Phyllis Allen Richmond (1921–6 October 1997) was a historian of science and librarian recognized for her work in classification and cataloging.
She studied at Western Reserve University where she received a bachelor's degree in history in 1942.
[3] She then worked at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
[1] Richmond returned to Western Reserve from 1952 to 1956 to study library science.
[1] From 1955 to 1969 she worked at the University of Rochester in various aspects of librarianship,[2] including computer-produced title-a-line book catalogs and serials lists, which were "leading edge projects for that time".