Lillian Lewis Batchelor (November 17, 1907 – June 28, 1977) was an American librarian, known for her advocacy for the creation and proper staffing of elementary school libraries.

[1] These libraries were created, but were difficult to staff with trained librarians; Batchelor, through her work with Drexel University, created an internship program to educate school librarians, a position partially funded by the Philadelphia School District's Board of Education.

[1] Batchelor wanted librarians to look at books as "the gunpowder of the mind" to encourage and excite young people.

Designed to be useful to the non-specialist, this collection combined theory and practice to encourage schools to have enrichment activities for their gifted pupils.

[4] Batchelor was born in Camden, New Jersey to parents Albert Kirk and Estella May Lewis.