Louise Noëlle Malclès

[2] Louise Noëlle Malclès’ association with the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne lasted from 1928 until 1962, where she worked as a teacher and practitioner in the field of bibliography.

[1] Separate from the main reading room, it contained carefully curated bibliographic tools.

The room, which only accommodated twenty students, focused primarily on bibliographic and documentation needs, rather than general research.

The focus was on bibliographies, catalogs, indexes and abstracts, historical data, library resources and reviews of primary texts.

Especially notable is that Malclès conceived of and wrote almost the entirety of the text herself, which increased her reputation as expert in bibliographies.