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Melvil Dewey: The Professional Educator and His Heirs.

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Miksa, Francis L. – Library Trends, 1986

Assesses Melvil Dewey's role in establishing and shaping formal education for librarianship. Highlights include Dewey and library education through 1885; impact of Columbia College; Dewey's educational views (rationalization for library work, qualifications of a librarian, personal qualifications and college education, technical qualifications and…

Descriptors: Curriculum, Employment Qualifications, Higher Education, History

The Socialization of Library and Information Science Students: Reflections on a Century of Formal Education for Librarianship.

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Weigand, Wayne A. – Library Trends, 1986

Overview of significant changes in library education during last century discusses example of Clara Mable Brooks, 1912 graduate of Illinois State Library School; literature on professionalism; librarianship and cultural and intellectual authority; character of library science students; ideology of "library spirit"; authority and quality…

Descriptors: Academic Standards, College Students, Curriculum, Higher Education