Page Ackerman, 93; Was University Librarian at UCLA

Page Ackerman, 93, a former university librarian at UCLA who was one of the first women in the country to head such a large and complex library system, died Feb. 28 of congestive heart failure at an assisted-living facility in Duarte.

Ackerman joined the UCLA library staff in 1949 from the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Va., where she had been assistant librarian since 1945. In 1954, she was appointed assistant university librarian, with responsibilities for personnel and budget, and in 1965 she became associate university librarian. In 1973 she was named university librarian, a position she held until her retirement in 1977.

A native of Evanston, Ill., Ackerman enrolled in the first class to attend the Westwood campus of what was then named the Southern Branch of the University of California in 1929. She transferred as a junior to Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., on a physical education scholarship as a junior and earned a bachelor’s degree in English in 1933. She later earned a bachelor’s in library science from the University of North Carolina.