Lawrence Sidney Thompson (1916–1986) worked at the University of Kentucky as the Director of Libraries and as a faculty member in the classics department. He wrote extensively on the processes of printing and publication. Thompson also researched processes for cataloging materials, frequently corresponding with European colleagues. [1]
He was director of the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky from 1948 to 1963. [2]
He was the author of Human Skin, [3] a paper on Anthropodermic bibliopegy.