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3 unusual facts about Lee Pierce Butler


Lee Butler

Lee Pierce Butler (1884–1953), librarian at the University of Chicago

Lee Pierce Butler

Butler worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago from 1916 to 1919, and went on to lead its John M. Wing Foundation on the History of Printing.

He was one of the first to use the term "library science" (along with S. R. Ranganathan), by which he meant the scientific study of books and users, and was a leader in the new social-scientific approach to the field in the 1930s and 1940s.



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