Women who promoted library services to children in the United States in the late nineteenth century introduced the systematic use of survey research on library practice to the field of professional librarianship. They created a series of qualitative survey-based reports, the "Reading of the Young" reports, which were presented at ALA conferences…

This bibliography was compiled from listings in Dissertation Abstracts International, Library Literature, Library Quarterly, Library Science Dissertations and David H. Eyman's pamphlet Doctoral Dissertations in Library Science. An attempt was made to locate in the five sources those doctoral studies which were either accepted by library schools or…