William Charles Berwick Sayers (1881–1960) was a British librarian and teacher.
[4] In 1896 Sayers began as a junior assistant at the Bournemouth Public Library and in 1904 he was appointed as deputy librarian, working under principal librarian Stanley Jast, at the Public Library in Croydon which then a small country town near south London.
He made every library an arts centre with a "programme of lectures, recitals and exhibitions".
He was successful in convincing the local council to provide a generous budget and his libraries gained an international reputation for their high standards.
[1] After the Second World War, during which he had been badly injured while serving as a Civil Defence controller, he retired from the Croydon Public Libraries.