"Libraries are not made; they grow".

Iain Bates
University Librarian from 1982-1992.

Maurice P. Boone
University Librarian from 1944-1950.

J. M. Cramp
University President Dr. Cramp donated over 1000 volumes from his personal collection to the Library in the late 1890s.

Harry W. Ganong
University Librarian from 1951-1976. During his tenure, the modern university library was implemented, particularly after 1965 with the opening of the Vaughan Library.

Andre Guay
University Librarian from 1993-1995.

Jean Steadman Haley Elliott
First trained librarian at Acadia University.

Isobel Horton
Acadia graduate and long-time staff member in the Library's cataloguing department, she became the University Librarian in 1976 until 1982. Mrs. Horton volunteered at the Library after her retirement right up until she passed away in 2006.

Mary Kinley Ingraham
University Librarian from 1917-1944. Ms. Ingraham was integral to the development of Acadia's University Library and the founding of the Maritime Library Institute.

Watson Kirkconnell
Dr. Kirkconnell was a professor, scholar, and the ninth President of Acadia University. The Special Collections reading room is named after Dr. Kirkconnell and houses his private collection, degrees, awards and academic regalia.

Sara Lochhead
Current University Librarian from 2002-2013.

Lorraine McQueen
University Librarian from 1995-2001.

Harold Campbell Vaughan
Harold C. Vaughan was the son of Mr. Harold S. Vaughan, a surgeon and professor at Columbia and New York Universities. His father earned an honorary degree from Acadia in 1948 and through a generous donation years later, helped build the Vaughan Memorial Library in his son's memory.

Esther Clark Wright
Dr. Wright, a graduate of Acadia University, was a renowned author and historian. The Acadia Archives was renamed the Esther Clark Wright Archives in October 1988 in honour of Dr. Wright.