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Stauffer, Suzanne M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2015
In 1897, the University of Chicago Extension Division began offering what we today would call "bibliographic instruction" under the aegis of the Bureau of Information of the Illinois State Library Association. The program was expanded under university librarian Zella Allen Dixson, and by 1900 was designed to train librarians and library…
Descriptors: Educational History, Gender Issues, Power Structure, Gender Bias
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Engle, Michael O. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1986
Examines factors of philosophical significance to college librarianship that provide direction for daily decisions: growth of bibliographic instruction--role of metaphysical and metaphorical; need to integrate values of liberal education; understanding of social context--humanistic roots; and understanding of librarian's role of intervenor,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Liberalism, Librarians