Patricia Meyer Battin (June 2, 1929 – April 22, 2019)[1] was one of the first librarians in the United States to combine the responsibilities of library administrator and technology director.
Patricia Battin was born to Emanuel Albert and Josephine (Lehman) Meyer on June 2, 1929, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
[8] In 1994, Battin retired from the CPA[9] and accepted a position at Emory University, where she became the planning director for the three-year Virtual Library Project.
[10] The same year, Battin submitted a written statement on the FY-1996 Appropriation for the National Endowment for the Humanities to the U.S. House of Representatives' Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies (Committee on Appropriations) celebrating the successes of NEH's preservation activities and asking Congress to continue funding this work.
"[13][14] The next year, the Frye Leadership Institute was formed through a collaboration among the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), EDUCAUSE and Emory University.
[15] The Patricia M. Battin Scholarship was created to provide tuition assistance for individuals whose institutions lack funding, and its purpose is to "foster ethnic, racial, and gender diversity, as well as diversity in professional and scholarly background or type of institution.