Walter C. Allen and Robert F. Delzell, eds. Ideals and Standards: The History of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- James V. Carmichael, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Library and Information Science, provides abundant evidence of why the Illinois
program has thrived while other equally prestigious schools such as Columbia
and Chicago have folded, for while Illinois has remained on the cutting edge
of research and technological change, it has never entirely abandoned the grass
roots of librarianship. The school has also been blessed with strong leadership,
although the personalities of the school receive somewhat short shrift (and no
criticism) in this collection. As Walter C. Allen remarks in the introduction to
the current volume, these essays are intended to "put the new developments
[for example, technology and information science] into the context of the
School's total history" (p. iii). Readers interested in additional information on
directors and faculty who shaped the school-most of whom receive only cursory
treatment here-or in "local color," would be well advised to consult
Laurel A. Grotzinger, The Power and the Dignity: Librarianship and Katherine Sharp
(New York: Scarecrow, 1966); and two previous publications concerning the
school's history, Fifty Years of Education for Librarianship, University of Illinois
Contributions to Librarianship, no. 1 (Urbana: University of lllinois Press,
1943); and Barbara M. Slanker. ed., Reminiscences: Seventy-Five Years of a Library
School (Urbana: University of Illinois, Graduate Library School, 1969).
Walter C. Allen and Robert F. Delzell, eds. Ideals and Standards: The History of the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- The Library Quarterly 63: 388-89.
- Language: English
- Date: 1993
- Keywords
- Book review, Library education, Urbana, Illinois, Library history