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.
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MPACT Scores for Patricia Brown Pond A = 0
C = 4
A+C = 4
T = 0
G = 0
W = 0
TD = 0
TA = 0
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