Jr. Myron J. Smith

A professional librarian and historian since 1966, Tusculum College Emeritus Library Director and Professor Myron J. "Jack" Smith, Jr. arrived in Tennessee in 1990. He had previously served a 15-year tenure as Library Director and Professor at Salem College (now Salem-International University) in West Virginia, as well as holding posts in Maryland and Indiana. Prof. Smith is an internationally known author and bibliographer on subjects on topics relating primarily to naval history, although he has dabbled in subjects as diverse as baseball and the airline industry. The author of 90 volumes of bibliography and history, Smith has been the recipient of a variety of literary honors and awards and remains the only American to have received Germany's Richard Franck Preis for historical bibliography. In 2016, his "Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters" was named Best Print Reference Title of 2015 by "Library Journal."