The School of Library Science was founded in 1887 at Columbia University. It left Columbia two years later to spend the next 37 in Albany as the New York State Library School and returned to Columbia in 1926. The School was permanently closed by the University in 1992.
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Trautman, Ray. A History of the School of Library Service, Columbia University. Columbia University Press, 1954.
Gaughan, Thomas M. Outrage over Columbia Decision to Close SLS. (Columbia University School of Library Service). American Libraries. Vol. 21. Chicago: American Library Association, 1990. (attached).
- Other Library Education programs have closed since 1976. [Stieg, Margaret F. (1991). "The Closing of Library Schools: Darwinism at the University". The Library Quarterly. 61 (3): 266–272.}