Betty Moys

Betty Moys
Born26 June 1928
Wickford, Essex
Died1 February 2002
NationalityEngland.
OccupationLibrarian

Elizabeth Moys (26 June 1928 – 1 February 2002)[1] was born in Wickford, Essex, England. She grew up in Kent, attended Sidcup County School for Girls and graduated from Queen Mary College in London (1949). One of her first jobs was at the Crayford Branch of the Kent County Library Service.[2] Shortly thereafter, she attended the Northwestern Polytechnic School of Librarianship and helped found the School of Librarianship Students’ Association. Following graduation in 1951, she worked as a reference librarian at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (1951) and as an Assistant Librarian at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (1952).[3]


Betty was involved with many professional organisations over the course of her career including the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), the Society of Indexers, the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), the American Society of Indexers, and the Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG).[4]

Moys Classification Scheme

Main article: Moys Classification Scheme
Moys Classification System

The Moys Classification Scheme for Law Books was published in 1968. Subsequent editions have been published since then, with a fifth edition published in 2012.[5] It is used primarily in legal libraries in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.[4]

References

  1. ^ "10 Australian Law Librarian 2002 In Memoriam Betty Moys Comment". Heinonline.org. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  2. ^ Tearle, Barbara (March 2002). "In Memoriam: Elizabeth Mary Moys 1928 to 2002". Legal Information Management. pp. 4–7. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  3. ^ "Memorial: Elizabeth Mary Moys" (PDF). aallnet.org. Law Library Journal. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  4. ^ a b "IALS Library". Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  5. ^ Moys, Elizabeth M. (2012). Diana Morris; Helen Garner; Sara Wheeler (eds.). Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials, 5th ed. Berlin ; Boston: De Gruyter Saur. ISBN 978-3110254532.