Pamela W. Darling (born August 31, 1943) was an American library preservation specialist.
She urged the library profession to make preservation a priority "in which organization and cooperation are essential: standards-making, professional education, policy development, influencing legislation..."[1] She also declared that preservation is the responsibility and duty of all library staff and anyone having to do with books, from publishers to users.
[2] As the preservation specialist for the Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies in 1980, Pamela Darling helped develop and test planning procedures for academic libraries to identify preservation problem areas and what to do about them.
[3] Darling's work enabled academic libraries to establish or add to preservation programs without having to invent their own plan.
She became the Preservation Specialist for the Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies in 1981.