Mary Florence Wilson

Wilson was educated at Gibson's College Preparatory School in Philadelphia, and wanted to become a social worker, but due to her delicate health could not obtain permission from her father.

[1] Due to her work with the American Peace Commission, Wilson was "asked to organize library of the new League of Nations" (p. 110).

[2] As Chief of Section, she oversaw a substantial division on the League: between 1921 and 1922, her yearly budget for acquisition of books was $40,000 and she supervised 13 highly qualified librarians.

Her role in establishing the organization of the League of Nations Library meant she was responsible for the standardizing text references in a way that was accessible to a large international body.

After researching multiple European and international libraries, she settled on the Dewey system of referencing, favoring its internationalist appeal for the League.

As a part of this work, she travelled to Yugoslavia, Romania, Greece and Turkey in 1928, in which year her analysis of the Covenant of the League of Nations and the process of its creation was published.