Indexes of English Law to the Year 1800, which was published by the Selden Society in London in 1932.
[3][4] The Use of Reference Material: An Introductory Manual for Librarianship Students and Assistants was published by Grafton in London in 1937,[5] and Training for Librarianship in the United States was published by the University of London in 1938.
[6] Bibliographical Description and Cataloguing was published in octavo in 1939 by Grafton in London.
[7] It was reprinted in 1970 as number 341 in the Burt Franklin bibliography and reference series.