Russell Shank (September 2, 1925 – June 26, 2012) was an American librarian.

[1] In 1977, he was named chief librarian at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) until he retired from that position in 1989.

Shank was also a professor emeritus in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

[4] Shank was instrumental in forming FEDLINK (the Federal Library and Information Network) and advocated to make Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights part of the American Library Association's policy.

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