Carol A. Nemeyer

{{Short description|American librarian}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Carol A. Nemeyer

|image=CarolNemeyer.png

| office = President of the American Library Association

| term_start = 1982

| term_end = 1983

| predecessor = Elizabeth W. Stone

| successor = Brooke E. Sheldon

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|01|29}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2008|06|30|1929|01|29}}

| death_place = Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

| nationality = American

| occupation = Librarian

| alma_mater = Berea College

}}

Carol Anmuth Nemeyer (January 29, 1929 – June 30, 2008)Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, US: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. was an American librarian and a president of the American Library Association from 1982 to 1983.{{cite web|title=ALA's Past Presidents|url=http://www.ala.org/aboutala/history/past|website=American Library Association|accessdate=15 March 2016}} she married Lieutenant Commander Sheldon Nemeyer on September 23, 1950.{{cite news|title=Marriage Announcement|work=New York Times|date=September 24, 1950|page=24}}

As ALA president, Nemeyer set up a commission to "call national attention to problems threatening broad and equal opportunities for public access to information, including obvious questions of library support." The Commission on Freedom and Equality of Access to Information was chaired by Dan Lacy of McGraw-Hill.{{cite journal|title=Voting with Our Feet; ALA's Return to Chicago for Annual Conference Sets Registration Record|journal=American Libraries|date=July 1985|volume=16|url=https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-3838442/voting-with-our-feet-ala-s-return-to-chicago-for|accessdate=16 March 2016}}

Nemeyer graduated from Berea College and the Columbia University School of Library Service. She worked as the librarian at the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company before she joined the staff of the Association of American Publishers in the early 1970s. In 1977, she joined the Library of Congress as the associate librarian for national programs.{{cite web|title=Freedom to Read Foundation honors Carol Nemeyer with memorial fund|url=http://www.ala.org/news/news/pressreleases2008/July2008/ftrf|website=American Library Association|accessdate=16 March 2016|date=July 29, 2008}}

Carol and her husband Sheldon Nemeyer retired in 1986 and lived on a boat, sailing the Caribbean from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.{{cite journal|title=Carol Nemeyer flies flag for libraries on high seas|journal=Library Journal|date=March 15, 1986|volume=111|issue=5|page=14}}