Edward G. Holley

Edward G. Holley (November 26, 1927 – February 18, 2010) was an American librarian, library historian and educator. Holley graduated from David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in English. In 1951 he graduated from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, Tennessee with a master's in library science. Holley went on to receive his Ph.D. in library science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1961. He wrote, Charles Evans : American Bibliographer.

Holley began his professional career at the University of Houston and worked there for nine years. In 1972 he moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he accepted the position of dean and professor in the School of Information and Library Science. He remained dean until 1985, and was a professor from 1989 to 1995, when he retired.

Holley was president of the American Library Association (ALA) from 1974–75. He was honored with the Association's Melvil Dewey Medal in 1983 and the Joseph W. Lippincott Award in 1987.

He wrote Raking the Historic Coals : The A.L.A. Scrapbook of 1876.

In 1994 the volume, For the Good of the Order: Essays in Honor of Edward G. Holley, was published in recognition of his career.

The Edward G. Holley Papers, 1970-2001, are at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.