Liú Zhīlín 劉之遴 (478–549), zì Sīzhēn 思貞, native of Nányáng 南陽 An-zhòng 安眾, was one of the most learned bibliographic scholars of the Liáng court. Biographies in the Liáng shū 梁書 40 and Nán shǐ 南史 50 record his early appointment to the imperial secretariat under Liáng Wǔdì 梁武帝 (r. 502–549) and his prolonged work in the imperial library cataloging and collating the Liáng book collection. He held a long series of provincial governorships and court secretarial posts, ending as Tàicháng qīng 太常卿 in his later years. His scholarly importance derives chiefly from his collations of variant editions of the Hàn shū 漢書 and the Hòu Hàn shū 後漢書 against an inherited collection of pre-Suí witnesses — a foundational moment for medieval Chinese textual scholarship. His son Liú Zhèn 劉縝 continued his bibliographic work. In 549, in flight from the Hóu Jǐng 侯景 rebellion, Liú Zhīlín returned to Jīngzhōu 荊州 where he died at age 72. CBDB id 171469 records his death year as 533, but the Liáng shū biography and the prevailing scholarship give 549 — the present note follows the Liáng shū. He is the credited author of the Shén lù 神錄 (KR3l0154), a lost five-juàn zhìguài collection now surviving only in fragments.