Susanne Humphrey

Susanne Marguerite Humphrey (c. 1944–January 8, 2019) was an American medical librarian who worked at the National Library of Medicine.

Career
Humphrey worked at the National Library of Medicine for 43 years before retiring in 2009. Humphrey wrote the textbook, Databases a Primer for Retrieving Information by Computer in the mid-1980s. At the National Library of Medicine, Humphrey led a project to automatically index journal articles according to Medical Subject Headings, and her research led to the development of public, web-based tools for automated indexing.

Personal life
Humphrey's husband was Andrew Clifton Humphrey Sr. She died in January 2019 aged 74.

Awards and honors
Humphrey earned the 1988 Best JASIS Paper award with co-author Nancy E. Miller for their paper "Knowledge-Based Indexing of the Medical Literature: The Indexing Aid Project". In 1994, Humphrey was elected a AAAS Fellow.