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Illinois-Urbana.
taken from the website of the Illinois Library before the physical library closure in 2009.
January 14, 2009
Dear friends and colleagues,
As you know, we are developing a new service model for the Library & Information Science Library. The COMM-LISS team submitted an interim report with a set of recommendations in November. The University Library’s Executive Committee reviewed the report in December and asked the team to move ahead with an implementation plan, which is now close to being finalized. We want to share the broad outlines of the coming changes with you now.
- The physical LIS Library will close. Its last day of operation will be Friday, May 15.
- Sue Searing and Sandy Wolf will continue to work full-time on building the LIS collections and serving information-seekers.
- The books and journals currently housed in 306 Main Library will be distributed to appropriate departmental libraries, with the majority of the print collection going into the Main Stacks. Seldom-used materials and works that are duplicated in the library’s electronic collections are being transferred to the Oak Street facility.
- Sue and Sandy will have office space both at GSLIS and in the Main Library. Lori Carroll, long-time LIS Library staff member, has transferred to the Chemistry Library. Patsy Inskip has joined the LIS Library staff on a half-time basis through May.
- During spring semester, two independent study students will collaborate with Sue to identify and organize content for an enhanced subject portal to replace the existing departmental library website.
- The library will continue to acquire LIS serials and other publications in electronic format; however, it will NOT cease acquiring print, since much information in the field is still available only in print.
You may recall that the Library’s Budget Group Plus recommended merging the LIS Library into the Communications Library to create a “Media and Information Studies” library. After further study by the COMM-LISS team, it was decided that the two libraries will pursue new service models independently. For more details, please read the interim report and other documents generated by the team: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/nsm/comm_lis
A great many people have contributed to the planning, including members of the COMM-LISS team (Katie Newman, Sue Searing, Lori Miller, Lisa Romero, Linda Smith, Brant Houston, and JoAnn Jacoby). We thank everyone who submitted written feedback, spoke up at forums, completed surveys, circulated petitions, etc. As we move into the implementation phase, we ask for your continued support.
During spring semester, the LIS Library will remain open as a full-service departmental library. However, work is already underway to facilitate the transition, and these activities will accelerate in the coming months. We ask for your patience and cooperation as we ready the collections for transfer and dedicate time to developing virtual content and services.
Sincerely,
Paula Kaufman, Dean of Libraries
Sue Searing, Library & Information Science Librarian.
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Columbia
Olha della Cava, Walter Barnard, and Beth Posner provided us with the history of the library of the Columbia University School of Library Service in their 1991 article (Library Quarterly 61: 41-60). The details provided in that article clearly established the library of the Columbia School of Library Service as the foremost library school library in the world from 1887 to 1990. The 1990 collection they described was the most impressive indeed with 100,000 volumes of monographs, periodicals, and pamphlets, and 4,000 microforms, the latter including over 900 doctoral dissertations on librarianship from other universities to complement their complete holdings of their own dissertations. The library held 3,000 current serial subscriptions. Its serial holdings went far beyond the basic journals and included newsletters and other serial publications from libraries, library schools, and other library-related groups such as library supply companies.
Dictionary catalog of the library of the School of Library Service Columbia University.
by Columbia University. School of Library Service. Library.1962.[ followed in 1976 by a four-volume supplement.]
The Library of the School of Library Service, Columbia University,
New York City by Darthula Wilcox Librarian, Columbia University School of Library Service.
The Library of the School of Library Service of Columbia University is older than the School itself. Melvil Dewey, knowing for several years that formal classes for the training of librarians would begin in 1887, began collecting materials to be used in instruction(l). The American Library Association had since 1876 been gathering together a “Bibliothecal Museum” (composed of forms, appliances, and explanatory pamphlets), and this also was deposited at Columbia in anticipation of the opening of the School(2).
[OP #20, 1951. pdf here
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See also:
Institute on the Role of the Library School Library in Education for Librarianship, May 2-4, 1971 [proceedings] Sponsored by Division of Librarianship, Emory University, in cooperation with School of Library Service, Atlanta University [and] Discussion Group for Library Science Libraries, A.L.A. Library Education Division.
Also (announced January 2005): ACRL’s Library and Information Science (LIS) Collections Discussion Group has created a new electronic discussion list. Librarians who work with LIS collections and/or serve users in the area of LIS are encouraged to join the list to share information and provide and receive professional support.