Officers and Directors (2025-26)

  • Janine Pollock, President

    Chief, Special Collections Division, Free Library of Philadelphia

  • Lynne Farrington, Vice President

    Director of Programs/Senior Curator, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

  • Francis W. Hoeber, Secretary

    Francis W. Hoeber, Secretary

    Independent Historian

  • Eric Pumroy, Treasurer

    Retired Director, Special Collections Department, Bryn Mawr College Library

Directors at Large

  • Kelsey Scouten Bates

    Kelsey Scouten Bates

    Director, Rosenbach Museum and Library

  • Will Fenton

    Will Fenton

    Senior Writer, CHOP Foundation

  • Rhiannon Knol

    Rhiannon Knol

    Bookseller, Bruce McKittrick Rare Books

  • David McKnight

    David McKnight

    Retired Director, Manuscripts/Curator, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

  • Steven Rothman

    Steven Rothman

    President Emeritus

  • James R. Voelkel

    James R. Voelkel

    Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Othmer Library, Science History Institute

 Past Officers

    • William Pepper (1893-1898)

    • Samuel W. Pennypacker (1898-1916)

    • Thomas L. Montgomery (1916-1922)

    • A.S.W. Rosenbach (1922-1952)

    • Lessing J. Rosenwald (1953-1964)

    • Robert E. Spiller (1964-1968) 

    • Emerson Greenaway (1968-1973)

    • George Allen (1973-1998)

    • Steven Rothman (1998-2024)

    • Harrison S. Morris (1893-1898)

    • John Ashhurst (1898-1932)

    • A.S.W. Rosenbach [ex officio] (1932-1952)

    • Julian P. Boyd (1939-1943)

    • M. Joseph McCosker (1953-1966)

    • Howell J. Heaney (1967-1978)

    • Thomas M. Whitehead (1979-2012)

    • Mark Darby (2013-2018)

    • Jackie Parascandola (2018-2022)

    • Zoe Abrams (2022-2025)

    • John P. Nicholson (1893-1894)

    • Carl Edelheim (1894-1895)

    • Francis H. Earp (1895-1898)

    • Thomas L. Montgomery (1898-1914)

    • John Thomson (1914-1916)

    • Clinton Rogers Woodruff (1916-1948)

    • John H. Powell (1948-1957)

    • Penrose R. Hoopes (1957-1967)

    • Howard H. Lewis (1967-1985)

    • Ellen Dunlap (1985-1992)

    • Jim Green (1992-2018)

    • Colleen Barrett (2018)

    • David Gary (2018-19)

    • Paul Bunting (2019-22)

    • Margery Sly (2022-2025)