Edith Mabel Nelson (September 26, 1889 - April 20, 1942) was a librarian known for being the first Deaf woman in the Gallaudet Hall of Fame, and the last Deaf library director at Gallaudet University. Nelson taught at several schools for the Deaf after graduation, in St. John Canada, St. Augustine, Florida and finally in Washington D. C. working at the Kendall School. She was appointed as a librarian to Gallaudet in 1919 and worked there for the rest of her life, though a 1921 directory of special libraries also shows her working at the Columbia Institution for the Deaf library which was Gallaudet's corporate name at the time. In 1927 the American Library Association's Board of Education for Librarianship believed she was the only educator teaching library methods to deaf students calling