Research and Education for Library and Information Science: Waples in Retrospect.

Rayward, W. Boyd

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Publication Date: 1986

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Research and Education for Library and Information Science: Waples in Retrospect.

Rayward, W. Boyd

Library Quarterly, v56 n4 p348-59 Oct 1986

Argues that the academic goals and commitment to interdisciplinary research as a rationale for the new University of Chicago Graduate Library School as described by Douglas Waples in "Library Quarterly" (1931) have yet to be fully achieved. It is concluded that a new graduate library school ought to be reinvented. (Author/EM)

Descriptors: Graduate Study, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Library Education, Library Research, Library Schools, Library Science, Research

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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