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Dissertation Information for Patricia Brown Pond

NAME:
- Patricia Brown Pond

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Chicago (USA) (1982)

ADVISORS:
- None

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Inspected

Title: THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL LIBRARIANS: THE ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIANS, 1896-1951

Abstract:
The study traces the origins of the American Association of School
Librarians (AASL) , formerly the School Libraries Section of the American
Library Association (ALA) and now an ALA division, and documents and explains
the development of AASL as the only national professional association for school
librarians in the United States. The study focuses on AASL as an example of
the role of a professional association in promoting a specialization in library
service, school library service, and a specialization in librarianship, school
librarianship. Particular emphasis is given to issues that faced the school
library field between 1896 and 1951 and to the role of various National Education
Association (NEA), National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and
ALA organizations which promoted school library service in meeting these -issues.
Only one organization promoting school libraries developed in NCTE, its shortlived
(1913-1919) Library Section. In NEA and ALA several organizations and
one joint committee, the Joint Committee of NEA and ALA, developed. The NEAaffiliated
organizations included the Library Department (1896-1924) and the
Department of Secondary Education's Library Committee. The ALA-affiliated
groups included: (1) the Committee on Cooperation with NEA, appointed in 1896,
a committee which led to the development of both the Education Committee, later
the School Libraries Committee, and the Joint Committee of NEA and ALA; (2) the
Normal and High School Librarians' Round Table; and (3) the School Libraries
Section which became AASL in 1944; (4) the Board on Library Service to Children
,and Young People (BLSCYP); and (5) the Division of Libraries of Children and
Young People (DLCYP). AASL, whether as the School Libraries Section or as
AASL, was a section of the latter ALA division from 1941 through 1950. Because
the study focuses on historical questions of the origins and development of
AASL, the methodology employed is the historical method. Concepts from the
sociological literature on social movements, organizations, and professional
associations are utilized in analyzing the history of AASL as a case study in
the development of a professional association and in identifying benchmarks
and patterns typical of the development of such associations. Particula'r attention
is given to consideration of the school library movement as a social
movement, professional associations as organizations, professional associations
and the school library movement, and identification of goals and leaders in the
school movement set against a background of trends in education and librarianship
during the years 1896-1951.

MPACT Scores for Patricia Brown Pond

A = 0
C = 4
A+C = 4
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
calculated 2008-01-31 06:15:19

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