Gilbert Harry Doane
-Photo: Nebraskana;
edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin and Robert Morton Baldwin.
Hebron NE: The Baldwin Co., 1932, p. 332, b. 1-28-1897, Fairfield VT, d. Mar 1980
Gilbert H. Doane was librarian at the University of Nebraska Library when the Commission was decommissioned in 1933. The offices of the Commission were moved to the University and continued to function under his sponsorship, although it was in name only.
Doane came from a Vermont background that included a teacher, a minister and a proprietor of a farm. His family had Mayflower connections and one relative was hung as a witch in Connecticut.
Doane served as librarian at many university libraries and worked in the New York State Library before coming to Nebraska in 1925. He was a member of the Commission Board by virtue of his position, prior to the dissolving of the Commission. He was a member of the American Library Association and served as the president of the Nebraska Library Association in 1930.
He had many varied interests including genealogy, reading, and book collecting. He wrote The Legend of the Book, Searching for Your Ancestors, and About Collecting Bookplates. He contributed articles to a number of periodicals.
Nebraskana; edited by Sara Mullin Baldwin and Robert Morton Baldwin. Hebron NE: The Baldwin Co., 1932. p. 331-333.
Who's Who in Library Service, 2nd ed. C.C. Williams, editor and Alice L. Jewett, editor. NY: H.W. Wilson Co., 1943, p. 137.