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White, Carl M. – 1976
The growth of libraries and of technical education in the middle of the 19th century led to the organization of Melvil Dewey's School of Library Economy in 1887. The School offered a technical course to replace the apprenticeships then in favor. Its curriculum persisted as the model for library education through 1920. A break with the early form…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, History, Librarians, Libraries
Crowley, Bill – Library Journal, 2004
To transform humanists with Ph.D.'s into academic librarians is the purpose of an initiative recently launched by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The equivalent of an apprenticeship, the program revolves postdoctoral work in an academic library in lieu of earning a master's degree from a library and information studies…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Science, Library Education
