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School of Library and Information Studies
This month, UW-Madison's School of Library and Information Studies celebrates their 100th anniversary. What started out as a summer school library program has grown into a program that educates a wide range of information professionals. Check out these images, going back to the program's beginnings.
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Summer Session, 1906
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This would have been the last summer school only class. The full-time school started in the fall.Lousie Robbins, UW-Madison
Foyer of Library School, 1913
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The School occupied the second floor of the Madison Free Library, on Carroll Street.Louise Robbins, UW-Madison
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Director Gilbert Doane, who was also director of Memorial Library. Louise Robbins, UW-Madison
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Seminar, March 28, 1960
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The faculty member in this photo is Herbert Sewell, the man at the far left with the book in front of him. But who are the others? Louise Robbins, UW-Madison
The person sitting with his back to the right-hand window with glasses and black tie is, of course, Jack Clarke.Bill Williamson, Madison, WI
Could the woman sitting under the bulletin board, fifth from the left, be Natalie Tinkham? Picture resembles her.Anonymous, Madison, WI
Ca. 1912
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This is a photo of a cataloging class for the School of Library and Information Studies in the 1920s-1930s. I believe this image is also on the walls around the School of Library and Information Studies on the 4th floor of H.C. WhiteMary Hitchcock, Madison, WI
Yes, this is on the wall in large format, and I have always loved it! Look at the natural LIGHT, the workspace, the hair and dress (and compare the posture with the last picture in the selections on this site!) I know full well life in cataloging was never golden, but it's a great image of "the good old days."JoAnn Tiedemann, Madison, WI
I am a relatively new faculty member at SLIS and am graced with one of the desks in this photo. Wouldn't you love to know what the woman in the second row from the front, flush right in the photograph, is reading? Something in the expression on her face tells me she isn't cataloging at the moment.Catherine Arnott Smith, Madison, WI
Book mending practice, 1923
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The man in the middle, pointing to a card held by a young woman, is John J. Boll, who came to the School in 1957 fresh out of the University of Illinois doctoral program and retired from the School in 1992. Many generations learned cataloging from Professor Boll.Louise Robbins, UW-Madison
Louise is right about John Boll. Is the gent to Boll's left Jim Krikelas?Charley Seavey, SLIS PhD, 1987
Columbia, MO
I'm pretty sure the short woman standing next to the man holding up the filmstrip? or microfilm? is E. Bernice Gibson, an instructor for many years. And I believe the building in which this picture was taken was the old library school on Sterling Court. "Aunt Bernice" as she was when I was married to her nephew, lived about a block away from Sterling Ct. in an apartment piled everywhere with books. The Bolls were close friends of hers.Anonymous, Madison, WI
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This building, 811 State Street, was on Sterling Court--across the mall from the Historical Society--where part of the Humanities Building now sits.Louise Robbins, UW-Madison
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The man in the photo is Charlie Duel Hurt, III. PhD in 1982. He was my student and has just returned to Wisconsin and is now the Provost and Vice Chan. at UW River Falls. PS his name is Charlie and please do not change it to "Charles", Which even the information office at River Falls has done. Charlie recently told me he has given up on trying to stop that change from taking place. In the photo he is sitting at one of the old machines we used in our online classes where he was my TA and conducted the lab for those classes.Dick Walker, UW-Madison
Early OCLC workstations; those were the days...Victor Gorodinsky, Madison, WI