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O. Lee Shiflett, Ph.D. Department Chair
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olshifle@uncg.edu
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Teaching areas : Cataloging
Research areas : Cataloging and classification, history of books and libraries,and information policy issues.
Selected Publications:
"Some Speculation on the Future of the Book." The Acquisitions Librarian 25 (2001), pp. 35-49.
Louis Shores: Defining Educational Librarianship. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996.
"Hampton, Fisk, and Atlanta: The Foundations, the American Library Association, and Library Education for Blacks, 1925-1941." (with Robert S. Martin). Libraries and Culture 31 (Spring 1996), pp. 299-325. Also published in Libraries and Philanthropy: Library History Seminar IX, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 30 March-1 April, 1995. Austin: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996), pp. 299-325.
"The Government as Publisher: An Historical Review." Library and Information Science Research 4 (Summer 1982), pp. 115-135. Reprinted in Reference and Information Services: A Reader for Today. Edited by Bill Katz. (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986), pp. 147-167.
The Origins of American Academic Librarianship. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1981
Selected Presentations:
"Sense-Making and Library History" presented before the Library History Special Interest Group of ALISE at its Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA on January 28, 1999.
"Louis Shores and Library History" presented at the 50th anniversary meeting of the ALA Library History Round Table at the Library of Congress, June 27, 1998.
"'You Can't Polish a Pumpkin': The Role of Early Library Education in Selecting Librarians" presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association's Library History Round Table, Dallas, TX, June 25, 1984.
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