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The University of Chicago Graduate Library School (GLS) was established in 1928 to develop a program for the graduate education of librarians with a focus on research. [1] Housed for a time in the Joseph Regenstein Library , the GLS closed in 1989 when the University decided to promote information studies instead of professional education.
Education for librarianship, including for paraprofessional library workers, varies around the world, and has changed over time. In recent decades, many institutions offering librarianship education have changed their names to reflect the shift from print media to electronic media, and to information contained outside of traditional libraries.
Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is an American librarian and administrator. An archives and special collections expert, Evangelestia-Dougherty was the executive director of the Chicago-based Black Metropolis Research Consortium from 2011 to 2013 and the director of collections and services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 2013 to 2015.
The University of Chicago Extension Division Library School was one of the pioneering training programs for librarians in the United States. The library school was a section within the Extension Division's Class-Study Department. [1] It closed in 1903 after receiving controversial criticisms from the American Library Association.
A library school is an institution of higher learning specializing in the professional training of librarians. As of 14 February 2022 [update] there are 64 American Library Association -accredited Library science programs in Canada and the United States [ 1 ] and as of July 2014 [update] , 16 UK institutions offering CILIP -accredited programmes.
She directed the national Knapp School Libraries Project for the American Association of School Librarians (1963–1968) which had received $1,130,000 to raise the standards of school libraries. [2] Sullivan served on the faculties of the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago Graduate Library School.
The Library Quarterly was established in January 1931, the year that Lee Pierce Butler joined the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, which was where library science as the academic study of the relationship between books and users was originally conceived. Thus, its publication history parallels the existence of library science as a ...
Neo-Aristotelianism is a view of literature and rhetorical criticism propagated by the Chicago School [1] — Ronald S. Crane, Elder Olson, Richard McKeon, Wayne Booth, and others — which means: "A view of literature and criticism which takes a pluralistic attitude toward the history of literature and seeks to view literary works and critical ...