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3 unusual facts about Library science


Classification theory

For the practice and science of classification see Taxonomy and Library science

Kathleen Willis

She also earned a bachelor’s in Human Service Administration from Elmhurst College and a master’s degree in Library and Information Services from the University of Illinois during her school board tenure.

Vilnius University Faculty of Communication

On 18 of June, 1991 following the assessment of rapid development of information services and access to information, and the need for cohesive communication research in Lithuania, the Vilnius University Council passed a decision to establish the Faculty of Communication on the basis of the former Departments of Library science, Information Systems, Book Science and Bibliography, Radio and Television Journalism, and Press Journalism.


Audre Lorde

While studying library science, Lorde supported herself by working various odd jobs such as factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, moving out of Harlem to Stamford, Connecticut and beginning to explore her lesbian sexuality.

Lee Pierce Butler

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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Barbara G. Peters

She was named a Library of Congress Intern on receipt of her Masters in Library Science, and is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada, The British Crime Writers Association, and Mystery Writers of America.

Fernando Báez

Báez has a degree in education and a docorate in library science and worked for several years at the University of the Andes in Mérida.

Herbert White

Herbert S. White (born 1927), American professor of library science

Lawrence Clark Powell

After retiring from UCLA in 1966, Powell moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1971, where – as Professor in Residence for nearly two decades - he was instrumental in the growth of the University of Arizona Graduate School of Library Science, now known as the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science.

Liz Danforth

Danforth completed a master's degree in Information and Library Science (University of Arizona, 2008), and was one of a dozen hand-selected "gaming experts" who participated in the American Library Association's million-dollar grant-funded project to explore how gaming can be used to improve problem-solving and literacy skills, and to develop a model gaming "toolbox" for gaming in libraries.

Margaret Hayes Grazier

She continued on with her education the following year earning a Diploma in Library Science from the University of Denver (1938) followed by completing her M.A. degree in Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1941.

Marya Zaturenska

She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University; she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science.

Pansy Kidd Middle School

In 1912, Pansy Ingle came to Poteau, a graduate of Indiana University with a Masters' Degree in English and Library Science.

Paul S. Dunkin

During this period Dunkin was influenced by one of his professors, William Oldfather, to take up the study of Library Science.

Reynol Junco

He is an associate professor of library science at Purdue University and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

The Athenian School

Inspired by the Oxford system of individual colleges sharing common resources, his original plan was a series of four campuses sharing a library, science classrooms, athletic facilities, a performing-arts complex, and other facilities.