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Sesquicentennial Landmarks- What are yours?

  • 1.  Sesquicentennial Landmarks- What are yours?

    Posted Oct 05, 2024 08:07 AM
    Recommendations of the National Advisory Commission were incorporated into legislation (PL 91-345) that established the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science in 1970.
    I've been thinking a lot about the ALA sesquicentennial. When I was studying at the University of Chicago, Graduate Library School-- around the time of the ALA Centennial-- one of my professors was Herman H. Fussler who served on the National Advisory Commission on Libraries -NCAL- (1966-1970). NCAL's recommendations were published in 1969 and were used in the legislation to create NCLIS which eventually provided the foundation for IMLS.
    United States National Advisory Commission on Libraries. 1969. Libraries at Large: Tradition, Innovation, and the National Interest; the Resource Book Based on the Materials of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries.' Edited by Douglas M. Knight and E. Shepley Nourse. New York: Bowker.
    I added a section to Wikipedia about the report: National Commission on Libraries and Information Science - Wikipedia
    What landmark publications do people here at ALA Connect identify as foundational to library services in the last 50 or so years?


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    Kathleen de la Peña McCook
    Distinguished University Professor
    School of Information
    University of South Florida
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